I knew where I was going

Good old Stadium..

I knew since I was a little girl that I was going to go to Stadium — didn't every 2nd grader know that?? My Grandma (Norma Lindley-Gipson) Graduated in 1933. She always talked of all the stairs she climbed and the beautiful bowl that used to have seats all the way around its horseshoe shape.(before the mud slides) wow that was a long time ago.

And then my Mom (Gayle Gipson-Chapman) who graduated in 1964 told me great stories of commuting to Stadium from Dash Point, in her bug in the 60's, which is how I learned how to be late for curfew when visiting my Dash or Brown’s Point friends (uhmm. there was a train or uhmm..the bridge was up??) even way back then they partied at the "Wells" and the "Hunts"! who knew our parents were once cool?

Then in the late 80's my brother (Matt Chapman) went there, he graduated in 1990. Jimmy Koolis and I used to wonder the halls while our families were doing track meet event stuff with our brothers, we would talk about how cool we were going to be when we went to the big brown castle. So in 1991 I finally became a Stadium tiger! yeah!!! Jimmy went for one year too. until he transferred to WILSON eww. they had a better football team, so he thought! that year we beat WILSON! I think it was the first time ever — what a great moment LOL.

Anyway I think I had some of the greatest, scariest, exciting, horrible, sad, most fun, moments of my young life at or because of Stadium High School, from finding new friends and painfully losing old ones. To wearing blue and gold with pride even if we always lost!

Being the boys baseball manager for 4 years..Wow that was a lot of brownies and jolly ranchers! Having to walk all the way to the girls side just to pee. Run around. THE STAIRS! Selling elevator passes to freshman — that never happened?? Watching people get Bayed. Going to Denny's after football games. Going to the South "K" games just to steal the A&W mugs. Winning the front row parking spot, then cramming 6 people into my VW everyday to and from school. what great memories.

So the other day I figured out what year my little one will Graduate from The Big Brown Castle..2021 (god willing) can you even believe that 2021.. ah.

So to everyone who has been touched by Stadium in anyway REMEMBER IT AND PASS ON THE STORIES.. they are such wonderful memories and we are all so lucky to have been touched by the Castle! Finally signing off.....

Melissa Volk AKA (Missy Chapman) CLASS OF 1994!!!

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