James "jim" McCormick:  

For those who might vaguely remember my name but not really recall who I am, I was a starter on the varsity football team during my junior and senior year, I was in several plays (including our final Spring Play, "Dracula"), I was the Sophomore Class Oratorical speaker, I served in student government, and I lost the election for student body president by 27 votes to my best friend at the time, Mike Clayton. I may be more well-known for being the older brother of Ralph McCormick [Glendale class of 1969] who also played football and was the Junior Class president 1967-1968. Our last semester, I only took four classes and performed at the Glendale Center Theater six nights a week for three months. Unlike our predecessor at Glendale, Marion "Duke" Morrison [aka John Wayne], I did NOT become a theatrical star. After graduation from Glendale High, I moved to Hawaii in August 1967 to enroll at The Church College of Hawaii in Laie. [It is now BYU-Hawaii]. I played rugby on the national championship team there all three years I was in college. Well, I was on the first team each year, but as my standing on the team went up each year our national ranking went down. We were probably still in the top 10 my last year--perhaps even the top 5 [we lost only one game, by 2 points, to the team that was ranked second that year]--but being in Hawaii and not used to losing games, we never bothered to find out. I went on an LDS mission to Indian Reservations in South Dakota from 1968-1970, came bac...Expand for more