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[quote=Anonymous]Many, many people in the Jefferson community hate the fact that they were robbed of their community school.   If they didn't hate it before, they do now:

"You can often find a posting on facebook indicating where the next Kilroys- Jefferson reunion will be held.  On any given week friends of “Old Jefferson” or Regular Jefferson” , will gather together, at that familiar drinking hole to pay homage to days of old.  Perhaps friends will gather simply out of nostalgia, or unfortunately to celebrate the life of another Jefferson alumnus who has graduated from this world to the next.

My memories of Jefferson are vast.  I remember the first time I entered the building as a freshmen, nervously walking the halls trying to find my locker for the first time.  I remember the first time I went to a Friday night football game,  sock hop or participated in Spirit Week.  I remember the first of several hundered times of falling in love, getting into fights, or mocking Coach Faulk.  I remember when Ronald Regan came to our school after it was originally post-poned after the space shuttle strategy.  I remember the very first time I put on that Jefferson football jersey and ran onto the field with my teammates.

I remember when we first heard that the school was changing to SCI Tech and that the class of 1987 would be the last “regular” graduating class.

While I remember these things now, at the time most of us held few thoughts as to what that meant for the future.   We were too bogged down with the parties at Chucks house, trying to graduate, or who we would date next to began to understand the repercussions of what that meant.

We were too self imposed to understand what this decison meant for the class of 1988 who had to merge with our rival school down 236 west.

As a Father of 3 teenagers, it is only now when I go to watch my son play football at TC Williams does it dawn on me the injustice we “regular Jefferson” were dealt.

Two years ago I decided to take in a Jefferson Football game.  At that time the sci tech football team had not only lost all their games, but they had not even scored a single point.

Our football teams seldom faired better, but it never determined the out pouring of students, staff, and community from attending the football games every Friday night.

When I attended the sci tech game the stands were dismally shallow.  The few students who were there we more intrested in tossing footballs behind the bleachers while many of the parents in the stands were there to watch there son play.  There was no community of yesteryear at the game because in 1987 Regualr Jefferson cease to exist.  Gone with it, a sense of community.

Last season I attended TC Williams first night game in over 30 years.  The bleachers were standing room only, as alumni from the schools early beginnings were on hand to watch the football game.  There was laughter, tears, hugs, as friends and loved ones gathered at their “ol school”.

You wanted to write a book about the history of the school.  I think it’s important to understand that the decison makers did a poor job with the merger and eventual takeover.  There was no reason that JHSST had to kill JH all together.  There should have been more of an attempt to bridge the new with the old at least as far as alumni is concerned.  AT the very least, we would could have a place to come home to during Home-Coming.

Sadly, our reunions are held at Kilroys in Springfield- our surrogate home."
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