Steven Flickinger:  

Hello again to all of you. It is great to find so many faces and voices from the past.................and hopefully from the future! If you are reading this, then you are probably trying to figure out who I am, if you know me, and/or what's going on with me now. I'll start a little earlier than the BHS days. Based on some the questions I have received, this is some necessary primer. Junior high school: I attended middle school (i.e. junior high school) at Meadowbrook Middle School in Poway, California. The grades were 6th through 8th. One of the unique things about that experience was the multi-age (MA) program. A few classes had the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders combined in common classrooms. It was quite an experiment, but had overall good results. Another point of interest is that my last name wasn't Flickinger at the time. I still carried my surname from birth. This is going to really mess up people (like Ron Topp) who try to look me up in the '76-'79 Meadowbrook yearbooks! I became a Flickinger after my mother remarried and we moved to Bremerton. High school: I attended Poway High School for the first semester (still not a Flickinger yet). In California, the high school grades are 9-12 whereas in Washington they are 10-12. It was great to be in high school. It felt like an achievement after all the junior high years. My step-father was in the service (Navy). The submarine we were assigned to was sent to PSNS for overhaul, so we moved to Bremerton. I finally became a Flickinger in name. I attended Central Kitsap Junior High School for the second semester of 9th grade. Yep, I was unhappily a "pumpkin head" for half a year. I met some nice people there, but it was a real disappointment to "go back" to junior high. For the 1980-81 school year, I was delighted to attend Bremerton high school. It felt like I really belonged there, and there were so many good people. I played football for the sophomore team and did the sets/lighting for the drama club. I dated Melody Knapp for the entire year (and most of the following year too). I attended First Christian Church of Bremerton over on Veneta Avenue on the West side. Some of us that went to school and church together are Tracy Burns, Andy Perdue, Cathy Neal, Rochelle Dix, Diane Guertin. I lived on Olympic Avenue over by the shipyard's Naval Avenue gate. Summer was filled playing baseball and football. There were "pick-up" games all over town. It seems like we played from morning to sundown every day. Good times. The 1981-82 school year was very much the same as the prior year except that I didn't play football for the school. I did the sets and lighting for the drama club. That was an excellent group of people - both years! I attended the Kitsap Peninsula Vocational Skills Center and was in the electronics class. For fun you should check out the photo section of my profile. I annotated a couple of the yearbook pictures that tried to show that I didn't really exist for football or the KPVSC. As for the drama club photos, I stayed out of them since I thought it was more appropriate for the actors/actresses. At the end of the 1982 school year, the submarine we were assigned to was supposed to move out of PSNS and back to San Diego. Painfully, my world was being ripped...Expand for more