1. What year did you graduate? 1971
2. Did you date someone from high school? No – never did.
3. What kind of car did you drive? I drove an old Audi that nearly killed me in a accident when the drive shaft broke. Then I drove a 1965 gold Ford Falcon. I liked that car.
4. What was the most embarrassing moment of high school? There are too many to list since I had one every week. I guess the worse was the day I wore my Star Trek shirt to school (or was it the day I wore a Gandhi shirt?) or….
5. Were you a party animal? Ha Ha. I was only invited to one party from school and that was in my senior year; a beach party in La Jolla.
6. Were you considered a flirt? What is flirting?
7. Were you in band, orchestra or choir? Nope.
8. Were you a nerd? Yeah pretty much.
9. Were you on any varsity teams? Yes. I was on the high school rifle team for three years.
10. Did you get expended or expelled? I was never expelled. The school did call my Dad once to pick me up. That was the day I skipped classes to go to the anti war rally (Southeast Asia; the Vietnam war for you young folks) at San Diego State. It was a strange day. I met some SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) leaders and some Black Panthers. I got caught coming back into campus to get my car and the Principal called the police.
11. Can you still sing the fight song? We did not have a fight song that I remember but we did sing All Hail to Our Alma Matter a lot.
12. Who were your favorite teachers? Mr. Brown – He took me out of a general science class and put me in Physics. He told me that I was too smart to be in general science. The physics class had all the “beautiful people” in it. On the first test, which was two days after I got in the class, I did bad and only got a C. Turns out it was one of the highest grades in the class. Guess Mr. Brown was right but it also showed me how over inflated the reputations were of the “beautiful people’.
13. What classes do you wish you would have taken? I don’t have any I wish I had taken but I wish I had taken my German classes more seriously since I ended up spending 10 years in Germany.
14. What was your schools full name?
Samuel F B Morse High School in San Diego California.
15. School mascot? Tiger.
16. Did you go to homecoming and who with? Yes with my neighbor, Karen. We went to a nice restaurant in Mission Valley, and then went to the prom. Too many beautiful people and it was loud and crazy. We left and went to the beach and strolled around. I don’t think Karen had much fun.
17. Where did you go on senior skip day? No such thing when I was in school. If there was I never got told about it.
18. Were you in any clubs? Yes a few. I was on the school newspaper for many years and was in ROTC so did a lot there; went to summer camp at Fort Irwin, went to rifle ranges all over southern California, and many parades.
19. What do you remember most about graduation? My grand mother flew from Ohio to be there. It was also right after my Dad retired from the Navy. It was held on the football field and was sunny. We were seated in alphabetical order. That was special because whenever we took tests and such we were always together alphabetically and two of them had been with me for 6 years.
20. What advice would you give yourself? Read the book and do the homework. Don’t take yourself so serious.
21. Are you planning on going to any of your reunions? I am on the reunions notification list but I will most likely never attend. See that would become one of those embarrassing moments because I would walk in and no one would remember me.
22. If you could go back and do it again would you? Never; though I might think about dating someone from my own school next time.
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