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Anyone have a high school classmate who became famous or infamous? (Original Post) Kaleva Nov 2017 OP
Literally no one from my high school has ever become famous underpants Nov 2017 #1
I post on the DU True Dough Nov 2017 #2
One is a well known gospel singer and former Weather Girl. (the singing group) Solly Mack Nov 2017 #3
Edward Gibson became a NASA Astronaut CatMor Nov 2017 #4
I Went to High School with a Current Congressman Leith Nov 2017 #5
Yes--He went on to star in Days of Our Lives crazycatlady Nov 2017 #6
I baby sat for Bobby Kotik, who became a billionaire. fierywoman Nov 2017 #7
More than one. The most infamous recently assaulted a US Senator in KY. MANative Nov 2017 #8
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt d_r Nov 2017 #9
You guys..... MyOwnPeace Nov 2017 #31
He must have skipping school during real science class. democratisphere Nov 2017 #102
I went to high school with ... NanceGreggs Nov 2017 #10
No but snowybirdie Nov 2017 #11
Yeah, you can buy blonde hair AND curves n/t TexasBushwhacker Nov 2017 #22
The closest to famous of my classmates was a guy who was featured on the news lunamagica Nov 2017 #12
Ted Bundy went to my high school gopiscrap Nov 2017 #13
Yikes. MontanaMama Nov 2017 #81
Quite a few from my high school PJMcK Nov 2017 #14
And........... MyOwnPeace Nov 2017 #33
Aw, c'mon! PJMcK Nov 2017 #59
Great response! MyOwnPeace Nov 2017 #61
She went into Porn when they still had actual story lines! A HERETIC I AM Nov 2017 #114
I wouldn't know JonLP24 Nov 2017 #15
Glenn White went to Northside Jr High angstlessk Nov 2017 #16
I went to the same high school and had the same speech teacher as Laffy Kat Nov 2017 #17
AND She dated Elvis Presley in her day! Docreed2003 Nov 2017 #35
No kidding, UT, eh? Laffy Kat Nov 2017 #72
Well, Cybill is a graduate of East High on Poplar Docreed2003 Nov 2017 #76
She went to Frayser High, although she might have graduated from East. Laffy Kat Nov 2017 #80
Dang I knew Hollywood and James Rd...havent been up there in about 20 yrs myself Docreed2003 Nov 2017 #82
My sister thinks it was East too. Laffy Kat Nov 2017 #84
And Im embarrassed to say... Docreed2003 Nov 2017 #85
LOL. Laffy Kat Nov 2017 #86
No mercuryblues Nov 2017 #18
Anita Bryant a grad 1 or 2 yrs later bobbieinok Nov 2017 #19
Quite a few. Off the top of my head... OilemFirchen Nov 2017 #20
We had a few, mostly athletes... SeattleVet Nov 2017 #21
I think most of mine are in the Witness Protection Program jberryhill Nov 2017 #23
I went to high school with Robert Earl Keen TexasBushwhacker Nov 2017 #24
Since the holidays are approaching.... Docreed2003 Nov 2017 #36
Nicholas Cage and Roman Coppola Mrs. Overall Nov 2017 #25
Went to school with a less famous Coppola Not Ruth Nov 2017 #87
Howard Keel graduated from my high school benld74 Nov 2017 #26
Loni Anderson. She was a couple years ahead of me The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #27
She wrote a fabulous autobiography Freddie Nov 2017 #104
I wonder how much hair spray she used? LeftInTX Nov 2017 #125
That's her, all right. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #126
Yes, just Famous though maxsolomon Nov 2017 #28
Two classmates, along with one of their mothers, went missing after graduation and remain missing The Genealogist Nov 2017 #29
Pic of the Springfield Three Kaleva Nov 2017 #50
I used to watch alot of true crime shows LeftInTX Nov 2017 #129
A guy in my graduation class disappeared in 1980. Archae Nov 2017 #146
I went to high school with novelist Thomas Cobb. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2017 #30
Bruce Hornsby Yonnie3 Nov 2017 #32
Love Bruce Hornsby! n/t seaglass Nov 2017 #120
No one famous ever graduated from my high school. Ever. Orangeutan Nov 2017 #34
That's GREAT! MyOwnPeace Nov 2017 #41
One woman in my class of 400 became a state representative for at least 8 years royable Nov 2017 #37
I can not remember how to spell his name but I will try. Doreen Nov 2017 #38
Detlef Schrempf ClarendonDem Nov 2017 #42
The more I think about it I think he was a senior when I was a freshman. Doreen Nov 2017 #44
Kent State shootings........... MyOwnPeace Nov 2017 #39
Not my classmate, but one of my favorite students: beveeheart Nov 2017 #40
Classmates with a couple of former NFL players ClarendonDem Nov 2017 #43
Russ Woody. Bella Vista 73 ghostsinthemachine Nov 2017 #45
Danny Devto from my high school and friend of my brother FloridaBlues Nov 2017 #46
Danny Devito? I'm just wondering if that's a typo :) n/t auntAgonist Nov 2017 #94
Yep it was! FloridaBlues Nov 2017 #95
It happens :) n/t auntAgonist Nov 2017 #116
I was in the same class as sweetroxie Nov 2017 #47
Oh, yeah a friend of mine said that the hostess of Californication went Doreen Nov 2017 #48
My former debate partner exboyfil Nov 2017 #49
Minor part actors. Univ Athletic Directors. Roland99 Nov 2017 #51
Lots of interesting replies! Kaleva Nov 2017 #52
Not me, but my mother. madaboutharry Nov 2017 #53
Not that I know off offhand, but my son graduated with Nick Fuentes Freethinker65 Nov 2017 #54
Two sweetloukillbot Nov 2017 #55
Not famous no but a classmate and teammate was on flight 175 tymorial Nov 2017 #56
I babysat for Alan Atkin more than once. secondwind Nov 2017 #57
Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother FuzzyRabbit Nov 2017 #58
Howard Hughes, neighbor's, stepson's , gardener went to my high school. dubyadiprecession Nov 2017 #60
Senator Elizabeth Warren solara Nov 2017 #62
She was one of my sister's law professors at UT LeftInTX Nov 2017 #130
Our most famous classmate is Mary Youngblood worstexever Nov 2017 #63
I went to two junior highs and four high schools, so chances are there's gotta be at least one. Iggo Nov 2017 #64
Kenny G KT2000 Nov 2017 #65
Several professional athletes from my school JDC Nov 2017 #66
Michael Moorer, former heavyweight boxing champion. Efilroft Sul Nov 2017 #67
Once famous now infamous evemac Nov 2017 #68
Two words: David Hasselhoff Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2017 #69
David Hasselhoff Kaleva Nov 2017 #71
Respect The Hoff Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2017 #73
She retired from acting at the age of 22 Kaleva Nov 2017 #74
Yeah, and I still haven't bothered to look up her pic in the yearbook to jog my memory. Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2017 #75
Not me - but Katherine Harris technically graduated with my little sister csziggy Nov 2017 #70
I went to school with Wendy Thomas (as in "Wendy's") unblock Nov 2017 #77
A President of a major candy company. An author of many highly-regarded travel guides. A nationally- WinkyDink Nov 2017 #78
I Have Two, That I Can Think Of...... becca da bakkah Nov 2017 #79
Our high school quarterback during my senior year customerserviceguy Nov 2017 #83
John Elway played at my HS stollen Nov 2017 #110
8 degrees of separation or less stollen Nov 2017 #111
Was that at a high school in The San Fernando Valley? n/t Upthevibe Nov 2017 #135
Kirk? Gibson RGinNJ Nov 2017 #88
Bobcat Goldthwaite and Chloe Webb yankeepants Nov 2017 #89
I went to college with a few minor celebrities. forgotmylogin Nov 2017 #90
Have a couple ......... woody44 Nov 2017 #91
Farrah Fawcett, W.B. Ray High-Corpus Christi, TX...... Upthevibe Nov 2017 #93
Jesse Valenzuela (Gin Blossoms) Kali Nov 2017 #92
Much younger than me, but one was on SNL. femmocrat Nov 2017 #96
He was only on for 3 seasons TexasBushwhacker Nov 2017 #112
I forget the premise and actual jokes OriginalGeek Nov 2017 #118
I went to a large city high school. femmocrat Nov 2017 #122
Tommy Ilves - President of Estonia 2006 - 2016 nt blaze Nov 2017 #97
Not in my class (just ahead of me), but from my high school(s) for sure. One good Guy. One less so. DFW Nov 2017 #98
Lenny Bruce attended my elementary school! PennyK Nov 2017 #99
Four of the five starting offensive linemen in my HS went on to the pros... malthaussen Nov 2017 #100
bonnie dunbar..astronaut. samnsara Nov 2017 #101
my brother in law used to baby sit kurt cobain.. samnsara Nov 2017 #103
No but a friend went to HS with Daryl Hall Freddie Nov 2017 #105
Sean Patrick Thomas and Dennis Brockenborough were in the grade above me. Skinner Nov 2017 #106
Classmate made it to the NFL and later management with the Colts bigbrother05 Nov 2017 #107
John Fitzgerald (Dallas Cowboys football star, Southbridge Native and.... Little Star Nov 2017 #108
Classmates enid602 Nov 2017 #109
I went to High School with Pete Docter Noodleboy13 Nov 2017 #113
I didnt know her she was ahead of me in high school. Grammy23 Nov 2017 #115
Martha Quinn, original MTV DJ Corgigal Nov 2017 #117
A high school classmate of mine stole the Pentagon Papers Brother Buzz Nov 2017 #119
I went to art school with the future Talking Heads. kwassa Nov 2017 #121
Angela Bofill was a year behind me musette_sf Nov 2017 #123
Not really high school, but James Cameron and Gwen Stefani graduated from my community college. Initech Nov 2017 #124
I graduated high school with Tyler Eifert bearsfootball516 Nov 2017 #127
Benjamin Netanyahu Misskittycat Nov 2017 #128
Martin Sheen was my older brother's classmate. We were friends with him and his brothers. wasupaloopa Nov 2017 #131
No one famous in my high school... llmart Nov 2017 #132
The closest I think my high school came to fame was having Kevin McHale play in our gym. Thor_MN Nov 2017 #133
Not me, but two of my friends were in Kim Basinger's HS class. CottonBear Nov 2017 #134
All my classmates did. Not me, though. Orrex Nov 2017 #136
Adrienne Barbeau was a classmate of my brother's--2 years younger than me. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2017 #137
Gilda Radner WyLoochka Nov 2017 #138
Several who are famous now went to my school Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 #139
One became a Repug vote suppressor and voter fraud alarmist extraordinaire. eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #140
I had a classmate who orchestrated a murder plot against the president of the young Republicans milestogo Nov 2017 #141
Mark Murphy, Green Bay CEO July Nov 2017 #142
University High in W.L.A.: Notable actors, musicians, athletes, and one murderer. VOX Nov 2017 #143
I must have gone to Undercheiver High GusBob Nov 2017 #144
A graduate of a local HS was a victim of Jeffery Dahmer Kaleva Nov 2017 #145

underpants

(182,273 posts)
1. Literally no one from my high school has ever become famous
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 05:17 PM
Nov 2017

Seriously. Not one.

We did have a guy who got to the NFL...played in 2 games.

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
3. One is a well known gospel singer and former Weather Girl. (the singing group)
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 05:25 PM
Nov 2017

She also sang backup for Bette Midler early in her career.

One became a professional baseball player. ( St. Louis Cardinals )

Before & after my years in high school, the school also produced pro golfers, pro football players, other pro baseball players.





MANative

(4,105 posts)
8. More than one. The most infamous recently assaulted a US Senator in KY.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 05:42 PM
Nov 2017

No shit - Rene Boucher was a classmate. Signed my yearbook and everything.

Another is a reasonably well-known film producer in LA and another is a playwright. Yet one more is a very well-known attorney who has argued multiple cases before the US Supreme Court. We were a group of underachievers, apparently.

snowybirdie

(5,191 posts)
11. No but
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 05:45 PM
Nov 2017

Jenny McCarthy would sneak into my basement when my son threw parties when we were out. She had dark hair and not so many curves

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
12. The closest to famous of my classmates was a guy who was featured on the news
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 05:46 PM
Nov 2017

for rescuing several elderly people from a fire in their nursing home. He was hailed as a hero.

A few weeks later he was back on the news, this time because it was discovered he was the one who started the fire.

He was kind of quiet, but I noticed him because he was tall and so, so very handsome. Man, you never know.

PJMcK

(21,916 posts)
14. Quite a few from my high school
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 05:59 PM
Nov 2017

My favorite was Marilyn Chambers who was the Ivory Snow girl. She then went on to become a famous porn actress in the 1970s and 1980s.

PJMcK

(21,916 posts)
59. Aw, c'mon!
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 10:03 PM
Nov 2017

It's sorta obvious, isn't it?! (male snark)

Actually, what I meant was that she was my favorite because she became (in)famous because she went counter-culture. I grew up in the 1960s in a comfortable middle-class/suburban environment but I was always attracted to the opposites of my own life.

Ms. Chambers was a few years older than I but she had local fame as a model and actress. When she went into porn, nearly everyone I knew in town tried to disavow her. However, I always liked that she chose a different route for her life and she really seemed to enjoy her choices. To be clear, they were not ones I would make but I was impressed by her independence.

On the other hand, her life took some rather difficult turns and she died at the young age of 57.

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
61. Great response!
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 10:09 PM
Nov 2017

I appreciate your follow-up - quite the interesting response, for sure (and the male snark went both ways!).

And I agree, sad life path that ended way too early.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,320 posts)
114. She went into Porn when they still had actual story lines!
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 09:28 PM
Nov 2017

Back when they made actual, proper movies.

It's kinda cool that you have that sort of "seven degrees" kind of association with Ms. Chambers.

One of the few that can legitimately be called a true Great and legend of the porn film world.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
15. I wouldn't know
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 06:13 PM
Nov 2017

Last edited Mon Nov 20, 2017, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)

There was Channing Trotter a former RB for UNLV recently got busted for heroim.. His brother was really good I think even better but he was a DB.

Channing Trotter, Ex-UNLV Running Back, Caught With Weed, Heroin, and Gun, Cops Say

Channing Trotter, a former running back at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, was pulled over in Mesa yesterday after leaving what police describe as a "known drug house."

According to court documents obtained by New Times, Trotter was arrested for the second time this year after police found marijuana, heroin, "several drug pipes," syringes, and a handgun inside his vehicle.

Trotter was pulled over police ran his license plate while he was parked at the "drug house," and found that Trotter had a felony warrant for his arrest, as Trotter was arrested in February on charges of theft and trafficking in stolen property.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/channing-trotter-ex-unlv-running-back-caught-with-weed-heroin-and-gun-cops-say-6639661

That is Mesa for you a sad boring place to live.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
16. Glenn White went to Northside Jr High
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 06:18 PM
Nov 2017

He walked so upright..we resented him.

I put tacs on his chair...later when I read about his death I remembered our cruelty and felt horrible.

I was not a very good person back then, I also put tacs on the desk of our history teacher who always put his hands on his desk as he taught

On edit... http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/03/arts/glenn-white-ballet-dancer-42-a-joffrey-principal-and-teacher.html

Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
17. I went to the same high school and had the same speech teacher as
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 06:30 PM
Nov 2017

Cybill Sheperd. She was a few years ahead of me. She would occasionally come back to visit Mr. Hester, our speech teacher. This was in Memphis, TN. Although I made As in the class, I didn't follow her footsteps, obviously.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
35. AND She dated Elvis Presley in her day!
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:40 PM
Nov 2017

I lived in “High Point Terrace” when I was in Med school in Memphis and drove passed your alma mater nearly everybody day!

Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
72. No kidding, UT, eh?
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 11:59 PM
Nov 2017

Well my college alma mater was Memphis State, which is now University of Memphis. The high school I went to--along with Cybill--was Frayser High in north Memphis. High Point Terrace is actually a much nicer community than where I grew up. We lived in a neighborhood sort of between Frasier and Raleigh. HPT is, I think, more in east central Memphis (?) and more affluent.

Curious: I never understood why Frayser High was spelled differently than the Fraiser community.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
76. Well, Cybill is a graduate of East High on Poplar
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:17 AM
Nov 2017

I know the Fraiser/Raleigh area, at least I did in the late ninties early 2000’s...HPT may have been more affluent, but when we lived in HPT, at least the area we lived in closer to Sam Cooper....it was a ton of older folks who had built their homes there in the late 40’s to mid 50’s and a bunch of young professionals looking for cheap mid-century homes, lol.

Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
80. She went to Frayser High, although she might have graduated from East.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:33 AM
Nov 2017

I'm certain. We had the same speech teacher and it was a big deal there. She was gone by the time I was there, already a rising star by then. Now I have to validate it! I'll look for proof. I'll also ask my sister. She also went to Frayser and has a better memory than I do.

Don't know if you remember where James Road is; it intersected with Hollywood Blvd. We live around there. I haven't been back in over 20 years. No reason to.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
82. Dang I knew Hollywood and James Rd...havent been up there in about 20 yrs myself
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:45 AM
Nov 2017

Cybill may have attended Frayser High, that I don’t know...but I know for fact she graduated from East, check her IMDB bio. The only reason I knew that is because of the irony that she graduated there, and Elvis worked for the electric co that laid the electric lines when the school was built...and they dated, lol.

Now you’ve got me interested in why it’s Frayser High, also Frayser Park on James Rd and Fraiser for the area...gonna have to dig into that!!

The summer before and through my first two years of medschool at UT, I was a tour guide at Graceland...back when the tour guides were given books of info to memorize and regurgitate for tourists, before the age of tablets, which they have now, and before that tape tours, which essentially replaced my job. I used to know the majority of Memphis like the back of my hand because tourists would beg for any and every bit of info on the most esoteric places that had a connection to Elvis, even if they had long been torn down.

Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
84. My sister thinks it was East too.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 01:18 AM
Nov 2017

And her speech teacher taught at East and then Frayser many years later. Maybe that's why I think she went there, which is embarrassing because I've always told everyone we went to the same high school.

Another reason to be embarrassed: I've never been to Graceland. At one point I lived right down the street from it, in Whitehaven. I do remember when he died. I was a desk clerk at the Quality Inn right next to the old Memphis-Arkansas bridge. There was a huge convention (Shriner's, I think) and ZERO rooms available anywhere close to the city. Elvis fans just. poured. in. and there was no place to put them. It was a mess. I will always say, there is no greater fan than an Elvis fan.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
85. And Im embarrassed to say...
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 01:27 AM
Nov 2017

Other than working for EPE for two years...and frequently playing the piano when I was a lead tour guide opening and closing the house....was when I was still percolating inside my mother during that August summer when he died...I wouldn’t be born until winter of 78. She and several of her friends from work made the trek from Nashville to Memphis to pay respects during the public viewing!

In all seriousness, if you’re ever planning to go to Graceland, hit me up...I still remember every detail of the tour and will knock your socks off and make the tour worth your while!! Lol!

And, in a joke only people from TN will appreciate...see Nashville folks and Memphis folks CAN get along!!!

Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
86. LOL.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 01:37 AM
Nov 2017

Thanks for the offer, although I don't see Memphis in my future. It was fun talking about it though. I just kind of want to remember it as I left it. I'm sure I wouldn't recognize it now.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
18. No
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 06:33 PM
Nov 2017

But where me and my friends went to get high before school is now on the National Register of Historical Places.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
19. Anita Bryant a grad 1 or 2 yrs later
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 06:37 PM
Nov 2017

Guy who played Buddy Holly (Gary Busey) went to my HS, but I think he transfered to a diff school in town to graduate.

Several famous musicians of Tulsa sound graduated same year as one of my brothers.
Leon Russell. David Gates

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
20. Quite a few. Off the top of my head...
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 06:39 PM
Nov 2017

Friends:
David Tanis (author)
Susan Saiger (actress - Eating Raoul)

Classmate:
Edwin C. Moses (track star)

In my brothers' classes:
Mike Schmidt (baseball star)
Murray Horwitz (creator of Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me)

SeattleVet

(5,468 posts)
21. We had a few, mostly athletes...
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 07:10 PM
Nov 2017

Rodney McCray, Scooter McCray, Earl Tatum, Gus Williams, Ray Williams, Lowes Moore - all basketball
Ken Singleton - baseball
Denzel Washington - attended, but went to a private school before graduation
Heavy-D
Al B Sure
Jay Hoggard (jazz vibes player - knew him from Kindergarten to graduation!)


And a few before my time:
Art Carney
Dick Clark (was in the class ahead of my mother. His yearbook picture is a sort of Dorian Grey type of thing - he always looked the same!)
Ralph Branca (Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher of the 'shot heard round the world' in the 1951 World Series)
E.B. White (writer of 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little')
Michael Imperioli ('The Sopranos')

Some that also lived there at various times but didn't attend the high school when I was there:
James Bailey (of Barnum & Bailey)
Art Buchwald
Rudy Hackett
Sean Combs
Betty Shabazz
Phylicia Rashad


Actually, not too bad for a little 4-square-mile city of about 70,000 people!

TexasBushwhacker

(20,043 posts)
24. I went to high school with Robert Earl Keen
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 07:39 PM
Nov 2017

He graduated a year before me, but we both went on one of those 3 weeks on a bus student trips to Europe in the summer of '74. He was sweet and shy.

I've known Sec of Education Margaret Spellings since 3rd grade. Her family lived down the street from mine and I went to one of her birthday parties as a kid.

She played a major roll in "No Child Left Behind". She was also the one who objected to a PBS episode of a children's program where child had mom and a stepmom. I found her homophobia interesting considering she dated a gay guy in high school.

benld74

(9,888 posts)
26. Howard Keel graduated from my high school
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:25 PM
Nov 2017

Twitter founder graduated from our oldest’s high school

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,276 posts)
27. Loni Anderson. She was a couple years ahead of me
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:27 PM
Nov 2017

so I didn't really know her - I just knew who she was because she was one of the popular girls and got to be one of the "queens" of something (Homecoming, maybe). She's not a natural blonde.

Freddie

(9,231 posts)
104. She wrote a fabulous autobiography
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 01:03 PM
Nov 2017

"My Life In High Heels" - written not long after her ugly divorce from Burt Reynolds. She was happily making a living doing dinner theatre etc. in her native Minnesota but her husband at the time, also an actor, wanted to try for the big time in Hollywood. She kept getting parts, not him, especially after she went blonde; she wanted to keep her natural brunette hair but needed to put food on the table. Husband #1 couldn't deal with her fame while his acting career went nowhere.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,276 posts)
126. That's her, all right.
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:07 PM
Nov 2017

Same pic is in my very own yearbook! In those days we teased our hair and used buckets of hairspray (at least when dressing up for the school photo). The hair didn't move.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
29. Two classmates, along with one of their mothers, went missing after graduation and remain missing
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:31 PM
Nov 2017

The three of them are often known as the Springfield Three.

LeftInTX

(24,549 posts)
129. I used to watch alot of true crime shows
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:30 PM
Nov 2017

I remember they dug up part of a parking garage to no avail.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
30. I went to high school with novelist Thomas Cobb.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:33 PM
Nov 2017

He's probably best known for his first novel, Crazy Heart, that became a movie starring Jeff Bridges.

I didn't really know Tom in school, but he was at our 50th reunion a couple of years ago, and was quite nice and friendly. He's probably not famous enough to be recognized out in public, and his simply a guy who earns his living writing books.

Yonnie3

(17,376 posts)
32. Bruce Hornsby
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:34 PM
Nov 2017

We went to some of the same schools, but he was more than several years behind me. He graduated with my sister's high school class.

Orangeutan

(204 posts)
34. No one famous ever graduated from my high school. Ever.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:38 PM
Nov 2017

In the 131-year history of the high school.

The most famous was Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg.

You'll have to look him up.

But I did meet a guy once who went to high school with Farrah Fawcett.

royable

(1,263 posts)
37. One woman in my class of 400 became a state representative for at least 8 years
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:48 PM
Nov 2017

I suppose that's moderately famous.

Unfortunately she had an R next to her name.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
38. I can not remember how to spell his name but I will try.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:48 PM
Nov 2017

I might get his name a little wrong. I can not remember if he was ahead of me or behind but the German basket ball player Detlaf Shrimp or something like that. He was a exchange student at Centralia High School. Any basket ball fans can correct me on his name.

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
39. Kent State shootings...........
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:56 PM
Nov 2017

In high school we had a "yearbook geek" who was always walking the halls with his "twin-lens reflex" camera. After graduation he went to Kent State in Ohio and was walking around with a camera when the riot took place.

He'd done an internship at a local newspaper and called them to tell them that he had some pics of the "incident" that had taken place. They told him to take a cab home to deliver the film and it went "national" via the news wires.

His photo was on the cover of national magazines and papers. It was the girl kneeling by one of victims of the National Guard shootings.

The paper won a Pulitzer Prize that year and he went on to be photographer for a national news service.

Right place - right time!

Way to go, John!

beveeheart

(1,364 posts)
40. Not my classmate, but one of my favorite students:
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:58 PM
Nov 2017

LeRoi Moore, founding member, saxophonist for Dave Matthews Band. I always encouraged my students to choose a French name for French class and Leroy changed his to LeRoi.

I'm that he is no longer with us.

 

ClarendonDem

(720 posts)
43. Classmates with a couple of former NFL players
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:01 PM
Nov 2017

And friends with one. A friend of a friend turned out to be a relatively famous actress.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
48. Oh, yeah a friend of mine said that the hostess of Californication went
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:08 PM
Nov 2017

to our high school while we were there. I can not remember her name as I tried to be ignored by people and not pay attention to them and I watched about one minute and thought was stupid.

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
49. My former debate partner
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:17 PM
Nov 2017

is a multimillionaire investment banker and publisher. He sold his newspaper to Hugo Chavez. He is gradually working his way up in broadcast news with emphasis on Venezuela.

A member of the Mississippi Supreme Court
Baseball coach for a major college program


At my first High School. I was classmates with Lenny Dykstra.

madaboutharry

(40,150 posts)
53. Not me, but my mother.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:27 PM
Nov 2017

My mom went to high school with a current United States Supreme Court Justice. One of the good ones.

Freethinker65

(9,930 posts)
54. Not that I know off offhand, but my son graduated with Nick Fuentes
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:28 PM
Nov 2017

The right wing asshole kid that formerly attended Boston U and was in the news after the Charlottesville rally. I joked to my son that Fuentes just wanted to be on the high school’s wall of fame.

sweetloukillbot

(10,790 posts)
55. Two
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:35 PM
Nov 2017

1) Baseball Rookie of the Year Tim Salmon
2) Shannon Merketic - the beauty pageant winner who was held captive by the Sultan of Brunei.

Chester Bennington went to my high school as well, but after I graduated.

FuzzyRabbit

(1,958 posts)
58. Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:59 PM
Nov 2017

graduated from my high school a year or two before I entered.

One of my sister's classmates (3 years after me) was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

solara

(3,832 posts)
62. Senator Elizabeth Warren
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 10:10 PM
Nov 2017

went to my high school and graduated a year before me. She was on the debate team. I was in theater, so I knew who she was but we didn't hang out or anything.

LeftInTX

(24,549 posts)
130. She was one of my sister's law professors at UT
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:39 PM
Nov 2017

She and Liz became fairly chummy at law school and have remained friends since.

worstexever

(265 posts)
63. Our most famous classmate is Mary Youngblood
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 10:27 PM
Nov 2017

She won a couple of Grammy awards for her Native American flute recordings.

I was good friends with her in high school, where I knew her as Mary Edwards (she was adopted). She plays around locally and says she's semi-retired now and tired of travelling. I ran into her at our 40th year reunion a couple of weeks ago.

Iggo

(47,487 posts)
64. I went to two junior highs and four high schools, so chances are there's gotta be at least one.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 10:32 PM
Nov 2017

I never stayed long enough to know everybody, though, so who knows?

My little brother went to school with that "Blackie" kid from General Hospital. I heard he did rather well for himself.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I just remembered! I was on the tennis team in 10th and 11th grade with a kid named Stoney Jackson. He was in a bunch of TV movies back in the 70s. Don't get old, people. You forget shit.

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
65. Kenny G
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 10:34 PM
Nov 2017

though a few years after me. A year ahead: Franklin Raines, ex Director of Fanny Mae (controversial), Gary Locke, ex governor of WA, past head of US Dept of Commerce, ambassador to China.
Terry Metcalf - football player for St. Louis Cardinals & Washington Redskins

JDC

(10,081 posts)
66. Several professional athletes from my school
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 11:00 PM
Nov 2017

A few in the media also. One works for Al Jazeera now. Used to cover the Middle East for the AP. You’ve probably seen him reporting before. He’s no nonsense.

Efilroft Sul

(3,573 posts)
67. Michael Moorer, former heavyweight boxing champion.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 11:06 PM
Nov 2017

I've known him since first grade, and he just had his big 5-0 this past week.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
73. Respect The Hoff
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:09 AM
Nov 2017

Oh yeah, and someone named Nan Woods from a show I've never seen - China Beach. But I can't remember her.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
75. Yeah, and I still haven't bothered to look up her pic in the yearbook to jog my memory.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:12 AM
Nov 2017

Some day...

And then there is Jeff Hornacek

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
70. Not me - but Katherine Harris technically graduated with my little sister
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 11:49 PM
Nov 2017

Harris had gone to private schools but I think her family wanted her to graduate from the local public school for her political career so she attended the high school her senior year. The thing is, my sister got into college with early admission and never was in the school building for what should have been her senior year. She graduated from high school and got her AA degree at the same time.

So while my sister and Katherine Harris are listed as being in the same graduating class, my sister never met her. Too bad - they both have narcissistic personalities and probably would have gotten along great.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
78. A President of a major candy company. An author of many highly-regarded travel guides. A nationally-
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:26 AM
Nov 2017

known education guru. A quirky artist who's had her work shown in coffee table books. And a girl who is in a Dustin Hoffman movie.

Mostly, though, they were students of mine: A judge on a Reality Competition show. Parents of a famous pro golfer. An accessory to murder. A twice-published novelist.

But my biggest claim to vicarious fame is my first college friend. She won the Nobel Peace Prize as a member of a group of experts on uranium and nuclear science.

becca da bakkah

(426 posts)
79. I Have Two, That I Can Think Of......
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:27 AM
Nov 2017

.....off hand. I shared a gym locker senior year with Theresa Graves. She of "Laugh In" fame, and later her own, pioneering, series, "Get Christie Love." ("You under arrest, sugar!&quot And baseball great, Doc Ellis was a few years ahead of me. His wife, or maybe former wife, Paula Washington, was in my typing class. She was also prom queen.

I just remembered, also US District Judge Garland Burrell, who presided over the Unabomber trial, back in 1997. He was in my grade, although we never had any classes together. Quite the track star at the time.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
83. Our high school quarterback during my senior year
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 01:03 AM
Nov 2017

ended up playing for Stanford, setting records that were only broken by John Elway, and ultimately, he played pro ball for both the Vikings and the Rams.

But, he never achieved any fame at that, and after Howard Cosell in his column referred to my classmate as a third string benchwarmer, it was pretty much over for him.

Still, nobody ever heard about the rest of us.

stollen

(414 posts)
111. 8 degrees of separation or less
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 04:22 PM
Nov 2017

Our family friend was the brother of Mare Winningham. Mare went to Chatsworth HS, where she met and "worked" with Kevin Spacey in HS performances, each getting further involved in drama classes and beyond. I only knew the brother.

woody44

(34 posts)
91. Have a couple .........
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 02:51 AM
Nov 2017

A year ahead of me was Kathy Young.........she had a one time gold record for a song "A Thousand Stars in the sky" in the 60's. I remember her coming to the school and singing it at the auditorium.

Also, a band member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Of late, years after I was gone is Snoop Dogg.

Upthevibe

(7,879 posts)
93. Farrah Fawcett, W.B. Ray High-Corpus Christi, TX......
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 03:14 AM
Nov 2017

She graduated in 1965 with my Brother....I graduated 10 years later in 1975. Chris Layton, who graduated one year ahead of me with my Sister in 1974, was the drummer in Stevie Ray Vaughan's band Double Trouble. And the gal whose family owns What-a-Burger also graduated one year ahead of me - Lynn Dobson. She's worth 2 BILLION dollars now! She's a wonderful Liberal/Progressive who has been very involved in philanthropic endeavors throughout the world. Go W.B. Ray Texans!

Kali

(54,990 posts)
92. Jesse Valenzuela (Gin Blossoms)
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 03:14 AM
Nov 2017

(he also played the wedding march at my wedding, his sister was my maid of honor)
also Hugh Hallman who went on to become Mayor of the City of Tempe

some other people I don't know (sports, mostly)

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
96. Much younger than me, but one was on SNL.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 10:35 AM
Nov 2017

Tim Kazurinsky. I don't remember ever seeing him on SNL however.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,043 posts)
112. He was only on for 3 seasons
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 08:16 PM
Nov 2017

He was on at the same time as Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. He also wrote a few screenplays. I think the character he was most known for on SNL was Dr. Jack Badofsky.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/newsbreak-segment---dr-badofsky/n8933?snl=1

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
118. I forget the premise and actual jokes
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 12:14 PM
Nov 2017

but he did a regular skit that involved holding up flash-cards. I remember liking his bits.


I went all 4 years of high school to a private religious school in Texas. My graduating class was a whopping 17 people. 2 of whom I know are dead and the rest pretty much right-wing fundies. But none are famous for it (or anything else that I know of)

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
122. I went to a large city high school.
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 02:11 PM
Nov 2017

My graduating class was around 1200, if I remember correctly. It is much smaller now, but it's hard to believe that so few famous people came out of a school with that many grads. Oh well!

DFW

(54,051 posts)
98. Not in my class (just ahead of me), but from my high school(s) for sure. One good Guy. One less so.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:11 PM
Nov 2017

When I was in DC, Roger Ferguson was in the class ahead of me. He always had an entourage of students following him around asking questions about everything--because he KNEW everything. It came as no surprise to me that he ended up as vice-chair of the Federal reserve. His IQ is so high, he could have shared it equally with another person and they would both have been brilliant.

My last year of high school was at a boarding school that I entered (and subsequently hated) when I got back to the States from Spain/Catalunya. A couple of years ahead of me, there had been a very undistinguished legacy student (his dad, a congressman at the time, was my alumni interview). This student went on to become the 43rd president of the United States--a position he was accorded just as undeservedly as the diploma he got at graduation.

PennyK

(2,300 posts)
99. Lenny Bruce attended my elementary school!
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:13 PM
Nov 2017

in Bellmore, Long Island. Also, Ben and Jerry became friends doing extra laps around my high-school track.

malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
100. Four of the five starting offensive linemen in my HS went on to the pros...
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 12:49 PM
Nov 2017

... but other than that, I got nuthin'.

-- Mal

Skinner

(63,645 posts)
106. Sean Patrick Thomas and Dennis Brockenborough were in the grade above me.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 01:15 PM
Nov 2017

I did high school plays with Sean Patrick Thomas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_Thomas

And I sang in the school chorus with Dennis Brockenborough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Brockenborough

Not exactly household names, but I think they qualify as famous.

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
107. Classmate made it to the NFL and later management with the Colts
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 01:28 PM
Nov 2017

Couple of years behind the actress that played Donna on All my Children.

Couple of years ahead of Bella Shaw from CNN

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
108. John Fitzgerald (Dallas Cowboys football star, Southbridge Native and....
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 02:46 PM
Nov 2017

also my stepbrother William Joel "Taz" DiGregorio (January 8, 1944 – October 12, 2011) was a longtime member and keyboardist for the Charlie Daniels Band. He was born and lived in Southbridge, Massachusetts until 1962 when he went on the road. He was self-taught on the keyboards, practicing from tunes by Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Little Richard following his attendance at a Ray Charles concert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_DiGregorio

Noodleboy13

(422 posts)
113. I went to High School with Pete Docter
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 08:30 PM
Nov 2017

He wrote and directed WALL-E, Monsters inc., Up. and was involved in the writing of pretty much most all of the Toy Story movies.


peace,
Noodleboy

Grammy23

(5,808 posts)
115. I didnt know her she was ahead of me in high school.
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 09:55 PM
Nov 2017

But it was Betty Buckley who is a Broadway star. Arlington Heights High School, Fort Worth, TX. I think she graduated in 1965.

She sang at Casa Mañana in Dallas, I think, during her high school years.

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
119. A high school classmate of mine stole the Pentagon Papers
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 01:16 PM
Nov 2017

The drug addled idiot burgled Daniel Ellsberg's house in Mill Valley, California, and a copy of the papers was part of his booty. I did not even know Ellsberg lived in my town at the time.

The interesting story was Ellsberg trying to get the papers back, but they were being held as evidence at the county seat. The Feds were fighting to get them, too, because it was their property.

A genuine copy of the Pentagon Papers sat in the evidence vault at the Marin County Civic Center because they hadn't invented eBay yet. Hell, my drug addled idiot 'buddy' must have written a million letters of authenticity over the years, "Would have, could have, should have been".

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
121. I went to art school with the future Talking Heads.
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 01:55 PM
Nov 2017

David, Chris, and Tina.

also future film director Gus Van Sant.

Glass artist Dale Chihuly was teaching there, before he became famous.

Martin Mull had graduated earlier, came back and performed. Charlie Rocket, was also briefly on SNL, and played a role on "Moonlighting" as whats-his-name's brother used to MC all the school events. He was hilarious.

Nobody famous from my high school, that I know of.

musette_sf

(10,184 posts)
123. Angela Bofill was a year behind me
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 02:16 PM
Nov 2017

but we sang in the chorus together for years.



Some famous (and infamous) alums after my time:

Elena Kagan
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Chris Hayes
Cynthia Nixon
Thunder Levin (writer of Sharknado)
and... (the infamous) Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli, who, PS, never graduated...

bearsfootball516

(6,369 posts)
127. I graduated high school with Tyler Eifert
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:14 PM
Nov 2017

Cincinnati Bengals tight end. Had a couple of short conversations with him. Really nice guy.

Misskittycat

(1,916 posts)
128. Benjamin Netanyahu
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:23 PM
Nov 2017

Prime Minister of Israel. I'm not a fan.

During his teenage years, his father was a visiting history professor at a university in Philadelphia, so he attended my high school in suburban Philly.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
131. Martin Sheen was my older brother's classmate. We were friends with him and his brothers.
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:42 PM
Nov 2017

His younger brother Joe was in my class. We all caddied together at the local country club. My cousin married one of his brothers.

His real name is Ramon Estavez. We still see each other at funerals but that is about it.


llmart

(15,499 posts)
132. No one famous in my high school...
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 09:46 PM
Nov 2017

It was much too small. However, my father went to high school with Jesse Owens.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
133. The closest I think my high school came to fame was having Kevin McHale play in our gym.
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 10:00 PM
Nov 2017

He was from Hibbing, MN. and 5 years older than I am. The pictures I have seen of him from that game are embarrassing, he could jump at least a foot higher than any player on our team.

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
134. Not me, but two of my friends were in Kim Basinger's HS class.
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 10:30 PM
Nov 2017

She was very beautiful, became famous as a "Breck (shampoo) Girl" model and only dated college boys.

Many years ago, my then boyfriend spotted her and her then husband, Alec Baldwin, shopping in our local Kroger at Thanksgiving.

WyLoochka

(1,629 posts)
138. Gilda Radner
Sat Nov 18, 2017, 12:54 AM
Nov 2017

Liggett School - in Detroit then moved to Grosse Pointe. Now - University Liggett

"lower school" - I went to a different "upper school". Gilda was the best - always. Very kind and thoughtful person. Huge heart. Especially fun at slumber parties.

Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
139. Several who are famous now went to my school
Sat Nov 18, 2017, 07:38 AM
Nov 2017

Natalie Cole, Laura Linney, Uma Thurman and Valerie Jarrett were all fellow graduates, but Valerie Jarrett is the only one who was close enough that we might have crossed paths, but we never did.

And the only one I know about who was infamous was William "Cujo" Wolfe - of Symbionese Liberation Army fame. I recognized the name among alumni deaths when he died, but the school never took credit for him, unlike the others. I didn't cross paths with him, either.

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
140. One became a Repug vote suppressor and voter fraud alarmist extraordinaire.
Sat Nov 18, 2017, 12:34 PM
Nov 2017

Nomination to the FEC by Shrub withdrawn, appointed to 45's Advisory Committee to Suppress Democratic Votes.

Also a climate change denier (after being a star science pupil in high school !) and Muslim immigrant ban apologist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky to examine his "qualifications".

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
141. I had a classmate who orchestrated a murder plot against the president of the young Republicans
Sat Nov 18, 2017, 01:16 PM
Nov 2017

at his college. He was a Republican, but he wanted to be president of the club. He got in some legal trouble, but I don't remember what it was.

July

(4,750 posts)
142. Mark Murphy, Green Bay CEO
Sat Nov 18, 2017, 08:55 PM
Nov 2017

He was a year behind me in high school. Didn't know him well, but knew him as a good guy. He played both football and basketball, IIRC. Also academically talented.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
143. University High in W.L.A.: Notable actors, musicians, athletes, and one murderer.
Sat Nov 18, 2017, 10:06 PM
Nov 2017

What must be only a partial list of UniHi notables (grad year noted if available):
Richard Anderson (actor)
Mackenzie Astin 1991 (actor)
Eric Avery (rock bassist, Jane's Addiction)
Jan Berry 1959 (singer/songwriter, Jan and Dean)
Karla Bonoff (singer/songwriter)
Jeff Bridges 1967 (actor)
James Brolin (actor)
David Cassidy (actor)
Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (musician, punk-rock pioneer, the Germs)
Sandra Dee, born Alexandra Zuck, 1958 (actor)
John Densmore (rock drummer, The Doors)
Bobby Driscoll (Academy Award-winning child star)
Danny Elfman (musician, Oingo Boingo, film composer)
Kim Fowley 1958 (rock musician/producer)
Judy Garland (singer/actor)
Peggy Ann Garner (actor)
Jill Gibson 1960 (singer and artist)
Omar Gooding (actor)
Barry Gordon 1966 (actor)
Kim Gordon (musician, bassist, Sonic Youth)
Jane Harman 1962 (congresswoman for California's 36th Congressional District 1993–99, 2001–11)
Jason Hervey 1990 (actor)
Bruce Johnston (Beach Boys singer-songwriter, Grammy Award winner)
Jack Jones 1957 (singer)
Brian Kingman 1971 (professional baseball player for Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants)
Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman 1958 (real-life “Gidget,” who inspired the novel and its later film and television adaptations)
Patricia Krenwinkel 1966 (convicted murderer, member of Manson family)
Robby Krieger (guitarist/songwriter, The Doors)
Bill Lancaster (screenwriter, son of actor Burt Lancaster)
David Lang 1974 (Pulitzer prize-winning composer)
Nan Leslie (actor)
Lorna Luft 1968-70 (singer/actor, daughter of Judy Garland)
Betty Lynn (actor)
Sue Lyon (actor)
Bryan MacLean 1964 (singer/composer, musician with the band Love)
Samantha Mathis 1988 (actor)
Doug McClure (TV and film actor)
Roddy McDowall 1946 (actor)
Maria McKee 1982 (singer/songwriter, Lone Justice)
Kevin Millar (professional baseball player)
Penelope Ann Miller (actor)
Marilyn Monroe (actor)
Shelley Taylor Morgan (actor)
Dave Navarro (musician, Jane's Addiction)
Randy Newman (singer/composer)
Ryan O'Neal (actor)
Mel Patton (1948 Olympic gold medal sprinter; former world record holder, 100 yd & 220 yd dash)
Paul Petersen (actor)
Bonnie Raitt (singer-songwriter/guitarist)
Stephen Reinhardt 1949 (judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
Tommy Rettig 1958 (actor)
Herb Ritts (photographer)
Kira Roessler (musician/bassist, Black Flag)
David E. Shaw (investor/computer scientist)
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (singer/conductor, son of Frank Sinatra)
Nancy Sinatra 1958 (singer/actor, daughter of Frank Sinatra)
Pat Smear (musician, punk rock pioneer, the Germs, Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
Steve Smith, Sr. (NFL wide receiver)
Felicia Stewart (doctor/author)
Elizabeth Taylor (actor)
Marshall Thompson (actor)
Tone Lōc (born Anthony Terrell Smith) (hip-hop artist)
Dean Torrence 1958 (singer, Jan & Dean)
Rick Van Santen 1980 (co-founder Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival)
Jay Walker (NFL quarterback, 1994–1998; Maryland House of Delegates District 26, 2006–present)
Howard Wolpe 1956 (Congressman, Michigan's 3rd Congressional District from 1979 to 1993)
Steve Wynn (musician, songwriter, The Dream Syndicate)
Titus Young (NFL wide receiver)
Jordan Zevon 1988 (musician, music producer, son of Warren Zevon)

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
144. I must have gone to Undercheiver High
Mon Nov 20, 2017, 10:44 PM
Nov 2017

Our mascot was A Nobody

Close brush with infamy: guy I graduated went missing when Jeffery Dahmer was on the prowl in Milwaukee, just disappeared without a trace. Presumed to be a victim

For years, that was the claim to fame for our high school, a victim of cannibalism

Then long story short, after 2 decades, it turns out he just took off and started a second life far away from Milwaukee, he died and his wife called his family to clear up the mystery.

Kaleva

(36,146 posts)
145. A graduate of a local HS was a victim of Jeffery Dahmer
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:30 PM
Nov 2017

After graduation, he moved to Milwaukee and disappeared shortly after. Jeffery identified him from photos as a victim.

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