I graduated from Fort Pierce Central High School in Ft. Pierce, FL. back in 1980. So much time has past since then and I rarely recall any memories from my high school experience. I had supposed that if I tried I would have trouble remembering many of my former classmates. To my surprise, as I paged through my 1979 Hamadryad (our yearbook) and looked at the faces and names I seemed to remember almost everyone. Not just remember as a distant recollection, but as a hi-def clip of how each person looked, spoke and acted. Since I left town upon graduation I have never had any contact with any of them and so no mental picture other than that from the period of the late 70’s. At least in my mind, they all exist just as they did, as kids with only vague expectations of what would lie ahead and no knowledge of whatever travails they were yet to face. Though it might be interesting to meet up with some of them today, I know they wouldn’t really be the same people I knew then, in personality or appearance.
On the other hand they may feel that they are today just as they were then. For me, I not only believe that about myself, I’m sure of it.
Looking at the comments that people wrote in my yearbook, my memory isn’t so definite on what some of them are referring to. Still it is fun to read them again. I decided that enough time has passed that no one who wrote anything should care if I posted the comments online as a permanent record of what we used to think of back then.
The comments can be found from the 1979 yearbook link on the schools page.
