Howie Erikson
| Howie Erikson | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Sex | M |
| Birth date | 1995 |
| Father | Jim Erikson |
| Mother | Barb Erikson |
Howie Erikson is a resident of Spearfish Lake with his parents are Jim and Barb Erikson at 328 Grove.BITH20 "Howie" is probably a nickname for Howard.
Howie has a brother, Jack Erikson, a couple of years older than Howie.BITH21 Jack's opinion of Howie is "a pain in the ass. I’m not sure whether it’s because he’s a natural pain in the ass, or really whether he went out for football. He’s got that football-player attitude that, since I’m into birds and not ball, I’m some kind of wuss."BITH8
In the summer of 2010 Howie had just turned fifteen and was expecting to start his sophomore year at Spearfish Lake High School. He was relieved to discover he won't have Mr Ordway for English BITH19 Howie's friends included one called GregBITH19, another Jeff and Mike Untermeyer. Jack's opinion was that his brother's friends were a bunch of "young punks".BITH23
Howie became the boyfriend of Misty Frankovich, a girl from his class. His defense of her against Frenchy LeDroit caused a fight and continued antagonism.BITH19 Janice Archer provided first aidBITH20 and helped him home, answering questions from his parents.BITH21 Howie and Misty enjoyed playing Nitendo together,BITH23 often with Misty kicking his butt.BITH28 "Playing Nintendo with Misty beat all hollow anything he might have done with Mike."BITH29 He was starting to get irritated with Misty's my way, or else attitude.BOF27
Howie accidentally discovered where Frenchy was hiding his beer. Late at night, he snuck back and stole all 24 of the 12-packs of beer and moved them.BITH38 The next morning he sank them underwater in a hollowed-out spot that only he knew about.BITH39
Howie earned money mowing lawns, but not as many of them as Jack who thinks Howie doesn't refill the gasoline can as often as he should.BITH25 Howie is a fan of the Green Bay Packers football team.BITH19
Howie was in prime position to be the starting quarterback on the JV football team when the 2010 season started, but found himself bumped up to varsity when the majority of the seniors who played were canned for breaking the Athletic Code of Conduct.BOF27 He proved to be able to pass, which was unusual in high school football.BOF33
Howie played badly in a football game because he was distracted by Misty jerking him around all week. He broke up with Misty that day when she refused to keep a promise to accompany him to a test session of a role-playing game written by friends of his brother Jack. Jack passed on what he'd heard about the way Bethany Frankovich and used Shay Archer as a practice dummy.RFW10
He became part of a study group with Jared Wooten, Autumn Trevetheck and Bree Gravengood. As part of the group supporting each other Autumn offered to pretend to be Howie's girlfriend as protection against Misty's tricks.RFW11 Over a couple of years the pretence faded and they became real boyfriend and girlfriend.RFW26
Following the best season the Marlins football team had in a dozen years Howie continued to train, including joining the track team in spring concentrating on sprints, hurdles and throwing.RFW18 RFW35
Before their Junior year, Howie and his three friends organised a legal party on the city beach as an alternative to the illegal beer bust some seniors organised.RFW24
He bought Autumn a ski jacket from Spearfish Lake Outfitters for Christmas even though he knew her family didn't do much about the holiday, and invited her to Christmas dinner with his family.RFW31
He had effectively been the leader of the football team from his sophomore year on but suggested seniiors for the honor of team captain in both his sophomore and junior years. He was team captain in his senior year.RFW37
As a result of Lyle Angarrack politicking for him, Howie recieved a half-ride scholarship to play football at Meriwether College.RFW40 He waslikely to be the starting quarterback in his freshman year.BDS5 The Meriwether team did a little better the years Howie played than previously.RFW42
His roommate at Meriwether College proved to be Cam Patterson and they became friends despite finding they had been opposing quarterbacks in the state final the previous November.BDS1
Howie asked Lyle Angarrack and Ashley Keilhorn to take Cam to breakfast his first Sunday morning at college because he was spending a couple of nights at Autumn's apartment in Centerton.BDS5
After completing his degree he was working on his CPA certificate while working to support Autumn. He expected to work for John Archer when they returned to Spearfish Lake to meet Autumn's obligations to the Donna Clark Foundation.RFW42
