Heidkamping

So let me tell you about Heidkamping. Well.






This is Mr. Heidkamp. My senior year English teacher.

It all started out with some friends and I visiting Mr. Heidkamp after school last year. We would just stop by his room and either talk about whatever book we were currently reading, or, if we had nothing to say, stick our heads in the door and say "Heidkamp." This daily ritual snowballed throughout the year, until we were singing covers of songs from any and all genres, replacing just about every two syllable word with "Heidkamp."

Here are some examples so the concept sticks:

"Heidkamp bells, heidkamp bells, Heidkamp all the way"

"Heidkamp on my miiiiiiiiind..."

"Heidkamp's mom, has got it goin on"

After we had done this a few times, the history teacher from the room next door, Mr. Schwartz, started coming in to listen. Thusly, we incorporated his name into songs for one syllable words ala "It's the Eye of the Heidkamp, he's the king of the Schwartz."

Anyways, all of this culminated in me giving a graduation speech all about "Heidkamping" as it came to be known, including 5 different songs and a 4 part arrangement of "Heidkamp in D."

Unfortunately, Mr. Heidkamp wasn't at graduation. He had to watch it on tape much later. But then, after showing the tape to his parents, he became a legend in the Heidkamp family. How good does a teacher have to be to have kids sing about him at graduation? Heidkamp good. That's how.

Well the story doesn't end there. Me and my friends go to college now, but we still carry on the torch whenever we're home. One of those times was today. And since we can only Heidkamp a few times a year, we've taken to singing a really good one, with sheet music and fantastic harmony. Today's was "Don't Stop Heidkamping," off of the Journey classic, arranged by my friend Dan who does a lot of a capella stuff at Yale. What's that you say? You need proof?










Take that.