Ok lets hear for Annandale HS since everyone talks about south lakes.

yeah, that school whos mascot is the atom becuase it was built with a atomic bomb shelter.

haha the school that needs a cop per every table in the cafeteria

Did anybody know that Mark Hamill (the guy who played Luke from Star Wars) went to Annandale High back in the late 60's?

Atoms Alumni Wrote:
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> Ok lets hear for Annandale HS since everyone talks
> about south lakes.

seriously, in December 03 (my senior year at AHS) there was a brawl after school and my friend got hit in the face with a golf club and got his teeth knocked out, at the same time, while a different fight was taking place, some MS-13 kid was stabbed on the other side of the school.

AHS w00t!!

I was class of '01. I hated those Trailers, I hope they got rid of it. I never looked back, or went back there after I graduated. It was starting to get on my last ur with fights between blacks, Latinos, and other east Africans.

Times have changed folks. In my day there was ONE black dude in the entire school of 2000+. And a few Asians (Japanese).

The rest was lily white.

The BIG games back then were Annandale vs. Woodson or Annandale vs. Stuart. Falls Church played tough occasionally too.

No Chantilly, no Westfield, no Centreville, no South Lakes, no West Potomac (later formed by merging Groveton & Fort Hunt high schools), no Robinson, Fairfax High School was where Paul VI is now.

Hammond High School and George Washington High in the City of Alexandria fielded some decent teams in those days, both defunct now.

I know that it doesn't really have anything to do with Annandale VA, even with the reference to William and Mary making it seem like a song about VA, but you still gotta like Steely Dan....

Class of '66 Wrote:
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> Times have changed folks. In my day there was ONE
> black dude in the entire school of 2000+. And a
> few Asians (Japanese).
>
> The rest was lily white.
>
> The BIG games back then were Annandale vs. Woodson

Not much was different ten years after that.

(Well, maybe the number of minorities had quadrupled
from the numbers you're citing there... :)

I think it really started changing right after that.

Needless to say, there were no gangs or anything back then.
The "really bad kids" sometimes cut classes or smoked.

I wonder if the "temporary" classroom trailers are still there?

I don't think the graduating class paints the chimney any more.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2009 03:28AM by Spacy.

Spacy Wrote:
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> Class of '66 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Times have changed folks. In my day there was
> ONE
> > black dude in the entire school of 2000+. And
> a
> > few Asians (Japanese).
> >
> > The rest was lily white.
> >
> > The BIG games back then were Annandale vs.
> Woodson
>
> Not much was different ten years after that.
>
> (Well, maybe the number of minorities had
> quadrupled
> from the numbers you're citing there... :)
>
> I think it really started changing right after
> that.
>
> Needless to say, there were no gangs or anything
> back then.
> The "really bad kids" sometimes cut classes or
> smoked.
>
> I wonder if the "temporary" classroom trailers are
> still there?
>
> I don't think the graduating class paints the
> chimney any more.

Didn't you guys have a "student lounge" where you could smoke?

I had a friend who's sister graduated from Madison in 1983 who said she was able to smoke in the student lounge up until 1981 or something like that.

My sister went to Madeira, and they had a smoking lounge where students could smoke if they had signed permission slips from parents, as well. I think at Madeira, once they were seniors, it didn't matter whether they had parental consent, but that was back when the legal smoking age was 16. I think it was only those under 16 who needed parental permission to smoke.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2009 04:09AM by Bob.

Class of '66 Wrote:
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> Times have changed folks. In my day there was ONE
> black dude in the entire school of 2000+. And a
> few Asians (Japanese).
>
> The rest was lily white.
>
> The BIG games back then were Annandale vs. Woodson
> or Annandale vs. Stuart. Falls Church played tough
> occasionally too.
>
> No Chantilly, no Westfield, no Centreville, no
> South Lakes, no West Potomac (later formed by
> merging Groveton & Fort Hunt high schools), no
> Robinson, Fairfax High School was where Paul VI
> is now.
>
> Hammond High School and George Washington High in
> the City of Alexandria fielded some decent teams
> in those days, both defunct now.

Merging Groveton & Fort Hunt was the ultimate in School Board chutzpah. Would be kind of like merging Falls Church with McLean today, except more so.

Anyway, Annandale was definitely the football dynasty of the 60s and much of the 70s. I think Stuart won regionals one year in the mid-70s. Woodson and Stuart were better at basketball, or at least Stuart was when Jim "Bozo" O'Brien (who later played at Maryland) was there. Falls Church was the best at baseball. And Jefferson pretty much sucked at sports across-the-board, even before it was a school for smart kids.

Spacy Wrote:
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> ....I don't think the graduating class paints the
> chimney any more.


The chimney is only about 2 or 3 feet high now and not visible from the front of the school. They must have took it down when they expanded the girls' gym a few years ago. That chimney served the incinerator room. Mr Schreiber, the shop teacher used to send me there with trash from the shop to be burned. I guess they don't that in this day and age!

There is another chimney around back that students still paint, poorly I might add. Maybe only a handful graduate these day?, the rest quit or are in jail by graduation time!

I don't remember there being trailers in my day, but there's a lot of them now. There was a really shabby addition that housed the math wing.

Remeber the gas pump in the back parking lot? School buses and police cars gassed up there, that's long gone.

PS: I was Class of '68, not '66. Typo!

Class of '66 Wrote:
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>
> Hammond High School and George Washington High in
> the City of Alexandria fielded some decent teams
> in those days, both defunct now.

Both defunct now...actually I think they are both now middle schools. Hammond won the Northern Region in 1969, over Falls Church HS, one of the few good years that FCHS had, in addition to their state runner-up year in 1977. Annandale was the class of Fairfax County schools as far as football was concerned through the 60s and into the 70s, though.

On the other hand, you surely must know that Hammond and GW high schools in Alexandria are defunct because they were merged into T.C. Williams in 1971, creating the team that won a state championship and has been "immortalized" in the movie, "Remember the Titans".

Bob Wrote:
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> My sister went to Madeira, and they had a smoking
> lounge where students could smoke if they had
> signed permission slips from parents, as well. I
> think at Madeira, once they were seniors, it
> didn't matter whether they had parental consent,
> but that was back when the legal smoking age was
> 16. I think it was only those under 16 who needed
> parental permission to smoke.


Sorry,Bob, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Yes, the smoking age was 16 at the time, but I don't think Madeira would have violated state and federal law by allowing those under sixteen to smoke on campus even with parental permission slips. That's like a college allowing Freshman to drink if they have a waiver signed by their parents; They are still violating the law.

> Bob Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> My sister went to Madeira, and they had a
> smoking
> lounge where students could smoke if they had
> signed permission slips from parents, as well.
> I think at Madeira, once they were seniors, it
> didn't matter whether they had parental
> consent, but that was back when the legal smoking age
> was 16. I think it was only those under 16 who
> needed parental permission to smoke.
>


Madeira? Since when do mid-level military officers pay Madeira tuition?

They're usually tight as the bark on a tree....want a free ride on everything.

All this talk about Annandale HS is really funny. Falls Church High rocked
back in the day!

Star Wars Wrote:
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> Did anybody know that Mark Hamill (the guy who
> played Luke from Star Wars) went to Annandale High
> back in the late 60's?


where did Leia go?

ferfux Wrote:
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> Star Wars Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Did anybody know that Mark Hamill (the guy who
> > played Luke from Star Wars) went to Annandale
> High
> > back in the late 60's?
>
>
> where did Leia go?

I don't think Skywalker was there for a full year, btw.
(Perhaps Dagobah was his second premature exit from an educational situation...)
He transferred in and out; family was moving around I guess.



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Class of '68 Wrote:
> I don't remember there being trailers in my day,
> but there's a lot of them now. There was a really
> shabby addition that housed the math wing.

Yes, the "temporary" math wing was still there in my day,
and there were also two standard FCPS trailer classrooms
out back. (Can't remember what classes were in there.)

The math wing was replaced with new construction sometime
in the late 80s or 90s, and they put in an industrial
kitchen for vocational training.

ferfux Wrote:
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> Star Wars Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Did anybody know that Mark Hamill (the guy who
> > played Luke from Star Wars) went to Annandale
> High
> > back in the late 60's?
>
>
> where did Leia go?

Beverly Hills High School.

But Sandra Bullock went to Washington-Lee and Julianne Moore went to Stuart for at least a couple of years.

that kid that got got his face broke in with a golf club was either darren or matt h. and they deserved it. it was over drugs. the dude that got hit in the face w/ the golf club brought it to the fight and got it taken away and used against him. priceless