Cheryl Adams:  

I didn't graduate from AVHS. Truth is I never even attended AVHS. I did attend 1 semester of AVJH in 1973 and I attended Mariana Elementary School during 4th, 5th, & 6th grades. (1970 - 1973). This was the longest amount of time I ever spent in one school. Before that the longest time at one school was no more than 4 months. After that I did go to a couple of schools where I actually completed a semester in the same school that I had started it in. So the reason I looked up the AVHS class of '79' is because I am curious about whatever happened to those kids that I went to school with.I was very shy, quiet, & socially awkward, as a result of always having been "The New Kid". I believe the kids thought I was odd, a misfit to be sure. I was painfully shy and extremely self conscience.I doubt that any of them even remember me with maybe 1 exception...Nancy Lea Sirk...I went to visit her a few years later when I was in the area visiting my grandparents. She was very gracious and kind to invite me in and visit just as though it was perfectly natural to have the class oddball show up at your door years later, uninvited and unexpected. Thank you Lea, for being the warm person that you were, I can't tell you how genuinely happy and good I felt after visiting with you. These are the kids I remember going to school with for three years...Lea Sirk, Patty Mac Claine, Carolle Bader whose bff was Tammy Smith, Nelson Smith best friends with Willie White ,Kim Robinson bff of Linda who's brother Tom was bf w/ Richard Sumner. Then Mike Reese and his side kick Paul (whose last name I knew as well as my own unt about 10 yrs. ago) ( too many nights partying + old age = do I kno you? lol) those two were the class clowns & made us smile and laugh at their antics when they would "disrupt the class" Thanks guys for all the yawns you replaced with grins. Karie Tatro..another misfit, I apologize for not being nicer to you, I should have befriended you or at least tried, but I wanted to be accepted so much and I was afraid that to be friends with you would seal my fate when in fact I never did anything else to fit in other than not befriending you. Rusty, Glenda, Wally, Robert Hicks, Mr. Barrington, Mr. Mitchell , Ms. Day with her harpsichord, Mrs Port whose husband was MIA in Vietnam and who tried to motivate us and make us politically aware when Nixon was running for re-election on the platform of bringing our boys in Vietnam back home and ending the draft. I hope that hers was one of the men who did came home alive and whole. I have some great memories of all of you and our school, especially 6th grade, that was great...The field trip to Wrightwood for the week-end. The boys scaring the girls with Bigfoot stories and then making noises outside the girls cabin right before cutting the lights to our cabin and busting through the door...lol...remember the 1st morning when we woke up and found the Bigfoot foot prints they had placed all around our cabin the night before using a plaster mold and making growling and thumping noises while doing it. Naughty boys. For some reason I bet Mike and Paul were probably the masterminds behind the two day prank. And I remember we split up into 3 groups to hike / ra...Expand for more