Ryan Nagel:  

I attended Washington from first to fifth grade (1989-1994). I wore that red jacket a lot, and have a lot of warm memories. I loved the playground, the yearly carnivals with the dunk tank and miscellaneous activities and games in the hallways. I was a jogathon participant and remember really going for it on the home stretch of each lap. There were door-to-door calendar sales, the second and third grade basketball team, and my gigantic crush on Terra! I got paint in Heather's hair once during class, much to her horror... Some of the classrooms had high windows that were opened on warm days with a long pole. There was heavy use of slap bracelets, some great tetherball matches at recess, and really good friends. The sun shining against the blue and white gym exterior during school events like the maypole dance still sticks out in my mind. Oh, and "warball," anyone? Barely bounce it over the midline and everyone's groaning. I had a red DuckTales lunchbox, and in the cafeteria was often aware of the traffic light which would emit shrill noises when the collective lunch room chatter got too loud. Was there really Windex spilled into a batch of chicken nuggets once? The cafeteria also had a stage and was the site of a few plays including Scrooge, starring Zach. There was Oregon Trail on the original floppy disks in the library computer lab and informational filmstrip reels. My lifelong fascination with historical disasters started with a viewing of "Secrets of the Titanic" on classroom video or ...Expand for more