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.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
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.
billytea - Feb 14, 2011 12:00:14 pm PST #22814 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
lisah - Feb 14, 2011 12:02:47 pm PST #22815 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
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.
Daisy Jane - Feb 14, 2011 12:05:35 pm PST #22816 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2011 12:07:49 pm PST #22817 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
flea - Feb 14, 2011 12:07:55 pm PST #22818 of 30001
information libertarian
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.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2011 12:12:05 pm PST #22819 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister had the best--she was friends in primary school with Judi Dench's daughter.
Kate P. - Feb 14, 2011 12:13:22 pm PST #22820 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I went to high school with (and knew pretty well) musicians Tift Merritt
Cool! I really like her, despite that I've missed seeing her every time she's come to town since we moved here (at least three times so far).
I don't think I went to HS with anyone famous, though my college's list of alums includes Joss! He was a few years before my time.
Beverly - Feb 14, 2011 12:20:07 pm PST #22821 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Not classmates, but. Also, we've had no illustrious architects, scientists, or business grads, so it all balances out.
beekaytee - Feb 14, 2011 12:21:55 pm PST #22822 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Gosh, I wouldn't know how to find out which alums from my high school who are famous. On the other hand, Maynard Ferguson and Dave Brubeck went to my university.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2011 12:22:01 pm PST #22823 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
though my college's list of alums includes Joss!
Raise you a Shat!
And a Colin. And a John Rogers. Well, okay, you can keep the Shat. My only interactions with him were of the asshatish type. Him, uh, not me.
Man, this NPR jam is excellent. Sing it, Boyz II Men.