Remembering BHS & JFK

In the previous post we visited my alma mater, Barrington High School, and saw the front steps. The older front steps had a visitor in fall, 1960, when Sen. John Kennedy gave a brief speech during his campaign for President. I was a freshman and I had gotten a spot to stand just 10-12 feet from the future President. His motorcade then left the school and actually drove right by my house, where Mom saw him from our yard. A nice memory not seen here.
As I walked through the highly-rearranged academic area, no rooms were open, of course. But I gravitated toward the room where I had senior math, 6th period, every day. I was good in math, but I never ever liked it. And on the Friday I remember, I put my head on my desk and stopped all student function along with every one of my classmates. It was November of my senior year, 1963, and the President had been assassinated. Through the classroom door window, I could see through to the courtyard beyond. I could see and I could remember, a powerful memory, but not a good one.

Barrington High School

I was asked if I could pick up a photo shoot -- water polo, of all things -- in a last-minute schedule problem. Sure. But it is at a different school. Which one? Barrington.
Had to take it. I graduated from Barrington, a fine school, in 1964. I had only been back once, when I refereed a basketball game there in the 1980s, and I had been able to walk through some unfamiliar halls. So off I went, and got there more than two hours early. Walked all around the school, much of which was not there in '64. Walked through most of the academic wing as well.
Here we see the front door, in the same basic location but redesigned. Here we see Lincoln, looking the same but in front of the school rather than to the east side. Here we see a Bronco sculpture. You can guess it is far too new to have been here so long ago.
In the next post a peek inside.