05/21/10 - 05/23/10 VIDEO: Crisp And Clean These Greenwich High School Student Pranks Have No Caffine (UPDATED WITH CORRECTION)

ortixx — May 21, 2010 — A short video of what went down May 13th and 14th when the Class of 2010 at GHS did their senior prank. Longer extended version with interviews is coming soon.

These Lame Set Of Greenwich High School Pranks Will Never Go Down In Greenwich History

Thank God For YouTube, Because You Will Never Ever Hear About These Greenwich High School Pranks At Cablevision's News 12 Or At The Greenwich Time

Back In The Good Ole Day's Greenwich High School Students Were Bold And Imaginative And Pulled Off Pranks That Were Remembered And Talked About For Years.

Today's Latch Key Kids Who Grew Up Going To Play Dates Have No Idea What A Real High School Prank Is.

Back in the 1960's High School seniors disassembled a beat up Volkswagen Beetle, and dragged the pieces up to the second floor of the old Greenwich High School (Now Town Hall).

The VW, which was bought at a junk yard for a hundred bucks, was reassembled in the hallway and surprised the whole school.

After the VW Bug was discovered by a janitor, the Greenwich Police Department was called, and the principal went ballistic threatening students over the intercom. A teacher turned in the students who were interrogated and told this is going to go on your permanent record and ruin your life.

Old copies of the Greenwich Time from June of 1966 reports that eight Greenwich High Schoolers were arrested by the Greenwich Police Department and who charged them with disorderly conduct.

The case was later dropped after a cool headed judge ruled "No Crime, No Foul"

There had been no harm done to the school, except for the disruptions by freaked out school administrators.

Over the years year, students have

• Built a huge airplane and hung it in of the old school building's auditorium
• Walked out of class at a prearranged time, while a student used a security guards walkie talkie to send out a warning about a student protest.
• Painted their names on the outside of the school building
• Removed all doorknobs in the school building
• Tons of crickets have unleashed during a prearranged food fight
• Parking 20 Cars in the student center.
• Filled the headmaster's office from floor to ceiling with thousands of balloons.
• Setting off set off fireworks during lunch in the student center

UPDATE:

When Greenwich Roundup Types

The Greenwich Time Listens

Greenwich Roundup Was Wrong

The Greenwich Time Would Cover This Years Lame High School Prank

They Even Showed The Week Old You Tube Video

Originally in the Sunday paper: From VW bugs to Post-it notes: The evolution of the GHS prank

Colin Gustafson, Staff Writer

Published: 05:03 p.m., Monday, May 24, 2010

This article originally appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Greenwich Time

Students have constructed a cement wall in the student center at Greenwich High School. They've removed all but one seat in the auditorium. They've even coaxed a cow up to the top floor of the old high school where Town Hall is today, only to be frustrated when the spooked bovine refused to go back downstairs.

Many high schools have a tradition of student pranks that alumni love to reminisce about and educators might want to forget. GHS has been no exception, as the student body has carried out often good-natured and occasionally destructive shenanigans through the decades.....

"I've seen some really good creative pranks, and some others that have gotten out of control," said Terry Lowe, boys swimming coach at GHS who began working at the high school back in 1966.

Last week, members of the GHS Class of 2010 carried on this tradition. Dozens set up a 20-foot-tall "2010" sculpture made of painted cardboard boxes in the student center. Others decked the windows of the central corridor with multi-colored Post-it notes arrayed in different patterns......

....Students carried on the tradition in some clever ways during the late 1960s and 1970s, long-time educators said.....

.....John Whritner, superintendent from 1990 to 1997, said pranks evolved into much more disruptive and costly situations that decade.....

....Elaine Bessette, who served as GHS headmistress from 1999 to 2005, said the were few organized pranks and only a handful of disruptions during her tenure, in large part, because the seniors started having something to do -- internships.

Under her watch, the senior internship program expanded dramatically from serving a couple dozen students in the late 1990s to several hundred by the time she stepped down as headmistress.....

....Lowe believes a strong rapport between students and administrators will keep disruptions to a minimum in the future.

"When kids have a very positive, cooperative relationships with the headmaster, you can expect positive results," he said.

PLEASE NOTE:

Greenwich's Tradition Of Crappy Journalism Continues

That No Current Greenwich High School Student Was Interviewed For The Greenwich Time Article That Was About Them And Their Lame Prank Of 2010

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