For this interview, I spoke with my dad’s mom, Julie Johnson, about her high school life. She was a student from 1971-1975. I thought it would be fun to see what it was like to be someone my age over 40 years ago. And it was very interesting! I liked getting to learn more about a different time period from someone who lived through it.
We will be discussing your high school life. Where did you go to school, and what was your school like?
I went to school at Central Lyon in Rock Rapids. The average class size was about thirty-five kids. I had over one-hundred kids in my entire grade, which was normal compared to other grades. Grades kindergarten through six were just Rock Rapids kids. And for grades seven and up, kids from Doon came over and joined us.
For activities, I was in concert and marching band where I played the trumpet. I was also the assistant editor for the school newspaper. At that time, they let us interview people, take pictures, tell stories, and more about what was going on in the …show more content…
My mom was a legal secretary in Sioux Falls until she got married, then she became a housewife and took care of me and my sister. Housewives were rather common; mothers often didn’t have a job since they had so much work to do at home. She did a lot of volunteer work, but she was making no money so we lived in a one-income household. My family--and most of the people I knew--were very frugal since they grew up during the Great Depression. We were taught not to waste anything. For example, we had to wash and reuse plastic Ziploc and bread bags (we hung them on the clothesline to dry), aluminum foil, and plastic cups. All leftover food was eaten and zippers and buttons had to be saved from old clothes to be used again as well as the fabric. Any junk mail we got with blank sides were put in a kitchen drawer for notepads and
We will be discussing your high school life. Where did you go to school, and what was your school like?
I went to school at Central Lyon in Rock Rapids. The average class size was about thirty-five kids. I had over one-hundred kids in my entire grade, which was normal compared to other grades. Grades kindergarten through six were just Rock Rapids kids. And for grades seven and up, kids from Doon came over and joined us.
For activities, I was in concert and marching band where I played the trumpet. I was also the assistant editor for the school newspaper. At that time, they let us interview people, take pictures, tell stories, and more about what was going on in the …show more content…
My mom was a legal secretary in Sioux Falls until she got married, then she became a housewife and took care of me and my sister. Housewives were rather common; mothers often didn’t have a job since they had so much work to do at home. She did a lot of volunteer work, but she was making no money so we lived in a one-income household. My family--and most of the people I knew--were very frugal since they grew up during the Great Depression. We were taught not to waste anything. For example, we had to wash and reuse plastic Ziploc and bread bags (we hung them on the clothesline to dry), aluminum foil, and plastic cups. All leftover food was eaten and zippers and buttons had to be saved from old clothes to be used again as well as the fabric. Any junk mail we got with blank sides were put in a kitchen drawer for notepads and