In Danish "Husker Du?" (Pronounced HOOSKER DOO?) means "Do you remember?
Also the name of a 70's children's boardgame... and a rock band, too. But here it's a feature we are serving up to you to relive those golden high school "dayz". Here in our first installment, we will take you back to our Sophomore year...
September 1978 - we were headed to Clinton High School for the first time. Little did we know we were about to become the last class to enter CHS while it was still a three year high school. In the fall of 1979 our alma mater would start the year with a double dose of underclassmen as it switched over to a four year high school. Although typical today to have a four year high school, back in 1978 CHS was and had been a three year school for decades.
We had spent that last summer (if we were lucky) goofing off with our classmates from our respective junior high schools, all THREE of them... Lyons, Washington & Gateway, before becoming low man (and woman) on the totem pole. Sidebar: To be "low man on the totem pole" could actually be a good thing; in Native American lore, the position on the totem was NOT indicative of status or respect, low, middle or top, it didn't matter. It was up to the carver to declare which was the most important figure no matter their position on the totem... don't believe me? Google it! But I digress, we spent that last summer down at the Riverfront Park Pool, kicking back at Eagle Point Park (climbing the cliffs because of course, no one listened to their parents!) and in general in various forms of (harmless?) mischief.