nerd survey

[bloke]

Show a picture of your band letter, any all-region/state patches and other junk you were awarded when in high school.

If sewn to an athletic jacket, all the better, and it will double your nerd score.

[arpthark]

Oh, man. I'm staying at my parents' house for the week. This is a prime time for this venture.

[Paulver]

Mine are all gone. Worn out, outgrown, and thrown away long ago by my mother! (Wore them while working on the farm in HS and college.)

As a kid, I was also a millionaire right up to the day my mother threw out my baseball card collection!

She also threw out my cap, gown, and tassel from my college graduation. Sad and funny at the same time.....that action was during her episodes with TIA's and dementia. She also threw out incredible amounts of family pictures..... by the box loads. We never knew it until she passed away and we couldn't find anything. GONE!!

[UncleBeer]

Looks like this might have been taken in my junior year in HS.

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[Grumpikins]

We were not given patches.... we were given stickers.. that usually ended up on school instrument cases like the the ones put on luggage when people traveled years ago. I think the only thing i have left is a jpsousa award that was a little brass trophy deal.

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[bloke]

I discovered my band jacket. It's thick wool, and maroon. By design, it doesn't look as cool as the athletic letter jackets, but it looks pretty good and it's got all that crap sewn on it. Maybe I'll take a picture.

[Uncle Buck]

Funny, I still had all those patches in a box in storage until just a few months ago (33 years after high school graduation), when I opened that box for the first time in many years, had a moment of nostalgia, and then threw them all away.

[Mary Ann]

Long gone, but my letter said ORCH on it.

[Breavdah]

Oh I didn't get the message was I supposed to stop wearing my corps jacket at some point?

[cjk]

Our letter jackets were the same as the athletic jackets. Mine had some patches on it. No idea where it went, but it's gone. I doubt I ever had a picture taken with it while on my person. I don't think I have any of my high school yearbooks, either.

[Three Valves]

Wish I still had some of that stuff...

[iiipopes]

OK. Here you go. I still have my jacket in mothballs. Marshfield, Missouri class of 1980. Extra Nerd factor: the two medals on the Letter on the front are winning the geometry competition, gold for open geometry and silver for metric geometry, at the regional university math relays. Oh, yes: and Boys State. Further nerd credit: you can see the stocking cap peeking out of the pocket. Lettered in chorus all four years, band junior and senior. Add all state choir, NHS, all the district band patches, and a music stipend to undergrad, and I was the biggest music nerd to ever come through the high school. Oh, yeah: the small old English script M on the left sleeve: participation in freshman sports. No letters were given for participation in school plays.

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[Three Valves]

Impressive!

Only slightly disappointed there is no AV Club pin/letter/patch.

[iiipopes]

Impressive!
Only slightly disappointed there is no AV Club pin/letter/patch.

Thanks. I was too busy in music and my other extra-curricular activities to be on the yearbook/newspaper staff. I had the longest senior line-item listing in the back of the yearbook, in addition to being Salutatorian. I missed Valedictorian by a small fraction of a GPA to a guy who wasn't involved in any extracurricular activities, and may have gone to college; none of us are sure. I think he became a fundamentalist preacher, but we all lost track of him. Add to the above my scholastic scholarships, 30 hours of college credit through CLEP bubble sheet tests, and I truly was one of the biggest nerds out there back then. As I said above, no letters were given for school plays, but I did participate in the cast, and I was the assistant to the gentleman from the local electric co-op to hang stage lights (we had no dedicated light booth), and I did run sound for one of the choral productions with my own equipment.

[arpthark]

Okay, I think I've out-nerded everyone except maybe Scott.



My high school letter (no jacket) with band patch and a stripe for academic team. Governor's Cup academic team championship medals in social studies, arts and humanities, writing, English, and quick recall (quiz bowl/Jeopardy type thing). All State patch for one of my three years in KY all-state. I was first chair/orchestra my junior year, and 2nd chair my sophomore and senior years.



More academic team medals from later in high school in the same subjects. KMEA marching band state finalist my four years in high school, and I did indoor drum line one year (playing synthesizer).



Governor's School for the Arts summer program takes about 20 kids across the state per year in music, and got me a full ride to UK. The photo looks like it's from 1975, but that was my high school style for ya.



Foster Music Camp at Eastern Kentucky University was every summer from me from the time I was in middle school until junior year of high school. Private lessons, great bands, swimming in the lake, basically a mini Interlochen type thing.

[Tubajug]

I lettered in band, but never bought a jacket. They didn't fit my style...(fedora, suits, and long overcoats).

[humBell]

The subject said there would be a survey?