James Cunningham:  

nd newspaper teams, drama, and in the concert/marching band ("Western Star Regiment") - and that year we won Western's first band trophies... for Best Band, Best Percussion and Best Brass... at the coveted Deerfield Beach Invitational. A bitter sweet victory because the football team hadn't even won a single game yet, let alone a trophy (and I almost had my brains smashed in when I reminded a player of this fact during half-time after he asked when we were going to finally create a Fight Song for the school). I also attended Christian Academy [High], McArthur High and Hollywood Hills high in Hollywood Florida. My last year of high school - quite literally the most miserable - was at Alhambra High in Martinez California. Since leaving highs school and riding the wildest roller coaster of a life - including (by the grace of God) surviving the '89 San Francisco earthquake, escaping the '92 Rodney King L.A. Riots with half of my teeth broken, surviving a violent hate crime and home invasion, beating deer-tick Lyme disease, and currently battling cancer. I'm now a business owner, a Christian theologian and doctor of divinity, historian, museum manager and Docent, published author, published photographer, civil rights activist, traveller, and happily settled down with my life partner. But enough about me.