“Dear ret5hd

We have received numerous requests to remove mention of you in our yearbooks. Most say they don’t remember you and the others state “he is too obnoxious to be acknowledged”.

Would you object if your picture were replaced with someone more likable? In past circumstances such as these. we have licensed the images of Brad Pitt, Julia Robert’s, et al.

Thank you for your time,
xxxx.xxx

I moved from England to Iowa when I was 14 and I remember being taken to a "pep rally" - I had never seen something so ridiculous, I asked the cheerleaders, why aren't you playing your own sports?

In those days, the late 50s, football was everything and being a cheerleader was a prize achievement. They were all females and only the most popular girls got to be one. They dated the popular guys on the football team and went to the prom with them. The senior prom was the big deal. Being asked to the prom from a star football player was the ultimate in popularity. I was on my way to drama school so I was "different." I was miserable about it until I got into a prestigious school and had a whole new set of priorities in my social life.

(to be fair, moving from England to Iowa was an extreme culture shock in itself)

it was highly coveted to be on the sidelines cheering for guys - it all seemed very degrading to me. I remember one cheerleader trying to tell me it actually WAS a sport but I didn't buy it - I just couldn't understand why they would rather do that then participate in sports themselves

OH and I had blonde hair down to my ass and a slight accent so the football players were ENTHRALLED with me, but I wanted nothing to do with them, they came across as a bit thick to me LOL

sounds like you did good

... or maybe some cute equivalent of that.

I managed to avoid every picture day, make-up picture day, and picture-or-else day in my two years of high school and there was no way I was going to buy an expensive book to remember the place.

One of the best decisions I've ever made was to flee.

Some of my classmates did not survive the experience.

DU is my only social media and I've had many email addresses over the years so I'm not sure how a yearbook digitizing place could find me.