Holmes was in fact a high-school dropout who never returned to school ; according to Bill Amerson, " the closest John ever got to UCLA was breaking into cars in the school's parking lot.

In the United States, a more general example, and stereotypical, is that of the high-school dropout who returns to school to complete general education requirements.

Blankenship is a high-school dropout whose uncle owns the network.

In late May 2006, Pupatello introduced a strategic high school transition plan intended to reduce Ontario's high-school dropout rate.

Plaisted was a high-school dropout from Bruno, Minnesota, who found success as an insurance salesman.

A high-school dropout, Hartman received no formal writing training.

Kuryu is a high-school dropout who was falsely accused of a crime-cleared only by a public prosecutor who took the time to research the facts.

It was then, as an itinerant high-school dropout, that he was introduced to Appalachian musical traditions via the repertoire of the unsung Indiana combo Hurricane Sadee, whose performances of folk and bluegrass standards opened Joplin's eyes to a new world of lyrical depth and musical expression.

The story is told in first person perspective by a 19-year-old high-school dropout, Richard " Dinky " Earnshaw.

Playwright and novelist Han Ong ( born 1968 ) is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation " genius " grant.

The show features Lee, who is a high-school dropout, facing collegiate challenges like finding a roommate, trying out for athletic teams, trying to join a fraternity, studying chemistry, and trying out for the marching band.

Gary E. Dotson was a high-school dropout who, at the time of his arrest, was living in Country Club Hills, a modest Chicago suburb, with his mother Barbara and his sister Debbie .< REF NAME =" NW "> Dotson Summary, Northwestern University School of Law.

After two years as a high-school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania and one teaching elementary school in the small town of Charlotte Vermont, Dewey decided that he was unsuited for employment in primary or secondary education.

Abdul also co-produced a 2001 pilot episode of Skirts, a dramatic series that would have aired on MTV about a high-school cheerleading squad ; Abdul was also set to appear as the head coach.

" Scopes was charged with having taught from the chapter on evolution to an April 24, 1925, high-school class in violation of the Butler Act and nominally arrested, though he was never actually detained.

It was played at a ballpark for the first known time in 1934, at a high-school game in Los Angeles, and researchers think it made its debut at a major-league park later that year.

One of these electronics enthusiasts, Robert Moog, began building theremins in the 1950s, while he was a high-school student.

Mary reveals that Keith was her fiancé, Wendy was his high-school girlfriend and during their rehearsal dinner she found them making out in her car.

She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England, but her high-school degree was awarded in St. Johann, near Kitzbühel, Austria.

His father, a lawyer, first worked as a manufacturer's representative, while his mother was first a home-maker then a guidance counselor and high-school vice-principal.

Hašek was born in Prague, Bohemia ( then within Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic ), the son of high-school math teacher Josef Hašek and his wife Kateřina.

A similar service reported on the scores of most high-school games in Chicago, but otherwise there was no sports coverage.

* Established by school teachers while he was alive, the Zinn Education Project is Howard Zinn's legacy to middle-and high-school teachers and their students.

Sean Marsee ( 1965-February 25, 1984 ) was a Talihina high-school athlete who has become a national icon against the use of chewing tobacco.

Every fifteen minutes they played a record ; the rest of the time it was commercials about a high-school correspondence course.

In 2004, The Wohelo Award was expanded to Teens in Action members, allowing all high-school aged Camp Fire members to work toward Camp Fire ’ s highest achievement and honor.

The film was inspired by Tom Hanks's tearful speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar ( for his role in Philadelphia ), in which he mentioned his high-school drama coach Rawley Farnsworth, and his former classmate John Gilkerson, " two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with ".

The city renovated Hadlock Field, transforming what was once a high-school stadium into a professional ballpark.

When Baldwin was 15, his high-school running buddy, Emile Capouya, skipped school one day and, in Greenwich Village, met one Beauford Delaney, a painter.

Not inclined to formal music study, Belew was nonetheless a quick developer and rapidly became a high-school guitar hero.

The second was that of a high-school teacher in Alexander Payne's Election with Reese Witherspoon.

Accepting a ride home from a young man she felt she recognized, local high-school basketball player Reginald Harding, Ballard was instead driven north to an empty parking lot off of Woodward Avenue.

The group met Reggie Andrews, a local high-school music teacher who worked with the Dazz Band and Rick James, and who was a major musical influence on their debut album.

While at high-school, he started working as a journalist in printed and electronic media, as a contributor to literary and youth magazines, and was soon recognized as Croatia ’ s media correspondent from Sarajevo.

* One ad has former anchor Rich Eisen being " sent down to the minors " ( in his case, working for a high-school TV service, where two students asked him to buy them some beer, a request he declined to honor ).

He recalled in 1973 that, " Comic art was certainly the first artform I remember being impressed with ... hose gorgeous gory newsstand spreads ...." After serving as editor of his high-school yearbook, for which he did cartoons and illustration, and working a number of odd jobs including " soda jerk, street repairman, tie designer, exercise boy on the race track circuit, etc .," he enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, Illinois, in late summer 1954, studying two nights a week for three months under Jerry Warshaw for " the total of my entire formal art training.

After completing his high-school studies, he started working as a disc jockey in several discothèques and radio stations in the province of Rome.

In 1968, while working as a high-school principal in Newfoundland, Campbell was responsible for introducing sex education into the curriculum.

While working on his Emmy-nominated guest role in Grey's Anatomy, Kyle Chandler met Peter Berg, who was developing a drama series Friday Night Lights, which followed the lives of a high-school football coach, his family and players in a small Texas town.

After obtaining a Master's degree in educational psychology, Kaye began working as a high-school teacher.

The band was formed in 1993 by guitarist Marty Donald, drummer and vocalist Tali White, and bass player Mark Monnone, who were high-school friends.

One of the towers was prominently featured in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused as the site of a high-school keg party, in which the character played by Matthew McConaughey exclaims, " Party at the moon tower.