SENIOR PRANKS

There is no official record of senior pranks at Garfield. In an attempt to find the greatest senior prank in school history, The Mess talked to some of Garfield’s longest tenured faculty members about pranks they remembered.

Faculty members agreed that the class of 2007 had the best prank. 2007 was a year in which Garfield was undergoing a remodel. Garfield (the students and staff) were relocated to then-vacant Lincoln High School for 2007 and 2008 while Garfield’s Building was under construction. Seniors were understandably disappointed that their senior year was the one to be interrupted by the change, and they came up with the perfect prank to express these feelings. Seniors took bricks from the original Garfield building and cemented them together to form a signpost in front of the door to Lincoln and then cemented the 23rd and Alder street sign onto this brick signpost. The signpost paid homage to a long-standing Garfield tradition of senior classes painting on the chimney of the old building.The sign stood for a few weeks and the structure had to be dismantled brick by brick. The class of 2007’s prank wins because of its creativity, expression of school spirit, and