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.