Band geek - but in my class there were several of us that didn't quite fit that mold so it wasn't as unhip as it sounds. We used to take on teams comprised of band geeks from other schools in tackle football every couple of weeks. Oh, how we would brutalize them.
1st identity- Surfer 2nd identity- Stoner 3rd identiy- Football player With that combination I was able to move pretty fluidly among all the cliques at Lamar in the mid 80's.
Lot of band geeks here. My school wasn't very cliquish. We had the French kids and the American kids. I guess I leaned more to the American kids.
skater/punk/newwave/drinker/user edit: along with clutchfans member dsnow23, i was a pretty dominant badminton player...
Little bit of every group... and it seems like the cliques were breaking down by my senior year. I was in Band... Baritone/Bass depending on the needs during the concert season that year. Had a good time hanging with the band geeks. I played football. Some were OK, some were jerks. Went back to the 25 year reunion last year and most of the then-jerks had been humbled by life. (I would have loved to play basketball, but there was way too much talent for me to go beyond Freshman year, so a group of us played every day after school, including some blood-letting games at the Elementary School's 8 foot rims.) Played poker with a hodge-podge group once a month. Went to parties with the potheads... where Clapton's Cocaine was inevitably playing. Hung out with the brothers, grooved to Parliament and played Tonk for hours... there were only a few white kids who were allowed to sit in the back of the bus with the brothers when coming back from a game... the irony of that was lost on me at the time. About the only group I didn't care about hanging with were the goat ropers... couldn't stand the music at the time. Drove down to Houston for concerts with whoever was able to go... music was the great unifier, especially Pink Floyd... when The Wall came out, everyone sat around listening to it over and over and if word got out you had a good stereo system and cool parents, all kinds of people would come over just to listen to Pink. My three best friends were more or less like me except for the band connection. It was all sort of like Dazed and Confused.
skater>stoner>popular/party crowd my high school was a little different in that the "cool/in" kids weren't the jocks (especially football... those guys were lame) but the heavy drinkers/pot smoker/drug users. the transisition from skater/stoner to preppy/popular/stoner was a pretty easy one.
ditto. acadec/ja kinda geek that played sports with friends outside of school. Lots of friends, but they're all very similar. Not extreme bookworm or anything, considering I never studied much...ever.... But crammed like crazy when it counted.
Reveal yourself Fatty. do the words FunTime, Mrs Bailey, Mrs Bell, Red Red White White White White ring a bell?
Class of '90. About the only people I know that you may have are Mike Hall, Mark Day, Costas Vallatos, and maybe Michelle Billette.
I don't think my school had cliques in the traditional American high school sense. With a graduating class of only 62, how do you divide up into cliques?
I was in the popular "party crowd" with the athletes, cheerleaders, etc. I was also captain of the debate and academic teams so I lived a bit of a double life.
What about the Substance Abuse Monitor that looked like Bruce Willis, but wore that Indiana Jacket all the time. Did you learn how to drive from Mr Weatherford?
