The Denver colorado airport, where three strangers share their high school memories, all three just passing through. Connie Blankenship and Lorie Butler were going to California to golf, Robert Wilson was on his way home to his wife in Oklahoma.

Students today are very accustomed to their lifestyles, wearing sweats to school and driving our own cars every day. High school in the ‘60s was much different than it is now. Girls and boys were treated as opposites, the world was a much different that it is today.

“You couldn’t wear slacks, you had to wear dresses,” said ‘60s Student Connie Blankenship.

Connie Blankenship and Lorie Butler both grew up in the 1960s and shared what clothing was like in high school for them.

“Walking shorts were considered not lady like for girls,” Blankenship said “Boys were dressed in button down shirts and pressed slacks at my school.”

Blankenship attended a high school of 150 in a graduating class of 48; she never got the chance to experience a freshman year as there were only three years of high school when she was in school.

“After junior high I had to start riding the bus seven miles by myself every day to get to high school in the next town over.” Blankenship said.

Connie’s best friend, Lorie Butler, chimed in when asked if there were any memories she cherished most from her time in high school.

“Sports were for me, if I wasn’t at home studying I was on the court playing tennis,” Lorie Butler said “I couldn’t imagine what high school would’ve been like without playing sports.”

Lorie graduated five years after Connie, when Connie was in high school girls were not allowed to play sports. Connie claims she spent most of her years with her nose in a book.

“I may not have gotten to play sports in high school but I was Homecoming queen in my senior year,” Blankenship said.

High school was much different for boys than girls, Robert Wilson was a military child in the early ‘60s and moved six times during his school years.

“My dad was always getting moved, in my high school years we lived in Florida and Oklahoma. I remember when we left the beach side for the plains I was so angry with my parents.” Robert Wilson said.

Once settled in Oklahoma Wilson attended Midwest City High School. Wilson claims he never got to play school sports because of the amount of times they moved, but said he did enjoy dirt biking in his free time.

“I liked to keep to myself mostly, except for when there were pretty gals around, I loved to show off on that dirt bike it was the highlight of high school for me.”

Dirt biking ended for Wilson halfway through his senior year when his mom made him focus on school for college.

“I was so upset with her (his mother) when she told me I couldn’t go biking anymore, it did help my school work though. Once I hung up my helmet I never looked back and moved on with my life.” Wilson said.

Wilson claims that after he stopped dirt biking for his last few months of high school, he enjoyed life much more.

“Quitting really opened my eyes to what I was missing, I met friends started hanging out at football games and the drive ins’ just like everyone else. My high school years were some of the best years of my life, even with being moved.”

Like Wilson, Connie agrees that she enjoyed high school but says she liked college better.

“I liked high school, but just wait till college, that’ll be the time of your life” Blankenship said.

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