Jill Faucher-Ross:  

Life Hello to all. Many of you from Plainfield High may or may not remember me. My hair was a blond-brown then, but now I color it auburn. I was one of the few white girls there. I was extremly shy awkward,clumsy and geeky, but very sweet. My family went through terrible termoil. It was the 1970's and unemployment was in the double digit percentage. My father, who was a poor, common laborer from Maine, found it hard to find work and he had just lost his job. We were evicted from our beautiful house on Park Avenue in Plainfield and had to move into a condemned building in Trenton,where we survived for one year for shelter. This did a terrible number on me and my brothers as Trenton was a terrible place to live and our whole family came from Plainfield, our hearts and loyalty were there and even my grandparents went to Plainfield High. We eventualy moved to Maine where my father was raised, but although it was a lot better than Trenton, and a lot of people will disagree, I did not find Maine to be 'the way life should be' and have tried to come back home to NJ several times only to fail because it was just too expensive for a poor woman like me and her family to live there. People who leave N.J. always seem to think that the grass is greener on the other side. I have always loved my home state and the closest school to my heart will always be Plainfield High and the amazing people I had the chance to meet and go to school with. People like the chorus class with Mrs. Hannah Teraine(Sorry if i spelled that wrong!). People like Gwen with the beautiful soprano voice. James Doyle and his hysterically funny immitation of Little Richard in the program we put on that was called 'A tribute to the Appollo Theater Greats'. Ronald Graves and his great piano playing. The colorful Myers sisters, Debbie, Denise and Dianne. I remember Karen with the voice of an angel and her boyfriend Edd...Expand for more