Just out of curiosity, where did your father graduate high school?
 

My pop graduated from South East, of all places, back the late 50's. He never dreamed it would like it is now when he's almost 80. He says it's a shame because he was in a great part of the city back then.

Anyone else care to say?

The American school in Japan

I was briefly in Japan in 98. To say the least it wasn't an alive environment.

The people that lived there then kept moving Southeast. It's Lee's Summit now.

Northeast High in KC. My Grandparents lived right down the street on Chelsea. He went straight into the Navy back in 43.

Central High School, Kansas City, 1946. My mom graduated from Paseo a few years after.

Raytown South

Honaker High School in Honaker, Virginia.

Beattie (KS) High School Class of '45. Go Tigers!

In retirement I will be there. Can't some soon enough.

What would later be renamed Shawnee Mission North.

Back when he went there it looks like the place was about 97 white people, a black guy, his native wife, and their son, living on about a half of a square mile in the middle of nowhere.

My dad only made it to 8th grade before he went to work in the newspaper business at 15 years old.

Westport

My dad went here. Grew up a bit north of Fairyland Park. I remember driving by that when we'd visit my grandmother. It was a shitty neighborhood in the early 80's when we were heading that way.

My grandfather went there and graduated with Mr. K. He got to go to the owners suite for a couple of HS reunions.

Clayton KS
Last class ever graduated there & had biggest class in history of the school at 5. Not enough boys to play 8-man football.

Some small town in Washington state.

Oberlin, Kansas 41. He made it to his 70th reunion, a very small group.

Alton mo

Savannah Mo

Berlin, Germany

He didn't graduate. Orphaned at 13, headed out on his own to California at 14, joined the army at 17 to fight in WWII.

Damn son. That is a man right there.

Scott City 72.

From what I've been told he was. Was a Combat Engineer SGT in Burma during the war. Was stuck behind the line by himself for a couple weeks until he made it out. Also fought in the Korean war with the same outfit.
I wish I could have met him, he died six months after I was born.

My dad went to North Kansas City High School back in the early 50s.

He didn't

He joined the Air Force and got a GED

You got that right. Big balls on that guy

The Hill School '69

A tiny town in south-central Missouri. I think his graduating class was around 40 people.

My dad graduated from Northeast High School, class of 1960.

Andale (KS) 1970.

Somewhere in Queens.

In Raytown probably 78 or 79. Can't remember which school. He bought me a shirt a few years back. Blue jays are something.

Bronaugh, MO 1956

Excelsior Springs....early 1950's

Dropped out after the eighth grade sometime around 1960 and worked for 45 years before retiring. He still has a part time job. Raised 7 kids.

KC Central. It was all white then.

De La Salle HS in KCMO 1938 or 39. He had planned to play football and baseball at the University of Missouri and to study Chemistry, but enlisted in the US Army Aircorp right after HS and served as a Pilot in WWII.

He is the greatest Man I've ever known. RIP, Dad.

Pittsburg KS

Spring Hill, Ks.

:thumb:
Truly the 'Greatest Generation''

Excelsior Springs must have still been hopping back in those days.

Green City, MO. 1977

Next he's gonna be asking for our mothers' maiden names and the name of our first pets.

Miami Florida

Canton, KS.

This desolate place in Monett.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mo...tralschool.jpg

:hmmm:

Honestly have no idea. If I had to guess, I would say that it was somewhere around Springfield or Joplin.

Some place in Denver

Paris, Texas.

It's not like mine is a stretch to figure out.

Shawnee Mission South for my old man.

Smith Cotton Sedalia, MO

Rosedale

Joplin Senior HS I believe it was called back then.

Since then its split into 2 schools and then went back to one.

Carthage HS i think.

Probably knew my Uncle Harry.

by the way - I love that town for some reason.

Actually it was......with the Hall of Waters, the mineral baths, the McLeary-Thornton Hospital, the Mineral Water Bowl, the Elms Hotel. It was a pretty popular place.....

I haven't a clue.

God damn it. Why did you have to start this thread? Now I'm ridiculously homesick for a place I've never been.

Denison Hs in ks

Dubuque ia

Yep. Before I-35 bypassed them and pulled traffic to the west.

But he spent every weekend in Frontenac. :)

Heh. My dad was Milan around 1974 ish. My grandparents are buried in Green City

Ha! The first girl that let me play with her boobs moved to Paris Texas!! Tell her I said hi!! Also, kick her ass because she got me hooked on women:cuss:

Atlanta, Missouri. Probably had about ten people in his class, if that.

Did he wind up working for McDowells'? ROFL

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Compton Ca.

Marysville High School, Marysville, CA. 1958

Some of you might relate to this dumbassery.

My ol' man graduated from Lafayette high school in St. Joseph MO.
The dumbassery isn't from the area etc. It's from their stupid mascot. The "Lafayette Fighting Irish."

Lots of tough haggis-eating Frenchman or a bunch of Guinness drinking pussies? Who knows. You'd think they'd come up with a new mascot.

They were kind of the Radiator Springs (Disney reference here) of that time when I-35 was built.

A boarding school somewhere in the mountains in Switzerland...

My dad's dad died when he was 14. He dropped out to take care of his younger brothers and sisters until he joined the Marines in '66.

My "dad" was too much of a shithead to graduate.

You know what they say... the tree isn't far from where the apples fall.

:p just kidding