“Yearbook Full of Memories”

When I was in school, when ACTION NEWS on Philly’s ABC affiliate WPVI 6 used to show their graduation commercials I knew summer was almost here. The school year was in the home stretch. The lazy, crazy days of summer were about to arrive. Channel 6 apparently gets all the smart students in one place at one time for a video tribute.

The other day I caught one of them. They haven’t changed at all over all these years. It amazes me all that has changed in our culture and they use the same song. The same voice. “Yearbook full of memories……the honors that you earned, something, something that you learned, a Smile that says you made it, made it all the way. And you graduation days is hereeee. You’re the best of the class this year! (lame piano, solo follows).

The best, part of these ads, is when they do shots of students in South Jersey. They are showing the top students of several schools in the area. However, the shot is a moving shot so the student has to sit there awkwardly and try not smile, sit still and not blink too much. They last on the screen long enough so the viewer can read their name and school. Some students looked scared and others just look like they want to be there. Everyone looks like a tool.

Does anyone know if Duke was invited? Although being the brightest bulb at Sterling, might not actually be news. If he did, I will do whatever I can to find the footage of such an event. I do somewhere have my brother on ACTION NEWS. It was when the train that runs through the town of Straford (actually from Camden to AC so through many towns) was allowed to go faster. They came to Yellin. He said “It might not be good idea because some kids could get squished.” Years after the fact he swore he didn’t say squished and it was some sort of ACTION NEWS conspiracy.

::Kids toss their caps into the air, and cheesy piano fades::