Today I completed my facebook cv by adding the high school diploma I received in 1962. It is from Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Nebraska. Although it is a modest public school, its wiki page contains a list of notable alumni. I did not make the cut. I recognize only three names of those listed: Dick Cavett, Ted Sorensen and Charles Starkweather.
I was at Lincoln High only two years (grades 10 and 12). During my freshman (grade 9) and junior (grade 11) years I lived in Newark, California, where I was bused daily to the very large Washington Union High School in Fremont. (The “Union” was dropped in 1961 after the opening of Logan High School in 1959, and two more high schools in 1961 to relieve overcrowding at Washington Union High.)
Notable alumni (Lincoln High School)
- Dick Cavett – entertainer and author
- Sandy Dennis – Academy Award-winning actress
- Mike Fultz – drafted 32nd overall in 1977 NFL Draft by New Orleans Saints
- Melissa Harrington – aka “Melissa Midwest”, pornographic actress
- Dixie Kiefer – U.S. Navy commodore, served in both world wars
- Bill Kinnamon – Major League Baseball umpire
- Les Mann – MLB player for Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Giants
- Shirley Marsh – Nebraska state senator
- Bernie Masterson – NFL player and winner of 1940 NFL Championship game with the Chicago Bears
- Roger Nelson – former MLB player for the Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals, and Cincinnati Reds
- Ted Sorensen – special counsel to President John F. Kennedy
- Charles Starkweather – responsible for murders of 11 people in the 1950s
- Les Witte – two-time consensus All-American basketball player at Wyoming
- Willard Witte – men’s basketball head coach of 1933–34 Wyoming national championship team
I added my name in Wikipedia to the list of notables.