John Fowler:
CLASS OF 1979
Apple Valley High SchoolClass of 1979
Apple valley, CA
Antelope Valley CollegeClass of 2004
Lancaster, CA
New Mexico Highlands UniversityClass of 1989
Las vegas, NM
Victor Valley Community CollegeClass of 1987
Victorville, CA
College of the DesertClass of 1982
Palm desert, CA
John's Story
Life
Hi everyone, how's it goin'? Just to let you know, I'm always on facebook. I like that better than classmates. It's free and it's much easier to communicate with friends. I don't really check this classmates site very much anymore. If you want to visit me over at facebook just search for John Fowler and I should come up ...Anyhow, I've got two kids now, Little Johnny the 4th. (3 and a half) and Jaley (19 mos. as of this writing on 4-3-01).(Update: Now they're going on 8 and 6, time flies! further update: Now they're 12 & 10!) Goodbye for now, hope to see you all at the next reunion. -John.
College
After graduating from Apple Valley High School in'79 I attended VVC in the fall of that same year. I was a starter on the football team as a defensive lineman. Unfortunately, the school dropped its football program after that season.
In 1981 I went down to Palm Desert to attend school and play football at College of the Desert. I earned a starting spot on the team, again on the D-Line. I played the first three games before finding out that I was ineligible to play due to transfering with one too few credits. (Evidently, since the school I had last played for had dropped its football program, the coach at COD thought I'd be okay due to a "Hardship", but he was wrong and I was off the team.)
In 1986 VVC brought back football. My three games at COD were considered a "red shirt" season and, therfore, I was eligible to play for the Rams in the 1986 season. I again earned a starting spot on the D-Line and was named Most Valuable Lineman by the coaching staff at the post-season awards banquet.
After being recruited by several small four-year schools, I decided to go to Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I was named as the starting nose guard. The next week I was named as the defensive Player of the Week by the coaching staff.
Unfortunatley, ineligibility bit me in the ass again. Just before our first pre-season game my transcripts came in from VVC. Unbeknownst to me, I had failed Intermediate Algebra and, of all things, weightl...Expand for more
ifting! I frantically tried to get a change of those grades. My algebra teacher was willing to lift my grade from an F to a D if I turned in a semester's worth of homework that I hadn't done. I, with the help of team-mate Andy Pearson, burned the midnight oil and completed all the homework in about two days and then Fed-Exed it back to Victorville. He raised my grade.
All that was left was getting my weightlifting teacher to change my grade from an F to a D and my eligibility would've been restored. But the teacher, baseball coach Tony Brown, wouldn't do it for me. He said he was too afraid he'd get in trouble, that it would look fishy. Even after telling him that my algebra teacher had changed my grade he was still too much of a pussy to do it. If I sound a little bitter it's because I am. You may think that I only have myself to blame for this, but I think only partially so. Brown led me to believe that I could lift weights whenever the gym was open, to fit around my work schedule, and not have to attend during the scheduled time. Believe me, I was in that weight room alot getting ready for the next football season. I improved my bench press max. from about 310 pounds to over 445 pounds! Not once during the semester did Brown tell me that I needed to take, or make-up any of his written tests that he administered. Not once did he tell me I had an attendence problem, eventhough I never signed into his class. Like I said, we had an understanding and then he screwed me. To this day,losing my eligibility at Highlands is one of the greatest disappointments of my life. If I could go back and change anything, that would be it.
Anyhow, after that semester I moved back to California and embarked on a career with the Postal Service. In the Spring of 1997 I took a journalism class at Antelope Valley College and joined the campus newapaper staff. That next fall I was awarded First Place for Best News Story by the Journalism Association of Community Colleges.
Since then, I've been taking screeenwriting, acting and film classes at AVC.
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