graduation class mottos

[Karl_K]

What was your unofficial class motto?

For 88 there was 2:

Love is good, sex is great we are the class of eighty eight

For the stoners:
beer is good, pot is great we are the class of eighty eight

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

We didn''t get one until last week (final exams) and now it''s "thank f*ck that is over."

 

[Upgradable]

I think ours was "Let''s get the he11 outa here!"

This summer we''re having our 30th reunion. The front of the invitation says..... "Get the he11 back here!!"

 

[packrat]

I was class of 93. I don''t think we had an unofficial motto. I graduated at semester anyway so they forgot about me for a lot of stuff!

 

[jewelz617]

"It''s all about YOU, 2002!"

Whoop.

 

[perry]

We didn''t have an unofficial motto.

But, our official motto was: "You ain''t seen nothing yet"

Which turned out to be true in so many different ways - starting from before graduation, to what happened on graduation day, and beyond.

When that phrase won the election - the school board decided to overrule and substitute what they thought was more appropriate (which was 27 words long).

We, as a class, made it clear that without our motto that there would not be a graduation ceremony (as the overwhelmingly vast majority would boycott it).

That was the first of several challenges with the school board.

Historically, graduation was held in the gym - which was always hot - and sometimes sweltering hot. We wanted an outdoors graduation at the local bassball park (where two city teams competed in a city team conference - and where the Jr High and HS baseball teams competed. That facility was remote from the school.

In the end, we compromised on an outdoor graduation at the HS track (which had some bleachers) with a backup of the gym if it rained.

There were several other "fights" as well... We - our class - wanted our graduation our way; and not some of the historically old traditions. We won on about half the items - but fought right up to the day before.

It was a beautiful outdoor graduation. Everyone loved it - and it instantly became the standard - including our changes (and about once a decade it rains and they use the gym).

But, it sure finished up with a doozy of an event - unplanned.

In all the "fighting" the school forgot to tell us that immediately after the graduation ceremony that we would have to turn in our graduation gowns to get our actual diploma certificate (they just handed out empty certificate holders on stage).

It was a nice and warm June day - and a variety of people decided that they didn''t need to wear anything under their graduation gowns...

Once we learned that we had to immediately turn in our gowns... a quick consensus developed among the affected students. We all turned in the gowns on the spot.

Somewhere between 10 and 15% of the class was running around the HS halls in their birthday suits (more female than male) while friends and family went home to fetch them clothing. School officials locked the doors to keep everyone else out. A lot of us (me included) went home in our underwear. A lot of fathers or brothers lent their daughters their shirt for the ride home (there was quite the proportion of women who did not wear bra''s).

Now most students got shirts or something from a relative before turning in the gown (and we changed in the locker rooms) so there was not a massive public display of skin - except for the ones who had nothing and decided to run around the halls.

You ain''t seen nothing yet... and they hadn''t. Anyway, now its a memory and a good laugh.

Who needs an unofficial motto when you have a really good official one - and a unified politically active student body to back it up.

Students these days are not nearly as politically active as we were.

Perry