'Why We Fight'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
What's The Motts?
The only famous people who went to my high school are Brian and Brady Blade (Brian, I think was the one my husband was in school with), Kenny Wayne Sheppard (I went to school with him), and Cedric Glover, the 1st African-American mayor of Shreveport.
There are probably more in other fields, just not that I know of.
I don't know if anybody from my high school became famous.
JZ went to high school with Margaret Cho, Aisha Tyler (who I totally didn't realize was Ross's Black Girlfriend on Friends. She's so awesome on Archer), and Sam Rockwell. EM went to high school with Elizabeth Pena (a good friend), Ving Rhames (dance program, of all things) and Suzanne Vega. Both performing arts high schools.
I went to high school with Nadine Sutherland, who you've never heard of, and Vauna Hyatt, ditto, but Jamaicans have. In England I was a year behind Helena Bonham Carter, and a year ahead of Sarah Patterson (who didn't do much after her Neil Jordan debut).
What's The Motts?
Watch from the hall syndrome.
Aisha Tyler (who I totally didn't realize was Ross's Black Girlfriend on Friends. She's so awesome on Archer)
I did! She also hosted a dating show on late night called The Fifth Wheel.
Why's it called The Motts?
My high school produced Ricky Stuart, former halfback and coach for the Kangaroos, the Australian rugby league team; and George Gregan, former captain of the Wallabies, the Australian rugby union team; and Alex Jesaulenko, Aussie Rules hall-of-famer. Aside from sporting lights, I suspect my dad might be its most famous alumnus.
Joe Biden's sister and the girl who plays April on Parks & Rec went to my high school. Many years apart, obvs, and neither when I was there. Also a girl, Val Whiting, who played basketball in one of the first, if not the first, seasons of the WNBA. She was a freshman when I was a senior.
And, looking at Wikipedia, the wife of Ed Rendell, gov of PA.
And a couple of other notable basketball players. We had a good basketball program.
We had no basketball (sad emoticon here).
In looking for more famous people, I have discovered my old debate partner died in 2007 after a sudden illness. Sad. We were actually able to use him as a source on cold fusion when the topic that year was space travel. Good times.
Motts is something from bandom, if memory serves.
For my high school of people I wasn't at school with, all I know for sure is Angela Lansbury.
I was also there with some Kenyattas.
I went to high school with (and knew pretty well) musicians Tift Merritt and Brandon Bush (who is in the band Sugarland; his brother is one of the main people.) But famous people who went to my high school include John F. Kennedy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Douglas, Alan Jay Lerner, John Dos Passos, Edward Albee, and Adlai Stevenson, so my contemporaries hardly rate.