submitted by Jim Lindsey on September 25, 2007

Like one of you said, high school was indeed a funny time for us.  I laughed a lot during my West Valley High School days.  But I had to be careful with what I did while there.  My father seemed to have a"mole" working at the school 'cause he knew exactly what I was doing at any given time during the day!  He was the one I worried about the most!

Did any of you know that I worked a whole summer for Gay Most and her husband at their home on South 38th Ave?  Yep, I got to be inside their house as well as work in the yard.  There are some interesting things about those two that I would be glad to share at the reunion.  Like the trap door in their bathroom and the underground passage that led to another trap door in their bedroom!

And those horrid accounting classes engineered by Mr. Nosema!  I remember changing the numbers on the chlkboard so his columns no longer added correctly!  He would spend class time trying to figure out what was wrong.  Yes, Coleen Knoble did throw fresh eggs at the chalkboard AND at Mr. Nieuwsma while he sat at his desk.  She had those eggs hidden in that huge woven handbag from Mexico!

One time we put scotch tape on the movie projector lens in Bilogy class.  Mr. Burnside spent half the class period trying to bring the movie into focus!  Jerry Tatro stuck a screwdriver in the outlet plug on the lab table during lecture time.  Fireworks everywhere!  I remember Mr. Burnside making a "bee line" for Jerry yelling all the while, "I wish you got electrocuted!"

I carried the key to the room where the popcorn machine was stored.  I remember popping corn during class time.  I would forge Marge Carson's signature on my hall passes and go wherever I wanted.  Tally, didn't I popsome corn for you one time?  I think so!

Marla Thomas, you used to turn in bogus book reports!  Books that were never written, titles and authors were of your own making!  And you got better grades than I did!

Small wonder I had to take an extra year at YVCC to make up for what I did not learn at good ole WVHS!

However, Mr. Craig was an excellent grammar teacher and I learned a lot from him.  Hmm, was that the time George Ruff put alive mouse in Karen Thornton's purse..........?