Winter Park High School

Dennis Martin has recently shared some of his amazing and detailed memories of our high school days on our class Facebook page. Those of us who are members of the group "Winter Park High School Class of 1967" on Facebook have thoroughly enjoyed his often hilarious posts! We hope that all of you will now be able to enjoy reading them on this website. Your own memories just might pop up to the surface as you relive some of the things Dennis describes. PLEASE share your memories with us! You are invited to write blog posts for this site! Help all of us remember...before our memories go!!!

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July 22, 2016

Miss Wright Part 2 The Principle of Equality

By Dennis Martin

In my 35+ years of teaching math, I had lots of little stories to illustrate different points in mathematics. There is one mathematical habit that Miss Wright taught us and insisted on. It’s such a simple thing to do. On the first day of every math class I taught, after th...

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July 21, 2016

Miss Wright Part 1 ?Go Tigers!?

By Dennis Martin

I had Miss Wright for homeroom all three years, so I saw her every day. I had her for Algebra II, and I was her student assistant along with Jim Pflueger during part of our senior year. We would sit in a windowless closet at the end of the hall next to Miss Wright’s classroom...

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July 20, 2016

Who Kissed Me?

By Dennis Martin

Bruce Winslow and I were selected to be ushers for the graduating class of 1966. The duties were easy. We were to lead the graduates into the auditorium, then stand at the end of each aisle, count 20 students per row, then step back a row and allow another 20 in the next ro...

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July 19, 2016

To Glenridge and Back: Natural or Artificial?

By Dennis Martin

Noting the obvious, WPHS didn’t have a football stadium or track & field facilities on campus. So, how did WPHS become so dominant in track and field? How did WPHS become so feared around the state? How did we become the first HS team to take the Miami Relays trophy out of...

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July 19, 2016

Ms. Hill?s Election Fraud

By Dennis Martin

I worked on the WiPaHiSc the last half of our senior year. Miss Hill (or was it Mrs?) was our advisor. If you look up the word “daffy” in the dictionary, there will be a picture of Ms. Hill. Loveable but a bit touched. Her classroom was always in disarray. Sometimes she wou...

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