In honor of this week’s Throwback Thursday and the recent celebration of the ten year reunion of High School Musical, Lemont teachers were asked to think back to their own high school years and spill what their favorite memories were.

Mrs. Melei: English Teacher

Her favorite high school memory was at Pontiac High School in 1985, where she was given the “punk rocker award” during Homecoming week, which was just a rock painted black, but she remembers this memory with happiness and a smile.

Mr. Priestley: History/Social Sciences Teacher

He says that his fondest memories involve his Pink Floyd cover band titled “Eclipse” which he was in with his friends who would play at various Battle of the Bands shows.

Mrs. Henderson: English Department Chair

She says that her favorite memory from Lyons Township High School was going to a journalism workshop at Ball State University for yearbook, which she was the Editor in Chief for, with a group of friends. It was there that she first developed her immense love of Chocolate PopTarts.

Mrs. Doornbos: Chemistry Teacher

She says that she has “too many” good memories because she was quite fond of her high school, for it was this one. But her ultimate favorite memory was being able to do the announcements during Homecoming week and altering the announcements to fit that day’s theme. She says that one day, they sang the loyalty song and on a different day, they held a mourning ceremony for the team that lost the games, having the band play ‘Taps’ over the intercom.

Mrs. Horan: Physics Teacher

At Bolingbrook High School, she says that besides graduating, her favorite moments of those four years involved all of the dances that she went to. Her favorite of all of them being Senior Prom because it was “the best ever.”

Mr. Doherty: Music/Band Teacher and Assistant Activities Director

He, too, attended LHS and says that he has a lot of good memories from here, most of them surrounding the musical of his senior year, 2002, which was The Music Man. He says that is was just a happy moment for him because he was surrounded by such fun people and got to end his last year right: by procrastinating finals and spending time with his new girlfriend, now wife, before having the moment dawn on him that finals still matter and his Chem II Honors one was the most daunting task for him to tackle.

Mrs. Hitchcock: Mathematics Teacher

She says that her favorite part of high school during her enrollment in Coal City High School was the Friday night football games because her friends and her would all go together and paint their faces to cheer on their fellow Coalers.

Mrs. Szafranski: English Teacher and Journalism Sponsor

She was the editor of Eisenhower’s yearbook her senior year and she had the opportunity to go to a yearbook camp with her friends and being able to plan the entire yearbook. She also lowkey loved how her AP Bio teacher would let them get McDonald’s milkshakes in the mornings when they when they weren’t studying like crazy.

This is what the  teachers think, what about you? Don’t “stick to the status quo” and “bop to the top” of this school year, to break into summer with a ton of new and fun memories because after all, “we are all in this together”.