Jeff Taylor:  

West Charlotte High School. I drove by there a few weeks back and even though it has changed dramatically, there's still something about that place...enough so that the first thing I did when I got home was to start Googling some old friends--- and I ended up here on the classmates site. I clicked through about a hundred names...its funny...I can't remember what I had for lunch today...but each one of those names (many that I hadn't thought of in almost 30 years) triggered memories more vivid than I can adequately describe. I remembered Old English 800. I could smell Kelly's "Gee your hair smells terrific" shampoo. Scary as it is, I remembered the layout of the Davant's old lake house at Lake Wylie. I put on a "Who" CD and remembered those cranking box speakers in the Norman's yellow Pinto ("Won't Get Fooled Again" never sounded so good). I heard Keith's laugh and remember how psyched Rob was when he was recording a cassette and the last bit of tape rolled by about 3 seconds after the record ended..."perfect timing". I remembered exactly where I was standing when the announcement came over the intercom about Joel's leg. There were a lot of people that I wished I'd told how much I admired and appreciated them. Was glad to see that the best kisser on earth (except for my wife) was on the list. So, not to bore you all, but here is my "what have you been doing for the last 30 years" snapshot. I never left Charlotte. Had plenty of opportunities to move, but the roots were too deep. After college, traveled around a bit until I decided on a "real job". I married my dream girl in September 1988 and 20 years later, we live up at Lake Norman and have 2 kids. Camille is 16 and our son Jody is 8 (some of you might remember my son's namesake- Jody Pangle-- he went to WC as a sophomore and then moved to Auburn, Alabama. He's been my best friend since I was 4, and to this day still asked about all the crowd from WC--- especially the guys on the soccer team). Speaking of soccer, ...Expand for more