Looking Back 50 Years Plus

Morningside High School, my alma mater.

We were only 100 in each of two classes when we started so we knew one another.  Look what I discovered on Wikipedia about MHS.

• John Arrillaga: real estate investor 
• Bobbie Bass: TV and movie stuntman[6] TV and movie extra, including Star Trek: The Original Series[7] Stepfather to Bo Derek.
• Carolyn Mitchell (née Barbara Ann Thomason): wife of Mickey Rooney; actress.

My memory of Bobbie was we both having poison ivy at the same time.  He was a funny guy.  Barbara I remember as being the "model, beauty queen" she moved in our last year or two.  I found beyond her label that she was an ordinary person to talk to besides living quite a different life.  Everyone knew John, the basketball star, class president, student body president, didn't date but was congenial to everyone.  His immigrant father was a vegetable dealer in LA that my Dad recalled playing soccer against, Scots vs Magyars.  His Wiki bio has for this year "he again donated to Stanford, writing a check for $151 million, making it the largest individual donation in the school's history."

What prompted all this?

As I was reviewing the story of David and me from 50 years ago I thought to look for online photos, etc. of the time.

When I checked on Westminster High School where I had taught when Dad and I met I was stunned to discover the Freeway serial killer, a horrible story.  This boy was in the graduating class the year I taught home economics at WHS.  There was another student, a girl, who made the notable alumni list from that class.  I loved teaching there.  Who would have guessed the future from that point in time?

Moving on:  It was fun to capture video and a photo of the stands of the Rose Bowl game USC vs Michigan.   Daddy and I went thanks to Jack, my cousin, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce manager.  I remember it as a very exciting game and the video demonstrates that.  No wonder I tend to loose interest watching average games.  But then, I don't know much about the game.

Evidently the digital copy of "Wifie" has been lost so I'm retyping it as I edit.  This got started as a way to anticipate our 50th Anniversary, 21 December.  You know what that means for Mark, he can begin anticipating his 50th birthday!

I'm just finishing the last pages of President Bangerter's autobiography. It has really been an interesting read.  I found it wonderful to read that he and Sister Bangerter and their family celebrated the 50th Wedding Anniversary of he and his first wife, Mildred who died of leukemia after less than 10 years of marriage and 4 children, the last of which died at birth the year before Mildred.

I'm in good company to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of my marriage to David, gone almost 30 years, but not forgotten.   

All this has prompted some nice  little trails of research and clarifications after all these years since that era of my life.  

My occupational hazard and delight.

A teaser,

We sat on the 50-yard line, USC side.  

and another . . . .

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2v-UJ3FMBs