Tim Price:
CLASS OF 1975
Central High SchoolClass of 1975
Springfield, MO
Tim's Story
I was a member here somewhere in the vicinity of ten years ago when there were a lot fewer members and of those fewer still who were familiar to me. During a recent Google inquiry into a name that popped into my head I was led back to this site and after a couple of days I decided to reestablish myself.
My father was in the military so I spent my youth making and subsequently leaving friends behind to do it all over again. I always envied my relatives and the friends that I made who grew up with the same friends throughout their youth, but I realize that the tradeoff was that I was provided many opportunities to see things that many people will never see and that would now cost me a small fortune to repeat.
Central High School will always hold a special place in my heart because it is there that I finally completed what at the time seemed to be the arduous task of climbing that ladder of education to ring the bell and achieve that hallowed document, the HS diploma.
I only attended there my senior year, but the friends I made and left behind will always occupy a very special corner of my heart.
Actually, when the school year began my brothers and I were enrolled at Parkview and it was during the few days there I think I met Carl...Expand for more
os Mendoza. When I transferred to Central he sat behind me in Mr. Van Hook's Bookkeeping class and recognized me. He became my first friend there. What a wild man he turned out to be.
It wasn't long before I was hanging out with the "freaks" and the "heads" and that pretty much summed up the rest of my school career at Central.
Upon graduation I went to Snelling & Snelling where they told me to cut my hair and get a nice jacket to do job interviews. I cut the hippy hair, borrowed a tan jacket from Carlos and off I went in search of my future. About a month into the search I was ready to throw a brick through the plate glass window of the local S&S office, refraining only because I had gone the military route and didn't want to get in any trouble. I never get away with anything... hardly.
Anyway, on October 7th, I left my tearful mother and a handful of wellwishing friends and a girlfriend and in a matter of a couple of hours was pulling into Fort Leonard Wood to begin my 4-1/2 year Army career.
By the time I was discharged on April 1st, 1980 I had been married, had a child, divorced and mostly enjoyed a stint in Germany. That year I would see my daughter again and then not see her again for another 19 years.
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