Seekonk High School - Seekonk Yearbook (Seekonk, MA)

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In sports, the home team was nearly always on top. First, our beloved Red Sox miraculously pulled off a pennant victory only to have it skip through the legs of then first-baseman Bill Buckner in one of the best-known blunders in World Series play: winners and losers. Even our Patriots, charging at the whites of everyone’s eyes, pinned down the AFC Championship only to come up against one of the strongest teams in NFL history, those shuffling Bears. And how about our very own Celtics, the pride of the Commonwealth? They are the NBA standard, against whom all great teams will be measured. Lakers may come and go, but the Celtics will always be on top. We saw the likes of Doug Flutie, Marvelous Marvin, Vinny Paz, Pitino, the Friars and the Final Four. Even in our own backyard we’ve seen some of this state’s best high school athletes and teams. The number of cham- pions our class has witnessed in four years, espe- cially this our senior year, is a credit to our athletic staff, and especially us, the graduating Class of 1988 We all experienced the proms and dances, the house parties and summers on the Cape, the weekends in Newport and the ritual biannual perusing of Boston markets. These are a given for New England natives like ourselves. SAT’s and Achievements were taken. Some performed stupendously, and others did not. Some of us have plans for college, and others do not. We may all look back on this and think that we all took the expected course in life. This is not tragic; this is what we are all about. Our history is documented here on these pages, perhaps a copy of classes from the past, or even a blueprint for those yet to come. Nonetheless, Class, we’ve made it. How and for what significant reason remains to be seen.

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Four Years in the Life This is it people, class and all concerned parties. The Seekonk High School Class of 1988 is now fading into perpetual Memoryland. Just think; no more classes, no more books, no more having to push and shove and be beaten sense- less trying to worm your way to the front . Of the slush puppie line. And papers, and tests, and quizzes, out the window for good — unless of course you're col- lege-bound. Four years in one spot can sure cramp one’s imagination, yet none can say that not one person didn’t at least laugh, or smile, or feel lonely, or sad, or even a bit frustrated at times. These are all natural emotions for vacil- lating semi-adults. Now we're at the crossroads, the looking-back time. i Do you remember: Mr. Hurly and the camping trip? How about the school store? Or those hour-long homework assignments miraculously completed in ten-minute homeroom periods. And Mr. Dias, Principal 1? And whatever hap- pened to those fluorescent clothes into which many girls invested huge sums of money, only to have seen the style fade faster than anyone could buy a Relax T- shirt or even say, “‘Relax?’” There were the preppie fads, and New Wave fads, and even Murphy fads. Our class was also unique in that our generation expe- rienced many crashes. First, there was the tragic 1986 Space Shuttle loss which rocked the nation and devastated NASA’s quest to explore the last and greatest frontier known to man; later, in the autumn of our senior year, we also witnessed Stock Market Crash II, a Black Monday we’ll surely all remember. There was also Bopal, Chernobyl] and the advent of mankind’s new red death, AIDS.

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Jennifer Perry Greg Duquette Lori Pacheco Jill Baldani Scott Hallworth Jill Thibault Kim Goula Jamie Woodhead Todd Hayes Lisa Watson Jen Alexander Andy Penacho Pam Drumm Bill McCormack Sheryl Moline Ken Tait Brian Bell Dawn Damiani Debbie Levine I Mike Ferriera Cheryl Costa jill Arters Chris Mallon E Jo Anne Leclerc Jeff Howell Cathy Leghart Tracey Everett Peter Jennings Daryl Jasper Sue Veader Rick Grima Dave Borah Lisa Phillips Paul Vergilis Kristin Vergilis Brooke Coelho Trevor Bechtel Chris Smith Crystal Sylvia Heather Grimshaw Chris Vartanian Kim Mello Karen Boyadjian John Whelan Stefanie Derouin Yvette Fernandes Greg Casper