Carol Bonnet:  

Wow, thinking back to days at Alhambra High - one day REALLY stands out. November 22, 1963. Radios weren't allowed on campus, but that day, they were playing the news reports all over campus as we all walked around stunned. How could that happen? Why? Who? Now, what would our world be like without our president? We saw Jacqueline with that pink suit & blood on it. Later came the funeral & the small son making a salute. Now, John-John is gone, as well as Jackie. Camelot, it was called. That seemed to be the end of our years of innocence. OK, about me.....I graduated from Alhambra with some of the same "kids" I'd gone to Granada Elementary School. They built a school to the west, across the street from Granada & it wasn't until after I graduated they changed that school's name from Valencia to Granada Elementary East (my granddaughter attended there). My old school was changed to Granada West Middle School. When I went there, we had first through eighth grades. After I graduated (I walked beside Lee Haws because of my height) from Granada in 1960, my family moved to Glendale to a larger house to accommodate two girls & one boy, which didn't work well in a two bedroom house. I attended Glendale High for three years, then talked my parents into having my father drop me on his way to work & pick me up, so I could be with some old friends. I had been a shy one & my younger sister had all the friends, which made me "Sharon's sister" instead of her being known as MY younger sister. I attended Grand Canyon College for summer & fall. Then, married someone I met at GCC that spring. It didn't last & by the time our son was 2, we were divorced. My second marriage lasted a year. My third marriage lasted a little longer, but that, too, ended in divorce. I've remained friends with all ex-husbands. Then, I took account of myself & what I had, what I could offer, what I wanted out of life & this time, my marriage has been good & strong since 1978. Dan & I met at a singles square dance class when I stood by his Honda Gold Wing motorcycle. Until knees & hips had to be replaced, we continued dancing. But, we still ride our Gold Wings. Mine is a trike conversion. Dan retired from Scottsdale Police Department & has driven school bus since he retired in 1989. We moved to Cottonwood from Scottsdale over the 1996-97 school year & he drove bus for the high school in Cottonwood un...Expand for more