During Eddie Vedder's junior year at San Dieguito High School, he was cast in a school play with Liz Gumble, a student one grade behind him. The two began dating in March 1981, and became, by all accounts, inseparable. When Gumble went away for a brief vacation with her family, Vedder expressed his grief with typical theatricality. “He wore her scarf wrapped around his neck every day till she came back,” says a classmate. But if Vedder’s high school years were less fraught with misery than the singer has claimed, there is little doubt that he did suffer an emotional blow in his senior year when Liz Gumble broke up with him. Friends recall that Vedder was inconsolable after the breakup. “Things fell apart for him in senior year,” says a friend. “He dropped out of the theater production, and someone else had to take over, so I know it had to have been serious, because he took the theater really seriously.” Vedder left San Dieguito High shortly before graduation and moved back to the Chicago area to be with his family.
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine, November 28, 1996
It is rumored that Pearl Jam's song "Black" is about Liz Gumble.