With our four years of high school ending and graduation coming up in matter of days, chances are quite a number of senior had at least one teacher that was a student at Stamford High. We took our time to interview Mr.Augustyn, Coach Melzer, and Ms.Hadsell on the biggest differences about Stamford High “back then,” and how life was different as a student for them.

Mr.Augustyn was a student at Stamford High from 1969-1971. In his junior year they built the 5^th and 6^th floors of Stamford High. There was no Westhill High School, and Rippowam was a middle school, so Stamford High was the prideof Stamford. His days of high school were the days of optimism, according to Augustyn.

Coach Melzer was a student at Stamford High School from 1997-2001.  Back then technology wasn’t around as much. People talked to each other face to face, and had more social interaction. Melzer said he was “raised in an era when people skills mattered.”

Ms.Hadsell was a student at Stamford High from 1995-1999. SHS still only had two buildings, but had a similar amount of students to what Stamford High has today. It was a lot more crowded, in a lot smaller sized Stamford High. Stamford High only had one gym, and morning announcements were called “SHS On The Air”.

We see the biggest differences between back then and now are the new technology and the addition of the new building. Overcrowding is not a new issue; Ms.Hadsell told a funny story about a time while she was walking in the stairwell and it was so crowded that she lost her shoe, and she could only retrieve it only after everyone had passed to class. All three teachers agreed that if they had a choice to do high school all over again, they would choose to stay in their respective years.  Do you think you will say the same in ten or twenty years?