Kevin Wells:  

Hi guys! Many of you I attended Hubbard St. Elementary and Olive Vista Jr. High with. In 1970 I attended my first year of high school at Sylmar High after which my life took a major turn. For family reasons my parents moved to Florida where I spend the summer of 1970 whereupon my family moved to Ellington, Mo, a small town in SE Missouri with a population of 800. I attended Ellington High in 1971. More family crisis sent us packing to Marietta, Ga (just north of Atlanta) the summer of '71 where I graduated from Sprayberry High School in '72. Attending three high schools, each in a different state and each with different cultural attitudes was certainly an opportunity for personal growth. Consider a kid from suburbia LA where people talk normal being moved to a small country town where everyone has an accent and every family seems to be related to one another and has been forever. The nearest movie theater was 60 mi away and the biggest entertainment in town was the pool hall where I became proficient at snooker. After high school I spent the next four years in Georgia working towards my dream of becoming a professional moto-cross racer. I gave it all I had and experienced marginal success but, alas, was never able to break into the factory sponsor...Expand for more