Polly ~ 7th grade, N. Oberon JH 1971

Polly Linkletter
Couldn't decide whether The Unicorn Song or Puff the Magic Dragon was her favorite, and seemed to be addicted to Pixie Stix, her lips varying daily between a vivid pink, a sickly lemon yellow or bluish green.

Sammy ~ 7th grade, N. Oberon JH 1971

Sammy Kolfax
the neighborhood boys were secretly relieved she couldn't play on their baseball team because not only could she out-run, out-hit, and out-catch the best of them, they'd suddenly noticed she smelled really good.

Todd ~ 8th grade, N.Oberon JH 1972

Todd Svinkmeyer
following an unfortunate joke in the frog anatomy lesson in biology class, was saddled for many agonizing weeks afterward with the embarrassing nickname of Toad Sphincter.

Frida ~ 7th grade, N.Oberon JH 1971

Frida Tannenbaum
with a little discrete picking, could work up a horrifying gusher of a bloody nose on cue, which came in very handy every spring on the day of the AAHPER fitness test 600 yard run/walk.

Timothy ~ 7th grade, N.Oberon JH 1971

Timothy Small
used to love to buy Big Hunk bars at the pool at North Jeffco after swimming, but stopped going there altogether after someone pinched his wiener underwater.

Sharon ~ 8th grade, N.Oberon JH 1972

Sharon Podgorney
from her vast collection of photos, albums and memorabilia she lovingly rendered photo realistic pencil drawings of the Beatles in Art class, and somehow blamed herself a little for the band breaking up.

Trick ~ 8th grade, N.Oberon JH 1972

Trick Merew
prophetically launched his dismal athletic career by becoming the first kid in school history to sustain a bloody injury in badminton.

Lori ~ 8th grade, N.Oberon JH 1972

Lori Hinkle
wept for days after seeing "Little Big Man," began wearing beads and feathers in her hair, and dreamed of having Dustin Hoffman's baby.

Dick ~ 8th grade, N.Oberon JH 1973

Dick Ringsby
still spent every Saturday morning in his pajamas watching "Johnny Quest" over a boxful of Quake cereal, with a glass of Tang and a half dozen Space Food Sticks.

Robbie ~ 7th grade, N.Oberon JH 1971

Robbie Romano
was one of the fastest kids on the track in gym but slowest to the boy's locker room showers, dreading every day the twinges he might feel there.

Darlene ~ 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Darlene Osmond
incessantly listened to her 45 single of the "Ode to Billie Joe" and desperately yearned to throw something off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

Donnie ~ 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Donnie Slyk
in the middle of a lilly white middle class suburb threw the N word around with abandon, and his mother forbade him to hang out with the "hippy" boy down the street.

Brian ~ 8th grade, Oberon JH 1972

Brian Mulrooney
had secretly drawn crude nudie pictures inside the pocket flaps of his Pee-Chee with a ball point pen.

DeeAnne ~ 8th grade, Oberon JH 1972

DeeAnne Spasky
utterly uncoordinated and totally uninterested, hated the daily humiliation of gym class with a passion. And those hideously itchy royal blue polyester jump suits you were required to wear didn't help one bit.

Ellen ~ 8th grade, Oberon JH 1972

Ellen Weber
was fitted with an uncomfortable mouthful of metal braces over the summer between 7th and 8th grade and we never saw her sweet smile again.

Kevin ~ 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Kevin Drotard
along with a loose bunch of boys, attended the Arvada Plaza theater's afternoon double feature of "What's the Matter With Helen?" and "Let's Scare Jessica to Death," the sheer cold horror of which, way beyond anything he ever before imagined, terrified him for decades.

Cheryl ~ 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Cheryl Gobb
used to wear her hip huggers revealingly low, inspiring much sport amongst the mischievous boys behind her in class to see who could toss a dirt clod into her exposed butt crack. Consequently, while she suffered the embarrassment, they suffered the D's in Math.

John - 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

John Phlegm
wore an unhealthy sallow pallor and was the least popular kid in the lunch room mostly due to his eating habits of dropping half chewed gobs out of his mouth and draining milk from his nose.

Marty - 8th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Marty Nez
a minor league bully who lashed out at the small and unsuspecting for no apparent reason, one time spraying a kid all over with deodorant in the locker room until the victim finally fought back with a wet towel whipped across Marty's face. The angry and retaliatory shoving of the kid into the wall marked the beginnings of a long held malevolent grudge, if not a drop of caution.

Butch - 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Butch Frank
embraced the fad sweeping the nation, donned a ski mask, streaked naked all the way around the school, and into detention.

Candy ~ 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Candy Bayonet
never met a friend she wouldn't betray as soon as a better prospect came along. After a time the halls were littered with the wounded and the wary, yet there were always those new innocents to think she was "just super nice!"

Gib -7th grade,Oberon JH 1971

Big Gib Jimson
The Bill Sykes of Fitzmorris Elementary had been held back for so many years he dwarfed and terrified those around him. He was finally passed on to 7th grade older if not wiser. Frequently found holding court just beyond the far fence, smoking cigars and nurturing an air of menace, aided immensely by an antler handled hunting knife.

Randy -7th grade. Oberon JH 1971

Randy Butz
wished he could move back to Scott's Bluff Nebraska where they didn't make fun of his name.

Suzie- 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Suzie Standofer
One in a sea of nearly anonymous faces, she disappeared one day and no one noticed, except the boy who sat next to her in Social Studies who had just the day before realized how cute she was.

Debbie ~ 7th grade, Oberon JH 1971

Debbie Kingsley
kissed the neighbor boy under the juniper bushes. It was prickly and felt weird.

7th grade - Oberon JH 1971

Todd Fishman
had a skanky galvanized tub on his back porch teeming with tadpoles and other primordial creatures he'd fished out of Ralston Creek.

7th grade - Oberon JH 1971

Donny Slotnik
made the loudest and most convincing race car shifting noises, and dreamed of driving in the Saturday matinee demolition derby at Lakeside Motor Speedway.

7th grade - Oberon JH 1971

Mikah Malcin
had a drawer full of four dozen identical balls of navy blue socks.