Sue+Jones+Interview

Lindsey: Okay, So what years did you attend West? Erin: Alright, what activities were you involved in at school? Lindsey: was the sextet like, a girls’ sextet? Lindsey: were you involved in any musicals or theater stuff? Erin: What were some of your favorite things to do outside of school? Lindsey: Yeah? Lindsey: Cruising on Main Street. Lindsey: Where were some places that you and your friends went to hang out? Lindsey: Yeah Erin: Which sports games did you attend? Lindsey: Were the basketball games a big thing then too? Lindsey: Yeah. Did you play any sports while you were in high school? Erin: who were some of your favorite teachers or classes? Lindsey: Was Civics still sophomore year, or did you just take it whenever? Lindsey: Well, that worked out though. How do you compare the old campus to the new campus? Erin: what were the highlights of Hobo Day when you were in high school? Lindsey: was the parade on Friday, like the actual Hobo Day? Erin: Did you dress up every day? Lindsey: Like the different themes they do now? Lindsey: I think we started that in like, the 80’s. The different days. Lindsey: Well no, I’m pretty sure they did, because Jackie said they did and she graduated in ’99. So I’m not sure. Maybe he just didn’t feel like doing it. Lindsey: How was Prom and all the other dances? Were they as big as they are now? Lindsey: Just like is now. Lindsey: Was it separate Juniors and Seniors? Erin: Did you participate in Donkey Basketball? Lindsey: Well its a good thing they’re still doing it then. Lindsey: well right, I mean getting trampled by a donkey. Lindsey: How would you compare you freshman year to your senior year, as far as being wise about high school? Lindsey: yeah, there’s a lot of senior stuff that’s only in the spring. Lindsey: Holey Smokes. That’s bigger than it is now, by like 200. Erin: What was your most challenging year in high school? Lindsey: After graduating high school, what did you do? Erin: If you could go back and give advice to your high school self, what would it be? Lindsey: were there like, any honors classes back then? Or advanced classes? Lindsey: Yeah, that’s what my dad said “Well I never took them, soo” Lindsey: Alright, next one. What did you not like about high school? Lindsey: See, with being in honors classes, you have the same classes with the same like, 80 kids. Erin: do you still keep in touch with friends or teachers from high school? Lindsey: Do you miss being in high school? Erin: What was on eof your most embarrassing or amusing moments in high school? Lndsey: This is a tough one. Lindsey: I know Lindsey: Yeah, in your freshman picture, you do have glasses. Lindsey: Alright, well that’s it.
 * Sue**: 1972-1976
 * Sue**: The Concert Choir and Incept Sextet and they had intramural sports.
 * Sue**: Yes, it was 6 girls. My favorite part of high school.
 * Sue**: No
 * Sue**: Drive around Belleville and be with my girlfriend, Linda. Main Street was a big thing back then.
 * Sue**: Driving from one end of town to the other end of town.
 * Sue**: Yep, cruising on Main Street.
 * Sue**: 20th street, which was at the time a drive-in place to go eat. You know, where you pull in and you ordered and they brought it out to your car. Its Pig-in-a-Poke now. Now its not anything. Back then it was a really neat place to go. We always made the rounds into McDonald’s because that was about as far west as we used to go was McDonald’s. Ant then you’d go back and go through down town and there really weren’t a lot of places to go downtown other than stores at the time. Like they have Bread co. now, but they did have Schloffler’s Drug Store was I think the only place and Schlosser’s, I think those 2 places had things to eat. Other than that, not a whole lot to do downtown other than shop.
 * Sue**: Mostly, probably football games. I didn’t really get in with the baseball type things that were right after school. I did more of the Friday night football.
 * Sue**: Basketball. I did attend some basketball. Probably more football than basketball.
 * Sue**: No. The sports I did was all probably during P.E.. Flag football, archery, things like that.
 * Sue**: My ceramics class I really enjoyed. Civics, with Mrs. Reichert., she was probably my favorite high school teacher.
 * Sue**: I couldn’t tell you. I’d have to go back and look at my report cards. I don’t remember what year we took Civics. I want to say it was sophomore year, but I don’t know. One thing I do remember is that through my junior high years, the only person that I had a class with my whole 4 years of high school was my best friend Linda. And we had one class.
 * Sue**: The fact that everything is new is nice. I liked the old campus because you could go outside and be in the elements, but that was also a negative because if it was raining or snowing or really cold, you didn’t want to be outside, but you had to. So, there’s good and bad about both. You know, I think having all the new things in the school is good, but you guys are used to having all kinds of new things anyway so
 * Sue**: Probably the highlight for me was just, you know, the parade part of it. I think I helped one year with the float and then I ended not getting to involved in the float after that. I think the highlight for me was just a fun day and the parade.
 * Sue**: yeah, I think it was on the day of the football game. That was a huge day, the biggest day of the year for all of us.
 * Sue**: mmm, no. I don’t remember, I just remember we dressed like a Hobo on the day. Dressed in crummy clothes.
 * Sue**: something I wish my son would have done.
 * Sue**: That’s possible
 * Sue**: No I don’t think they were as big as they are now. I was disappointed. I didn’t go to my Junior prom. I just went to senior prom and at the time, I was already dating who I married. I just remember it being a lot of work up to it with the dress and the flowers.
 * Sue**: And let me tell you, I think its worse now because seems to want to spend exorbitant amounts of money on, whereas that was not, you know, I mean you were lucky if you got a hand-me-down dress so you didn’t have to spend the money. But it think it enden up, we went out to eat an you know, the prom, I just remember it being, for me, it was very boring.
 * Sue**: no, just as my junior year I didn’t go because I didn’t have a date. And back then, you didn’t go if you didn’t have a date. You know, so being able to go with a bunch of girls, maybe people did that. I don’t know, but to me if you didn’t get asked, you didn’t go.
 * Sue**: No. And now knowing what it’s like after going and watching Sarah’s class, I wish I had. I don’t think I even attended a donkey basketball game when I was in high school.
 * Sue**: I wish I had. I wish I had gone, but it just didn’t appeal to me at the time and..
 * Sue**: I never laughed so hard as the year I watched Sarah do it.
 * Sue**: Well, I think to be honest with you, I was wiser going in than I was coming out. Personally, and I’ll tell you why. Wwnt in as a freshman, I was just like every other freshman. I learned quite a bit of stuff my first 2 years and then for some reason my junior year I was antsy and wanted to do nothing but get out of high school. And so I worked through my junior with the least amount of stuff I had to do and then my senior year, I schooled for a half a year and then graduated in December and then I cam back in June to graduate; biggest mistake of my life. And I’ve told both my kids that and I think it kept them from even thinking about doing that. My mom did the same thing and tried to get me not to do it, but it didn’t work. But I feel like I missed out on an awful lot of stuff.
 * Sue**: right, and when I came backing June, it was like nobody even remembered I was even a student. We had the biggest class, graduating class. We had 855 people.
 * Sue**: Probably my junior year. Cause I was getting ready to be done. I wanted to be out of there. I wanted to graduate, get a job, buy a car, get married, and have kids and be done.
 * Sue**: I got a job, bought a car, got married, and had kids. And then wentback to school and got my associate’s degree when I was 45, so I wished I had done it after high school. You live, you learn.
 * Sue**: If I could give advice to my high school self. Strive to do more than I did, strive to take harder classes than I did, graduate with my class and go on to college.
 * Sue**: To be honest with you, I couldn’t tell you if there were because I never took them.
 * Sue**: just school in general. I’m like my daughter. I didn’t like math. With math class I went in thinking I hated it so it was like I never really gave it a chance to work. And the fact that most of my classes, I didn’t know anybody in was another bummer for me. Like, whenever I talked to my other friends, they had all these people in their classes an dI never really got anybody I knew.
 * Sue**: friends or teachers from high school. Actually, Mrs. Reichert, who was my favorite Civics teacher, her son actually came into the office where I work now so we talked about his mom, but other than that, probably my girlfriend Linda, she was Linda Hausman. Her and maybe Glenda Boxdorfer, who is now Glenda Marticious are probably the 2 that I talk to the most.
 * Sue**: I don’t think I miss being in high school. I wish I could go back and redo high school, because I think I would have done it totally differently.
 * Sue**: you should have given me a little warning.
 * Sue**: Actually, I’m trying to thing of what year it was. I got my pictures taken. It might have been my freshman year. When we went to pick up the yearbooks, I was mad because I thought they had someone else’s picture on my name. And my girlfriend Linda said Sue, that’s you. I had gotten contacts, and my hair was totally different.
 * Sue**: But like, I though they had somebody else’s picture. It was nasty. It was not a good picture. So I guess that would be an embarrassing moment.