As most of the juniors and seniors at HHS are aware of, Prom 2012 will take place on May 19th. Although there is a big to-do about dresses, pictures, and dinner plans, an even bigger effort seems to have gone into asking people to prom. This year HHS students went all out to ask their special someone to prom.
Senior Jack Burden asked his date through a CD.
“I recorded myself asking her to prom on a CD, but disguised it as a mix CD,” Burden said.
“I was really surprised, I had no idea it was coming. He was really sneaky about it,” his date, junior Kirsten Ferguson, said.
Gabe Morey asked exchange student Marie von Stetten in a little lengthier plan. The track teams were warming up and both teams knew Morey planned to ask Stetten. The girls warmed up on the parking lot side of the school where Stetten was “kidnapped” by the boys team, and delivered to Morey who sat at the front entrance to the school with a “Prom?” sign and flowers.
“She was very surprised,” Morey said.
In a different twist, junior Lydia Hatfield asked her date senior Will Turner, instead of the other way around. Hatfield strung up Christmas lights in Turner’s magnolia tree outside his window that spelled “Prom.”
“[I decided to ask him] because I had the idea, and it was so good, I couldn’t let it go to waste. And I could count on creativity if it was coming from me,” Hatfield said.
Turner knew she was planning on asking him, but he just didn’t know how or when, so he was definitely surprised.
The most detailed plan I heard probably came when senior Breton Nicholas asked junior Caitlin Kelley.
“I was surprised, it was pretty elaborate, and slightly random,” Kelley said.
Nicholas’ plan went a little like this. Junior Margaret King asked Kelley to help her with a supposed “biology lab” where Kelley had to be blindfolded and have her hand tied to see how to adapt with two senses missing. Kelley had to find her way to the door and then outside in her predicament. Once outside Kelley was picked up and shoved into a car, which zoomed away, with Kelley yelling for a seat belt the whole time. Her kidnappers took her to EMU Hill, where she was taken out of the car to the background of “I’m Sexy and I Know It.” There, Nicholas stood in a crazy blue wig, and a robe, dancing. “Prom?” was written on his chest.
Junior Kaelyn Warne took a slightly different approach as well, and went with asking a person at another school. After school she drove to his school, and while her future date participated in play practice, she wrote “Prom?” on his car window with window paint. She, with the help of her friends, decided this was the easiest, while still being creative, way to ask.
Junior Sam St. Ours had another nice way to ask his date. With some help, he baked a cake with the word “Prom?” spelled in candy and sprinkles, along with 100 nerds, for the 100th day he’d been dating junior Nancy Carrie Logan.
“A cake [was the best idea] because it’s something everyone can benefit from. I don’t think she was expecting it,” St. Ours said.
So as you underclassmen look to next year and your future proms, don’t be skimpy in your invitation. The bar has risen, and it’s time to step up!
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