Top 10 kids...10 years later

Bromfield2
Fri, 26 May 2017 02:23:32 +0000

I don’t remember who the top ten students were in my class, but I did go to my 45th reunion not too long ago where I learned what people were doing. The valedictorian (who went to Vassar) was a college professor at a directional state U and the salutatorian (who went to Smith) had committed suicide.

Of the group of kids who were in my circle of friends, there were a few teachers, a doctor, a PR executive, an engineer, a nurse, a dental hygienist, and a guy who was the retired CEO of a food services company.

This was a working-class high school in a midwestern city where half of the class didn’t go to college. Of those who did go, the top two students were the only ones who left the midwest. The rest of those kids going to college were off to the local community college or the state flagship (Big 10) or one of the other state schools.