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Results of the First Kiss Survey

(Thanks to Pete Tierney '75 for thinking up this survey.)

We will continue to add any survey results that come in so if you haven't as yet sent one in you can do so HERE

Number Of Respondents

87

Was this your first kiss ever?

Yes: 34 - No: 49 - Don't Remember: 4

Where did it take place?

Inside: 44 - Outside: 41

If inside - what building?

Auto Shop, Cafeteria, Cafe (2), Dairy Barn (4), Dairy Barn hay loft (2), Field House (2), Gallant Hall, Greenhouse (2), Gym (3), Heifer Barn hay loft, High School Building (2), Horse Barn (4), Horse Barn hay loft (2), Horticulture Building, Main Building (6), Metal Shop, Off campus (prom), School Bus (2), Science Building, Smith Hall (2), Topsfield Fair info booth, Wood Hall, ?

If outside - what area?

Apple Orchard (2), Behind the Gym, Between two ponds, Bus Stop (4), Football Field (3), Front Lawn, Front of Gallant Hall, Front of Science Building (2), Front of Smith Hall (2), Gym (3), Gym entrance, Homemaking School, N R Club camping trip, Outside Cafeteria, Outside Smith Hall (2), Outside Extension Hall (2), Outside Field House, Outside new High School Bldg, Parking Lot (3), Pig Pen 92), Poultry Complex, Racoon Run (2), Topsfield Fair, Under a tree, ? 

Did you initiate the kiss?

Yes: 36 - No: 45 - Yes & No: (2), Mutual: (2), Don't remember (1)

Did you date the person?

Yes: 67 - No: 18 - No Answer: (2)

Do you remember his/her name?

Yes: 82 - No: 4

Did you marry him/her?

Yes: 6 - No: 74 - Almost: (1) - Hell No: (2)
Not Yet: (3) - Only in my dreams: (1)

Male or Female?

Male: 31 - Female: 36

Graduating class year?

1950s: (6)
1960s: (10)
1970s: (4)
1980s: (9)
1990s: (23)
2000s: (27)
Not indicated: (7)

Comments: No particular order, just entered as we received them.

It was great, we kissed all afternoon.

Well if you all look at the Class of 65-67 you will see that we were not that coed then My girl friend who was a year ahead of me and I snuck into the upper deck of the Assembly room in the then Main building of Aggie. We grabbed a quick kiss before we had to go to our next class. Unfortunately we were discovered by the Head of Students, Mr. White, who, as I remember correctly, was quite livid concerning our indiscretional behavior in the hallowed halls of the very place we gleefully sang our school song.

We snuck into Mr. Clarks class room and spent the evening. She was in nursing school and I was a junior. OOOOHHH to be young again!

We watched the pigs rolling in the mud and decided to jump in and give it a try. We began kissing.

We went for a walk after a fall dance at the Alumni Field House on the football field. Had a romantic moment under the goal post at the north end of the field. Date was attending school at a convent in Salem, MA. Married her friend in 1960.

I was such a poor kisser I think she was quite disappointed. Even today my wife of 38 years says I'm a lousy kisser.

You know those green passes to the bathroom made an impact on my life cause you can meet people in the bathroom........with a pass.  And it's amazing what you can get away with across the hall from Miss Hegarty's office!!

I had been dating him for a few weeks at the time; Our busses were late due to a storm we were talking in Mr. B's room when all of a sudden he leaned over & kissed me; & in walks Mr. B in mid kiss (red faced) we were told to scat & see if our busses were there yet.

Prevoke year May 1976, the road between the two ponds was well traveled back then. A great spot to get away and have quiet time with friends.

I was 14 ,we were feeding calves milk from a bucket. At the time it seemed like the biggest thing that would ever happen in life. The anticipation was unbelievable. I was scared out of my mind. She was a beautiful young fellow student of the same age as me. She was as scared as I was and it never happened again probably because we were so nieve in those days.

I kissed Breezer.  He was the only male on campus that was worthy of my affection. He was such a good horse.

I was taller than him so I stood on the ground and he stood on the concrete.

The comments from the teachers: "Move along you two, not on school grounds, etc., etc., etc."

She was a great kisser!

Well, my high school sweetheart and I used to go behind the gym where there were these very large cedar trees that hid us well from prying eyes. One morning when we were behind the trees a teacher came around the back of the gym. He was walking his dog and what do you know the dog found us!!! We were and sent back to homeroom and not more than a few days later those cedar trees were cut down!! Apparently we were not the only ones that occasionally used this spot for an Aggie kiss!!

While in Mr. Chase's metal shop I stopped to help a girl with a project she was working on. When I finished helping her she came over and kissed me.

During Mrs. Travers horse management class i met with the boy i liked at the time in the hay loft to get our horses some hay and he made the first move towards me to tell me his feelings and when i said i felt the same he moved towards me and asked if he could kiss me and i said i wanted him to kiss me.

We were going to a dance in the little building by the ball field. It may have been my first kiss there at the school. It had to be in 1954 as he graduated in 1955. But  the one I should have kissed was Julian Sinisterra, life might have been a whole different story.

Mine was over in the Poultry complex with the herdsman's daughter. I was completely rejected. I remember she said, "I don't do that." It must have been a traumatic experience because I still remember it clearly today 50 years later!

I think it was his first kiss too. Did not last long, as someone else showed up. But it was sweet. We are still friends today and talk to each other all the time. Thank you Bill for my first kiss! I will never forget it.

It was in room 5, right after school, my freshman year. It was the WORST KISS EVER!! But we dated for 2 years after, and were able to stay friends.

There's really not too much of a story, but I asked a girl out in my senior year class of 2003, and she said "yes" to me, and I've known her since freshman year of '99, and my kiss (not the first one) took place at the busses in the afternoon to go home. I always walked her to her bus, and vise-versa, and every time I walked her/she walked me. I'd kiss her on the lips goodbye, and see her tomorrow, like I did everyday until the day we broke up! I ended up asking her out a total of 3 times my senior year, and the same thing happened all 3 times! That's about it!

Can't say much.  It was wonderful though.

Rich took me by surprise in English class with Ms. Gaurino.  When I turned around he was holding mistletoe and he had me under it so, I kissed him.

We would meet on the second floor of Smith Hall after I finished cashiering in the lunchroom.

I was a Freshman attending a school sponsored dance. I had traveled to the dance with a senior who encouraged me to make a move. I did and things worked out fairly well.

We were on a Camping Trip with the Natural Resources Club. The young lady and I liked each other but since we lived in different parts of the county and neither of us even had our licenses yet dating was impractical. We made up for it though on this camping trip. Nothing ever developed from then on. Too bad though she was a great kisser!

My first kiss at school was with Kristen Groki outside of smith hall waiting for the busses to arrive. I was a freshman at the time and my sister, (Crystal Pierce) was a senior. She yelled to all of her senior friends and embarrassed me in front of everyone. It is funny now but I was humiliated at the time.

It was with my gurlfriend Jen by the buses right before Easter break Freshman year! It was great!

We had to be only 15. It was back in 1997. His homeroom was downstairs & mine was upstairs. Before we went home that day we met under the stairs for a quick kiss. Thinking back that was cute.

Me and my boyfriend were on the late bus and were dared to kiss each other. It was my first real kiss.

This happened my freshamn year, 1999. We would set a time to meet in the downstairs room of the green house or near the bathrooms when we were both in that building. If we didn't have a time to meet we would see the other go down and follow and we would kiss and flirt...kind of the only way to be near each other and with one another without being yelled at was sneacking downstairs for a kiss to wake us up from our semi boring classes.

I kissed my first pig at ever while I was on break in between Sociology and Accounting that was held in the building on the same side as the cowbarn. It was a gorgeous spring day and I always loved to visit the animals when I had time. On that day the a pig was out in a pen and it was a HUGE pink pig! I crouched down outside of the fence to feed the pig a dandylion and it's wet snout bumped right up against my cheek. Scared the poop out of me but ever since then I have been fascinated with porcines and I finally have my own now, "Ellie", who is 500+ pounds and only 10 months old. I tF= tuck her in her "bed" every night with her blankie and teddy bear.  I'm the neighbor the local townsfolk whisper about, but that's okay
 

I did not like to this day I still don't have a boyfriend.

We were flirting. And I decided it would be awesome if I tried to climb a tree and he followed and we eventually kissed on that tree.

not much i made out with this girl in the hay loft of the horse barn and then went back to mucking stalls

I was best friends at the time with Robert MacIsaac (2004) and he just wanted to know what it would be like to kiss me and he did on the steps of the cafeteria and a month or two later, he asked me out on the steps of Smith hall when we were leaving Homework Club. And since that day (March 23,2004) we\'re still together.

Well...all I can say is I\'ll never forget

it was a kiss

My first kiss at the Aggie was with Jonathon Galant infront of the busses a week after school started freshman year! Im still in love with him but we are better off as friends!