Students and staff members at Lawrence High can put their most embarrassing, horrible or hilarious secrets anonymously into locker 505A in the English hallway until the end of this semester.

   Students involved in Graffiti magazine, sponsored by Bill Patterson, put on the Post Secret program this year. Juniors Ashley Kennedy and Tara Bryant lead Post Secret, and although they are not the inventors of this long-going activity, it is the first time it has been a part of Lawrence High.

   “I believe we had a fairly decent turnout,” Bryant said. “We have received about 80 submissions so far, and we’ll continue collecting them until winter break. With this being the first time, we didn’t really know what to expect, but we’re very pleased with how things are going.”

   Exactly what they are going to do with the secrets is still up in the air, but they are planning to display most of the secrets they received.

   “The plan with the secrets is to display them in or outside of the Lawrence High library,” Bryant said. “If we get enough secrets and have enough money; however, Ashley and I would love to have a book of all the secrets made similar to the Graffiti magazine publication.”

    The variation of secrets that they received in locker 505A was great, and the way that some people responded surprised Kennedy and Bryant.

   “Most of the secrets we received were serious,” Bryant said, “which surprised me. It was almost overwhelming to read some of them and realize that the struggle you’re reading about could be any one of the students or staff of this school. That was part of the reason to start Post Secret. Ashley and I really wanted Lawrence High students to realize that they are not the only ones struggling with something or going through a hard time. Everyone has a secret, and we wanted to give students a way to express their secrets without giving away their identity, so it could still be private if they so choose.”

   Kennedy agrees that she also was surprised; she did not know how to react to some of them.

   “I’m in the hallways walking past people everyday, and I would have never guessed what some of these people are going through behind closed doors,” Kennedy said.

   Not all of the secrets they received were serious, some were meant to be funny. The most popular types of secrets they received were about, love, something serious, something funny and everything in between. 

    “One said ‘I live my life by taking advice from chocolate wrappers’,”  Kennedy said. “And there were a whole bunch of dove wrappers glued to the secret.”

   Even people who do not go to Lawrence High have contributed to the cause of Post Secret.

    “A student from Free State apparently came over and submitted a secret,” Bryant said. “I found it funny they went through all the trouble of coming to Lawrence High. So that may be my favorite funny one.”

   The plan for the future of Post Secret has not yet been decided; making this a new tradition at Lawrence High could be in the future as well. This program has had a good turnout and Bryant and Kennedy hope for an even better one for the future. The impact that this could have on Lawrence High could be even greater.