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And now for something fun to make you
feel young and old at the same time – a compilation of memories
from your classmates. Please submit your own!
We Remember…
Am Trad (Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. Brigleb, Mr. Croy and Mr. Youel)
TWIRP – how could we forget the poodle skirts, the kissing contest and all the drinking that
went on.
STUDENT NIGHT - Sha Na Na and all the other talents our classmates showcased
The Berea Brave in the office being stolen by Midpark or someone.
Mr. Dial's chemistry classes.
IIt's Registration Day at Berea High School. The room is filled with teachers
behind conference tables, accepting applications from the Sophomores.
I notice an extremely good-looking man behind one of the tables, and approach
him. "Do you teach the class, I ask?" He replies, "yes."
"Well, then I want to sign up." He looks at me quizzically,
and asks if I would like to know what he teaches. I tell him that it doesn't
really matter! As fate would have it, Mr. Barry Garguilo became not only
my favorite teacher at BHS, he was also my homeroom teacher and friend.
Mr. Garguilo instilled in me a passion for researching history, geography
and various social issues that continues to this day.
Despite a rather mediocre football season, we actually rose to the occasion and won our last home game, defeating arch rival Midpark.
Laura Rinicella yelling "whore, whore" during the Am Trad presentation of The Crucible. The line was actually "where, where?"
Midpark rivalry. We wanted to beat them in every sport, every activity. My neighbor and a good family friend was Midpark's head basketball coach (Jim Pheneger) and their son, Dave, was a '77 BHS grad.
Meistersingers / contests
Girls Volleyball team captured the L.E.L. conference title
Aquateens. I remember choreographing the finale to Stars & Stripes Forever for our Bicentenial performance and coming up with the "brilliant" idea to make a floating flag the size of the pool. After weeks of sewing massive amounts of Tyvec which constantly tangled and piled up in a huge mess in our small sewing room-it was finally ready. I brought it to the pool at dress rehearsal, the girls swam it out and it promptly sunk to the bottom of the pool!
AFS
Mi-Bro-Be
Smoking area
The "Raisin
Club" (at least I think that's what we called it)–when we would
pull the hood up and pull the strings so that the person wearing the sweater/sweatshirt
couldn't see, then we'd drag them down the hallway by the hood strings
"Winter Wonderland" (winter homecoming)
"Walt Disney" (fall homecoming)
Holly Hop
Senior Prom (the Orient as the theme)
Post Prom at the BW Student Union
The Yearbook (The Spirit of '76)
"Carnival" (spring musical)
Jazz Band
Toilet-papering (rolling) houses. As a true sign that we had turned it into an art-form, I remember finishing a house on Wallace Drive (not a tree was spared) and not one person on the street noticed us. We sat for a few minutes waiting, then finally, in desperation for the thrill of seeing the parents freak out, we repeatedly rang the door bell. Lights went on and we fled.
Playing card games (Speed, etc.) during study hall
Streakers
Wildwood
Blossom Music Center
For some reason, when the referee at the Berea - Parma basketball made numerous bad calls, to the detriment of the Braves, the floor of the court became littered with Kielbasa... and, amidst the shouts and heckling, plastic pink flamingos could be seen throughout the Berea cheering section......
Teacher's strike in January: issues were class size and fringe benefits (we got an extra week of vacation!)
Hanging out in what can only be described as "massive packs" of kids. We would pour out of Finnie stadium after a football game, take over McDonald's on Bagley near 71 or just cruise the streets of Berea packed into a car (seat belts?) and then end up at someone's house where 10 similarly packed cars would be waiting. We must have looked like a cloud of locust, swooping over an area and taking it over.
The parties were legendary. My most vivid memory, especially after our famous party at Gary Chotkevys' house, was trying so hard to deny to my parents that I attended the party described in the newspaper (most times it ran in the Press since we tended to cause most of our trouble near midnight, after their deadlines).
Senior Cut Day (Cedar Point) was a bust for me personally since it happened the week of the State Track qualifying. I was in honors English with a teacher (who will remain nameless) that had a strong dislike for track athletes. She said if I cut, she would report me. Back then, if you had an unexcused absence on Friday, you couldn't run on Saturday. I showed up and was one of something like 2-3 kids in the entire class.
Top 25 songs of 1976:
1. Silly Love Songs, Paul McCartney and Wings
2. Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Elton John and Kiki Dee
3. Disco Lady, Johnnie Taylor
4. December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night), Four Seasons
5. Play That Funky Music, Wild Cherry
6. Kiss And Say Goodbye, Manhattans
7. Love Machine (Part 1), The Miracles
8. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, Paul Simon
9. Love Is Alive, Gary Wright
10. A Fifth Of Beethoven, Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band
11. Sara Smile, Daryl Hall and John Oates
12. Afternoon Delight, Starland Vocal Band
13. I Write The Songs, Barry Manilow
14. Fly, Robin, Fly, Silver Convention
15. Love Hangover, Diana Ross
16. Get Close, Seals and Crofts
17. More, More, More, Andrea True Connection
18. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
19. Misty Blue, Dorothy Moore
20. Boogie Fever, Sylvers
21. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight, England Dan and John Ford Coley
22. You Sexy Thing, Hot Chocolate
23. Love Hurts, Nazareth
24. Get Up And Boogie, Silver Convention
25. Take It To The Limit, Eagles
Movies of 1976:
Rocky
King Kong
Logan's Run
Across the Great Divide
The Pom Pom Girls
A Star is Born
All the President's Men
Bound for Glory
Carrie
Some of the top news stories from sophomore & junior year were:
1974
Nixon resigns rather than being impeached leaving the United States with an unelected president.
Patty Hearst was abducted by terrorists,
Hank Aaron beat Babe Ruth's home run record
The OPEC oil embargo ends.
Facing certain impeachment, Richard Nixon ends nearly three years of investigations into his abuses of power and becomes the first U.S. president to resign.
Gerald Ford, the first unelected vice-president, becomes the only unelected president.
Evil Knieval makes an unsuccessful attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho.
President Ford pardons Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed.
Nelson Rockefeller becomes the second unelected vice president (following Gerald Ford a year earlier).
1975
The Watergate hearings ended with various defendants either heading off to prison or being released from prison.
Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to lead a political party in Britain
Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing
Two women attempted in separate incidents to assassinate President Ford in September.
China officially adopts a new constitution.
South Vietnam surrenders to the Communists in the north ending the war in Vietnam.
Having lost, President Ford announces the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war.
Egypt's Anwar Sadat officially reopens the Suez Canal, which has been closed since the end of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
The the joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz space mission begins.
The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Boston Red Sox in game 7 to win the World Series.
And our graduation year–1976!
A devastating earthquake in China
Bicentennial celebrations in the U.S.
The death of Mao in China
The Viking mission to Mars
Jimmy Carter winning the presidency
The Summer Olympics in Montreal
Supreme Court Rules Capital Punishment Is Constitutional
Supreme Court Allows Removal Of Karen Quinlan's Life Support Systems
Two amateur electronics enthusiasts develop the Apple computer in a California garage
Farrah Fawcett-majors posters become a fad
Concord begins regular transatlantic flights