Forest Brook
For 100: Forest Brook's street address is on this lane.
What is Lilac Lane?
This is the name commonly used for Hauppauge High School's students and graduates and the school mascot.
What are the Eagles?
In the 1980s, students wanting to listen to their favorite music between classes were more likely to carry one of these than a smartphone.
What is a Walkman?
This 1980 film starred Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, who takes a job at the isolated Overlook Hotel.
What is The Shining?
This person once rehearsed for a dance show in the rehearsal rooms of the Radio City Music Hall
Who is Rita
Although it's a Hauppauge school, Forest Brook's official mailing address is in this neighboring Long Island town.
What is Smithtown?
This academic organization recognizes students for strong performance in many subjects.
What is the National Honor Society?
This type of phone, usually attached to a wall, was how many Hauppauge teenagers communicated with friends before cell phones.
What is a landline?
In The Karate Kid, Mr. Miyagi famously teaches Daniel by having him repeatedly perform this chore.
What is waxing his car?
This person comes from a very large extended family, with an impressive 54 first cousins.
Who is Mary
This other Hauppauge elementary school was built in 1965, six years after Forest Brook.
What is Pines Elementary School?
Before the internet made homework research easy, Hauppauge High students could turn to these condensed study guides for help understanding classic books and literature.
What are Cliff Notes?
Before streaming music, Hauppauge students in the '80s commonly bought their favorite albums in this format.
What is a cassette tape?
In The Breakfast Club, five students spend their Saturday doing this at Shermer High School.
What is detention?
This person has a unique commute, she works in person every day in a different state than the one she lives in.
Who is Mary.
Forest Brook had an unusual second life after closing as an elementary school in 1989; it was used primarily as this type of educational center before reopening in 1996.
What is a kindergarten center?
This library system allowed students to search for books using cards filed alphabetically by author, title or subject.
What is a card catalog?
This 1980s device allowed students to record songs from the radio onto blank tapes.
What is a boombox?
In Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald's character is upset because her family forgets this important event.
What is her birthday?
Before moving out here, this person started 4th grade in the city and was placed in the gifted and talented class, although she was only there for about 6 weeks.
Who is Rita?
Forest Brook closed as an elementary school in 1989, but seven years later it reopened because the district was facing this problem.
What is overcrowding?
Before Google, students used this massive reference book to look up facts for research papers.
What is an encyclopedia?
This iconic 1980s video-game company released the Nintendo Entertainment System, which became a huge hit with teenagers and kids.
What is Nintendo?
This 1988 Tom Hanks movie begins with a boy wishing he were an adult and magically becoming one.
What is Big?
This person has walked on a live glacier.
Who is Myra? or
Who is Neine