Mom sues over yearbook photo

[BahamaMama]

Are you sure there were 1,000+ in your actual class? Or in the whole high school? Where the hell did you go to HS?

I'll take this one for ya Reds. He went to Davenport West a few years after me, and his class was cut down to only 1000+ because another high school opened. and yes, it was CLASS, not entire school. My graduating class of 1978 was 2000+. It was the largest graduating class ever in the state of Iowa. (high school was 10th-12th back then tho)

My daughter goes there now, i'll have to ask her if she knows what the school population is these days... do know it's still HUGE.

edit: hmmmm, reds, north hadn't opened yet when you were at west, had it?? I may be thinking of wood opening to take some slack from williams.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

It's not quantity it's quality--
This was before they had diff classes(5A- 4A ect) per enrollment--and this team from little town of less than 1000 went through big schools in Chicago like hot knife through butter---

The year was 1964.
Lyndon B. Johnson was president, a Hershey?s candy bar sold for 5 cents and the Beatles topped the record charts.
In Illinois, a significant event was taking place that would capture the hearts and spirits of basketball fans for years to come.
The Cobden Appleknockers, a high school team from a town of only 900 people in Southern Illinois, was the name on every basketball fan's lips.
The team had made it to the Illinois state basketball tournament, beating rivals that had more people in their high schools than Cobden had in its entire town.
Just to put this into perspective: This was before high schools were divided into classes based on school enrollment.
Dubbed ?the Pride of Southern Illinois, ? ?the People's Choice? and ?the Amazing Appleknockers? the boys reached the state tournament in March 1964. The team lost 50-45 to Pekin in the final game.
But a curious phenomenon happened over the years.
Chuck Neal, a player on the 1964 team who is now an airline pilot, regularly runs into people who remember the Cobden Appleknockers.
They?ll often refer to Cobden as ?the tiny team that won the state tournament in 1964.?
?I used to correct people,? Neal said, ?not anymore

team photo >http://www.amazingappleknockers.com/

 

[redsfann]

Hi annie--

No, North didn't open until 1985 or so, and even after it opened the class sizes at West and Central didn't get much smaller once it did.

Remember having 5 minutes between classes?

I'd tell people about that and they wouldn't believe that 5 minutes a lot of the time wasn't enough to make it from one end of the building to the other----due to having to fight your way through the halls that were packed with students-- and dodge the 2 or more fistfights that always seemed to break out....