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It was fun, lovelylady! And I too am still in contact with a few of those classmates. Now, if was my high school class, forget about it! Like I wrote, that 8th grade class had 64 kids. My high school graduation class had well over 500! I'd be lucky to name 100 . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 8, 2013 at 5:14 AM | link to this | reply

I'm sure I could name a good number of them. Some of them I still have contact with even now. Glad you had such fun!

posted by lovelyladymonk on November 7, 2013 at 3:08 PM | link to this | reply

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I don't think, TAPS, that you should refer to yourself as "awfully" old. Just being old is bad enough! But I understand. Like I wrote, I was somewhat amazed, and proud, at getting 63 out of 64! Twenty years from now, I may not be so proficient, or lucky . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM | link to this | reply

Probably only a few....but, afterall, I went to an awfully large school, and I'm awfully old now. LOL

posted by TAPS. on November 7, 2013 at 9:59 AM | link to this | reply

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Thanks, Kabu. I only wish that my percentage of answering questions on some of those school tests was as high! I would have been a straight-A student! As it was, my report cards had a lot of B's and C's, but I guess that's better than a bunch of D's and F's . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM | link to this | reply

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All of them, Annicita? Sure, sure, rub it in! I'm still happy with 63 out of 64! But it is fun to do, isn't it? I can't help but wonder if any of my former classmates did the exact same thing one day, and couldn't name me . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:16 AM | link to this | reply

Re: We had a class of about 32 in Grade 8....

Uh, oh, Rumor. Did I spark something within you to take a similar stroll down memory lane, and perhaps undergo a similar challenge? Hey, it might be more fun than you think! Just whatever you do, don't forget to pick out and name yourself . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:14 AM | link to this | reply

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That would make it somewhat easier, FSI! Less kids, and less years in between, would help tremendously! That's why I was so proud of myself in naming 63 out of 64 after forty years! I still wish I could have named that last girl though! Oh, well . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:12 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Overcrowded classrooms

You may recognize the belt buckle, Setaki, but how about the boy himself? That's the real challenge! Actually, our 8th grade class was divided into two separate rooms, one called "advanced," and the other referred to as "remedial." They just combined us for this picture. There's no way any of those classrooms could have accommodated 64 kids at once!

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:10 AM | link to this | reply

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That, C C T, would be an even greater challenge. I guess my memory of these people is sort of locked into that particular time period, and that's how I would think of those people now. How many I could recognize and name if I ran into them today would probably be far less, I suppose . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:07 AM | link to this | reply

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Has it been that long, Utah? My friend also had our high school year book, and I must say that, besides the length of hair ( much, much shorter now ) and my poor attempt at a mustache ( completely gone now ) I don't think I've changed all that much. Other people might feel differently though, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:05 AM | link to this | reply

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I understand, lustor. I guess it's a matter of priorities. Yeah, I believe it's far more important to remember your own name than the names of people you went to school with years ago. It was just a fun challenge for me, and one I feel I did pretty good with . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:02 AM | link to this | reply

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Really, Naut? Just out of curiosity, what percentage of your former classmates do you think you might be able to name? Or has it been just too damned long? I usually struggle with names, but for some reason, I never forget a face. How I did so well with these kids names is beyond me . . .

posted by JimmyA on November 7, 2013 at 7:00 AM | link to this | reply

LOL...I believe that you win!!!!

posted by Kabu on November 6, 2013 at 5:40 PM | link to this | reply

i was looking at it the other day and i think i knew all of them

posted by Annicita on November 6, 2013 at 2:50 PM | link to this | reply

We had a class of about 32 in Grade 8....

I think its in the attic with my Yearbooks...maybe Liz knows for sure and can dig it up for me....

posted by Rumor on November 6, 2013 at 1:22 PM | link to this | reply

Beings that I am twenty-eight and there were only twenty-seven others in the entire grade (I went to a small private school), I would like to think that I could name all my eighth grade peers.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on November 6, 2013 at 12:01 PM | link to this | reply

Overcrowded classrooms

64 pupils in a class, that is quite a large number. Parents over here are unhappy about classes with more than 35 kids as it makes individual attention to them impossible, they say.I would be able to recognise only one of the 50 boys who were in my 8th grade class; he had broad orange coloured buckle belt with which he used to sort us out when we bothered him.I would recognise it in any old faded photograph.

posted by Setaki on November 6, 2013 at 11:53 AM | link to this | reply

Seriously that was pretty good. I wonder though if they were all in a room, if you could name them, as you now see them as they were obviously.

posted by C_C_T on November 6, 2013 at 10:52 AM | link to this | reply

That is better than good, I looked at my high school book and didn't know who I was.