Guy Lillian:
CLASS OF 1967
Ygnacio Valley High SchoolClass of 1967
Concord, CA
University of CaliforniaClass of 1971
Berkeley, CA
University Heights Junior High SchoolClass of 1963
Riverside, CA
Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolClass of 1961
Tonawanda, NY
Guy's Story
Life
May 2023
I live in Florida as 2024 reaches its midpoint, with my wife Rose-Marie and her father, watching launches from Cape Canaveral, trying to write a memoir of my years as public defender and some fiction (samples available!). Medically, I admit to having early Parkinson's and annoying arthritis. I took Rosy YVHS several years ago, and was upset that: they no longer publish the school newspaper! Rosy and I visited Paris, London and Edinburgh last year, where I got to tear up my bucket list and dance before the Mona Lisa and within Stonehenge. I've posted photos of the trip on Classmates.
I retired as a public defender in Louisiana about 10 years ago.
Rose-Marie, my wife, is a beautiful lady I met in 1976 at a science fiction convention (her father writes the stuff). We married in 2001. She successfully taught journalism and mass communications at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and Eastern Florida State College.. Despite her best efforts to get me to lose weight, I'm enormous -- I must weigh 100 pounds more than the skinny kid you knew at Ygnacio. I'm also bald, and in summer, 2023, will turn 74. (I imagine some of you will pass a similar kidney stone / milestone this year.) Indeed, this wheel keeps on turnin'!
Just as I have for the last umpteen years, I publish an amateur science fiction magazine called CHALLENGER. It was nominated for the science fiction Hugo Award for 12 straight years. Take a look at its listing at eFanzines dot com. Check them out and write me a letter about it! I'm not kidding!
In addition to such places as stated above, and Chicago, Dallas and St. Louis, Rosy and I have twice visited Australia, once in '03, represent...Expand for more
ing American SF fans, and again 7 years later. I wrote long accounts of all these journeys you're welcome to see. (The latter is at eFanzines dot com, or have I said that?) Getting drenched the night we visited Ayers Rock was NOT the highlight. Climbing Hanging Rock, touring Uluru itself, gazing on the Great Barrier Reef, and having a quokka run across my shoes WERE.) Australians are the friendliest, sanest people I've ever met. They make Americans seem bi-polar.
Of Ygnacio people, I saw Kate Snell several years ago, and of the class of '67, Kathleen Corrick and Frank Bosche both visited New Orleans after Classmates.com came into our lives. I've said e-mail hellos to our beloved Ms. Bernstein, Mr. Sillonis and Mr. deKunffy, Brian Comnes (he sent a photo of himself with a guitar), Jan Grogan, Toni Skinner, Joe Dobie, Greg Pilkinton, Jerrell Stewart gave said hello on facebook, and Ellen Rogers was kind enough to read a story of mine. Class acts back in the day, class acts now. I hope to attend our 60th anniversary reunion; so please keep me advised.
For better or for worse, high school is always with us. I really don't think I've changed that much since then, Berkeley and New Orleans and North Carolina and New York and Louisiana and Florida notwithstanding -- except to gain weight, tolerance, possibly wisdom and, hopefully, joy. I'm on Facebook and Yahoo mail. Contact me if you remember me from our shared childhood, and you're so moved.
And even though years have passed since Katrina, I again ask all of you so constituted to say a prayer for my late friend Cynthia Snowden and New Orleans, the city she loved.
Lots more to tell. Be in touch! I'm on Facebook!
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