On Friday, May 8, the Center at Spring Street hosted a ‘Senior Senior’ Prom including the center’s senior citizens and Boyertown High School National Honor Society students. “Music Across the Ages” themed decorations and food were provided by the students.
Fifty students and 58 senior citizens danced together to music from the band Classic Touch.
High School girls escorted each gentlemen into the dance and the boys presented each of the 35 ladies in attendance with a carnation.
In an effort to get conversation flowing, Parker Thomas created a questionnaire to be left on each table. The older generation answered each inquiry which included their favorite music, happiest memory and important historical events the seniors lived through. The students complied the results to determine the most popular answers in each category. Elvis was the clear musical winner while ‘Greece’ and ‘Gone With The Wind’ tied for favorite movie. Most seniors loved the technological advancements that have been made in recent years and list the Kennedy assassination and man walking on the moon as memorable historic events.
Jami Renfro, National Honor Society advisor, said the event was another way the teens could “give back to the community.” In preparation for the occasion, Renfro showed the students how to dance. With Boyertown High School’s prom scheduled for the next week, some of the kids had never attended a dance before. Jordan Glasner said that he was having more fun than he did at his 7th grade social, his only previous dance experience.
Some of the seniors danced with the students and some of the seniors preferred to dance with each other.
