http://songsfromaspiraltree.com/blog/2009/05/25/freedom-is-just-another-word-high-school-pt-1/ "In a world always late afternoon, In the circular smells of a slow wind, I listen to the weeds' vesperal whine, Longing for absolutes that never come..." Theodore Roethke Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:26:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://songsfromaspiraltree.com/blog/2009/05/25/freedom-is-just-another-word-high-school-pt-1/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Gail Rae Hudson Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:10:55 +0000 http://songsfromaspiraltree.com/blog/?p=31#comment-40 So, here are my additions to this part of the conversation: Guam was (and probably still is) a Catholic island. Although I didn't attend Catholic school, about half of my friends, boys and girls, did. Social functions at regular high schools were not taken seriously by the students, but they were at the Catholic high schools. I don't remember who "my" prom king and queen were...don't even remember the process of selecting them. In my social circle, which was typical of most social circles in my high school, we bought tickets to the prom in order to garner permission from our parents to stay out all night, but none of us went to the prom and we didn't necessarily party together. One of my very close girlfriends, though, was heavily involved in the social affairs of her Catholic high school. I remember all her agonizing over the prom, which, frankly, floored me. I was actually relieved that my school didn't seem to rally around typical high school social celebrations. A fisted salute to your class nomination of C.C.! What a great idea! It's VERY interesting to me that the nuns had a "sanitized version of youthful sexuality" that they felt obligated to impose upon their students. I would have loved to have been a student participant in that face off! So, here are my additions to this part of the conversation:
Guam was (and probably still is) a Catholic island. Although I didn’t attend Catholic school, about half of my friends, boys and girls, did. Social functions at regular high schools were not taken seriously by the students, but they were at the Catholic high schools. I don’t remember who “my” prom king and queen were…don’t even remember the process of selecting them. In my social circle, which was typical of most social circles in my high school, we bought tickets to the prom in order to garner permission from our parents to stay out all night, but none of us went to the prom and we didn’t necessarily party together.
One of my very close girlfriends, though, was heavily involved in the social affairs of her Catholic high school. I remember all her agonizing over the prom, which, frankly, floored me. I was actually relieved that my school didn’t seem to rally around typical high school social celebrations.
A fisted salute to your class nomination of C.C.! What a great idea! It’s VERY interesting to me that the nuns had a “sanitized version of youthful sexuality” that they felt obligated to impose upon their students. I would have loved to have been a student participant in that face off!

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