Where did you go to school? Give some details about what was school like for you and some of your memorable experiences.

I attended school at Kiona Benton in Benton City for all 12 years.  I always walked to school.  I was a little envious of the kids that got to ride the bus.  All 12 grades were in the same school complex.  The majority of the kids that I started school with were in my graduating class.  We had approx. 50 kids in our graduating class.  I always enjoyed school.  It was never hard.  I especially enjoyed the math competitions.  You got to stand up and then stand next to the desk of the student behind you.  The teacher would ask a times table questions like 9 times 9.  Whoever answered first got to move to the next students desk.  I always tried to move all the way around the room.  Janet Hedgepath was my biggest challenge.  She was quick!

I enjoyed getting hot lunch.  Mom would make each child take turns getting hot lunch for a week.  The rest of us had our lunches packed at home.  My favorite was mashed potatoes with hamburger gravy and scalloped potatoes and ham.  We also had a milkshake machine that took a ten cent token.  They were the world's best.  My favorite games at recess in elementary school were "Red Rover", jump rope, and Jacks.

Middle school was not very memorable.

High school was fun.  Got to go to football games at night. Dances afterwards, sock hops.  I did not participate in girls sports.  There weren't many of them and I wasn't athletic.  I was a member of the girls drill team that performed at half time during basketball games.  I was a member of FBLA, which was Future Business Leaders of America.  As a senior I received the top award at the Senior Recognition night.  I was asked to quit Swing Choir because I had such a poor voice!  Traumatized.  My group of girl buddies enjoyed skipping chorus, which was just before lunch period.  We would get in Pam Harmon's studebaker and drive to Richland, get a fifty cent lunch at the Arctic Circle Drive-In  and then drive to Zip's to eat it.  Zip' was more expensive so we couldn't afford it.  Sometimes we would stop and buy Swisher Sweet cigars and smoke them on the way to Richland.  We were real rebels.  My grade point at graduation was 2.8.  I thought it was pretty good.  Mom and dad didn't put much pressure on getting really high grades.  As long as we didn't get a D we were in good standing.

I never attended a Kegger. I was too afraid that Clyde and Theresa would catch me.  I didn't drink during high school but I did smoke cigarettes.  Didn't smoke marajuana either during high school either.  I saved that for after high school.  I wasn't adventurous enough in high school to risk getting in trouble.