A DAY TO REMINISCE
A DAY TO REMINISCE
The memories of school days will always be fresh and cherished by all. The carefree days, the playful pranks we would have picked on our class mates, the innocent banters and the emotions and enthusiasm of young age, are always difficult to wipe out from the memory screen. Those memories are kept alive if you have the rare opportunity of meeting your old friends every once in a while.
It is a very rare occurrence and does not easily happen in everyone’s life. Some students, who graduated from Gonzales High School Class of 1939, would not have imagined that they would get to meet even after 70 years of graduation, that too with a teacher who taught them at the school. For the last so many years they have been meeting every six months and the last 25 meetings have happened at the Sno’s Steak and Seafood Restaurant. On the said day, seven members of the 1939 batch along with their teacher Marguerite Boudreaux Himel, met at the restaurant and relived their old times. There were no school buses in the first three years and they had to go to school by a wagon. One of them, Gracie Mae Bourgeois Bolling, recalled that they early school bus that they traveled in had only benches, and everyone would be jostling the other, sitting back to back at the center. All of them also recalled with fondness that if the school did not have afternoon classes, they would never have had the opportunity of attending school, but would have had to pick strawberries, as they all cam from agricultural families. The school always started in July and ended in April.