High School Questions

Douglas Seaman
Class of 1968

1. Did you know your spouse? My wife, Gordy, attended GA but I did not know her. She knew people that knew me, but we never met.

2. Did you carpool? Rode the bus or my mother dropped me off on her way to work

3. What kind of car did you have? Ford Cortina

4. It's Friday night where did you go? Football Game I was in the marching band. After football would go to the drive-in Brunswick, fight the Mosquitoes and steam up the windows. Beach parties were popular on Jekyll

5. What kind of job did you have? Worked as the short order cook for Tastee Freeze. They provided one meal on each shift, and we got to eat our mistakes. Surprising how many bananas splits had to be done a second time.

6. Were you a party animal? Starting the summer of the night grade I would be sick as a dog for drinking too much the night before, does this qualify?

7. Were you considered popular? I was popular with one special girl that is all I needed my senior year.

8. Were you in band/glee club/choir? I was in the marching band and the orchestra (without strings). In the summer would go to Musemount (a fine arts summer camp run by Mr. Barr located in the piney hills of Columbus Georgia, in 1986 was also on Jekyll) and play in their symphony (with strings)

9. Were you a nerd?

Most standard definition= Nerd is a slang term for a socially awkward person who excels in science or technology

Read more at http://www.yourdictionary.com/nerd#UIQXecbdRc7wZLrE.99.

Origin of nerd

from uncertain or unknown; perhaps arbitrary coinage by Dr. Seuss for the name of a creature in his children's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950)

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10. Did you get suspended or expelled? No, I did not smoke or skip school.

11. Can you sing the fight song? No, but I can play it on the saxophone

12. Where did you eat lunch? No, my mother made me lunch, most times meat loft sandwich.

13. Did you attend Glynn Academy but graduate elsewhere and if so where? No, was most fortunate to have spent three enlightening years at GA, the best education one could have in the 1960’s.

14. Your Glynn Academy mascot was the Red Terror. Maybe a wild boar, or the rattlesnakes, or the hammerhead sharks? ????

15. If you could go back and do it over again, would you? Would I know then what I know now, yes. If it was just a repeat, yes then I would have double my pleasures.

16. What would you do differently? I did not know the importance of a quality education and in high school did not think about what I would do after. I ended up at Brunswick Jr. College just because it was there and that my selective service number was 28.

17. Did you have fun at prom? Let’s just say I did not “found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.”

18. Do you still talk to the person you went to the senior prom with? Yes, occasionally

19. Are you planning on going to your next class reunion? Yes

20. Are you still in contact with people from high school? Yes

21. Did you skip school/class? Only on the last week of my senior year.

22. Did the teachers like you? Never met a Glynn Academy teacher that I did not like. They all were there for the students. The set the example and set the bar of a 96-100=A. Sadly the bar has been lowered many times and a diploma from GA is not the same 1968 and 2017.

23. How old were you when you graduated? 18 and 10 months (I failed 3rd grade when I spent a year in California.)

24. Did you have a nickname? I think one person I knew called me Duggie, most called me Doug, and I am now a Douglas.
25. What was your favorite TV show back then? The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

What else should we know or remember about you when you were a Senior?