High School Flashback

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Chace Crawford

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SCHOOL Trinity Christian Academy,
Addison, TX
ACTIVITIES Football, golf
SUPERLATIVES Best Dressed
FAVORITE SUBJECT Art
YEARBOOK QUOTE "Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs."
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY "In high school, I [was] always creatively inclined."

FAR LEFT: Crawford in his junior year.

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Leighton Meester

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SCHOOL Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA
FAVORITE SUBJECT Creative writing
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY “I wasn't popular. I'm a late bloomer."

FAR LEFT: Meester in her junior year, 2003.

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Penn Badgley

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SCHOOL Charles Wright Academy,
Tacoma, WA
ACTIVITIES Guitar, soccer, Seattle Children's Theater
FAVORITE SUBJECT Creative Writing
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY "My first day of high school one of my best friends got punched in the face by a senior. That was a rude awakening."

FAR LEFT: Badgley in 6th grade (the actor took his high school equivalency exam at 14-years-old), 1998.

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Blake Lively

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SCHOOL Burbank High School, Burbank, CA
ACTIVITIES Class president, cheerleader, National Show Choir, Key Club
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY "I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"

FAR LEFT: Lively in her senior year, 2005.

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Jessica Szohr

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SCHOOL Menomonee Falls High School, Menomonee Falls, WI
SUPERLATIVES Most Gorgeous Gaze
LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECT Math
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY "The most important thing I learned in high school was probably friendship. Also, that stressing and worrying about things don't do much."

FAR LEFT: Szohr in her junior year, 2002.

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Michelle Trachtenberg

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SCHOOL Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, CA
ACTIVITIES DARE, California Scholarship Federation
FAVORITE SUBJECT English, social studies, religion
LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECT: Math
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY: "I don't think I'll ever need amp#91;mathamp#93;. What do you use it for? 'I'll have eggs and a Pythagorean theorem, please?'"

FAR LEFT: Trachtenberg in her sophomore year, 2001.

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Kelly Rutherford

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SCHOOL Corona Del Mar High School, Newport Beach, CA
HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY "I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers."

FAR LEFT: Rutherford in her senior year, 1986.

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