Gary Perrine:  

Hey HUSKYS!!! Gary Perrine here. Hey, I wrote this April 2, 2017.. Wow, what to say about my 3 years at RHS? 1965 thru 1968 was the 'years of the Baby Boomers' and said to be the largest volume of students EVER in the history of Detroit Public Schools at the time. I remember being wedged in along with my fellow students between classes at RHS en masse to get to our next class out in those hallowed halls! We were like cattle being herded to and from wherever we were heading. OMG. They gave us FIVE minutes to get to your next class! A bit of a challenge, eh? I remember the frat/greaser culture of that era, the BMF dances and Friday night dances in the RHS gym, always with a live band. I remember 'tobacco road' outside the front of the main building near the flagpole where I went between classes to grab a smoke, OR grabbed a quick cigarette 'smokin in the boy's room'. Tsk tsk, eh? I remember frat boys often wore madras shirts, white levis and penny loafers, while the girls wore coolottes. The greasers? Don't remember, I made it a point to avoid those thugs. They seemed to like to make life miserable for us frat boys being the punks that they were! I remember academics being a challenge...the teachers were tough graders do you think? Some may not agree with that but I did not do real well academically with anything more than average grades at RHS. The principal, Mr. Baumgartner, had a rather good system in place to evoke discipline throughout the school...G...Expand for more