YOUR SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL

[What year was it?]
My senior year was the year Ronald Reagan became president. 1980. I graduated in May and he was elected in November. Before he was elected, I was in the US Army.

[What were your three favorite bands?]
The Go-Gos, Fleetwood Mac, KISS

[What was your favorite outfit?]
t-shirt, jeans, western-styled boots

[What was up with your hair?]
pretty long for a guy in Kansas.

[Who were your best friends?]
Didn’t really have any – I was a transfer student from a smaller town nearby and didn’t know anyone “in the big city” of Emporia.

[What did you do after school?]
Worked at Sonic or sat at home listening to music.

[Did you take the bus?]
nope.

[Who did you have a crush on?]
Kristy McNichol

[Did you fight with your parents?]
constantly – who didn’t?

[Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?]
Kristy McNichol

[Did you smoke cigarettes?]
Yes.

[Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?]
No. I didn’t use books much. I only had 3 classes, and 2 were practicals.

[Did you have a ‘clique’?]
Nope, I was an outsider and a loner.

[Did you have “The Max” like Zach Kelly and Slater?]
i have no idea what that means.

[Admit it, were you popular?]
No

[Who did you want to be just like?]
nobody

[What did you want to be when you grew up?]
US PRESIDENT

[Where did you think you’d be at the age you are now?]
Starting my first term in the oval office.