Melvin L. Houston:  

Just joined Classmates for the second time after about a 6 year layoff. I canceled my origional membership because only two people ever responded, to my letters (thanks Gretchen) after a year. So I figured the site was a good idea but it wasn't quite working out the way I expected it to. Just signed up for another two years though. Hopefully this time I will have a better chance of getting in contact with some of my old classmates and friends from the Sacramento area. For those of you that may not know, I attended John Still between the years 71 or 72-74, or something like that. After graduation from John Still Jr. high, I attended Kennedy during the fall semester of 74, and had not even completed the 1st semester before moving to Los Angeles in November. Otherwise, I would have graduated from Kennedy in 77. I still consider myself a Cougar. I currently live just outside of Los Angeles. In 2001 (at age 41) I got married (I held out as long as I could) and now I have two sons ages 13 & 15 as of Sept 2016. After many years of college (and different majors) I ultimately became an aerospace engineer, designing elec...Expand for more