Home of the Eagles

Way back in the day -- the fall of 1988 to be exact -- I began my freshman year at the public high school in Stayton. The photo above is the front of the gymnasium, a place I tried to avoid, despite pesky physical education requirements.

It was at that school I took one year of French, which I passed only because my best friend at the time already spoke it fairly fluently (her mother's from France), so she pulled me through. Thank you, Tiffanie, wherever you are.

The high school takes in kids from other smaller towns in the area, and has 850+ students according to their web site. It also has (at least, it did when I was there) an interesting symbiotic relationship with the nearby catholic high school, where some of their students would come over to the public high school for a few classes, such as French. You know, the one I almost didn't pass.

But I will always remember the teacher who took over for the regular French teacher, who was on maternity leave. Her first name was Barbara and she had a brother named Ken. Yes, friends, they were Barbie and Ken.

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