Donna Hyder:
CLASS OF 1964
South Gate High SchoolClass of 1964
South gate, CA
Donna's Story
Living in Mexico in the Lake Chapala area. We live in a small fishing village called San Antonio. My home is one block from the lake. Lake Chapala is about 45 miles outside of Guadalajara Mexico.
What no one from high school knows about me is that there was a so called race riot that the school said "my gang" started. Because of that I was not allowed to have my photos in the graduating photo group, and most of my other photos were removed from the year book. What really happened was that a bunch of us decided to cut school that day and we called in sick. That was the time South Gate High School bused in (I think only) two kids from Watts area. Well the one was a girl who worked in admitting office. She turned us in and one of our friends walked past her in the hall way and called her a fink. She did not want to be in South Gate, so she ran home and messed herself up and said that she was beat up by my gang? I never had a gang. But T.V. stations covered her story and someone had to pay the price. That someone was me. I did not care.
There are other things that no one knows about me. I was going to east Los Angeles Junior college during the time that I was also going to South Gate High School. Also since all secrets are now out, I always volunteered hours working with disabled people since I was fourteen years old in different instit...Expand for more
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I married Edward Leon Strathdee who was in an earlier graduating class. We had one child named Kenneth James Strathdee later changed to Hyder.
I became a hospital administrator at a major hospital in Los Angeles and after our child was born, I left that corporate world. I then became a real estate agent in California, then in Washington State and then sold internationally real estate.
I retired from that world and opened up my own non profit corporation in California to help parents and families maintain their own disabled adult children in their homes by understanding their financial rights within the state of California.
The United States and California changed their policies for the disabled and ran unto some serious financial trouble. I felt that my son would have better opportunities to live freely in the country of Mexico. Sad to say this has proven to be true.
I hope that people in my high school would remember me as a person who was accepting of and to all people and that I was friendly and fun to be with. I enjoyed surfing during the time I was in high school and then switched over to snow skiing and was an instructor for the blind as well as on ski patrol.
My live has been full of fun and adventure - and I have enjoyed it completely. There really is not anything more that I want in life other than what I already have.
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