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High School Confidental — The Answers

Last week, I thought I’d see if any of you could guess who these four CBC personalities are (photos taken from their high school days) and nobody even guessed! Anywhere, here are the answers.

		Amanda Pfeffer -Reporter, Montreal CBC News at 6 1982 — Grade 10, Montreal West High School, before it became Royal West Academy. I was 15 years old. Charlies Angels was the big show, as you can tell by the hair. And I played Eliza Doolittle in the school play, with current Montreal West Mayor’s son Andrew Simms playing Professor Higgins. We thought we were sooooo cool.

		Chuck Regehr, CBC Radio business columnist 1965 — the year I graduated from Sharon Mennonite Collegiate in Yarrow, B.C. For me.. the age of innocence and yes… a little Brylcreem. The hippe revolution had not really arrived in Yarrow in 1965.

		Michel Godbout, Host - Montreal CBC News at Six It was 1981. I was in secondary 3 at l’École Mont-de-la-Salle. I didn’t come from the area and didn’t live near the school so I had to make new friends. I made ONE over 3 years! It was a good 30-minute bus ride to school but I decided to go there because of it’s modular schedule, the same kind you have in CEGEP and university, but this was at the high school level. It taught me responsibility early on. Being able to plan your own schedule was the best thing about it. You could assign yourself a couple of 7 class days and take Friday off.

		Steve Rukavina, CBC Radio reporter This is me in grade nine in the mid-80’s. I remember that shirt very well, because it was the first I ever had with a “button-down” collar, which was quite in fashion at the time (or at least I thought it was). I believe I was experimenting with hairspray at this point as well,hence the flip in the hair. And of course there was the awful tortureof orthodontia, which in my case was compounded by a missing tooth. Bring it on, ladies!