Rhonda Boatner:  

I began my days as a "Bulldog" the first day of school of my freshman year, as I had just moved to Oregon from New Mexico at the beginning of my freshman year. It was hard, since I knew absolutly no one there. I was the "odd man out" in the Band since I played the cello, so during football season I played the xylophone. I guess school was okay but there was the one person, who from day one, did not like me. Unfortunatly I had her in one class every year. Could never figure it out, but that was okay since I had made friends with others, mostly those who I attended church with, although they were from the Class of 82. My freshman, sophomore year I delievered the paper, The World, to the neighborhood around the Jr/High School and up to the A&W. My Jr year I got involved in drama and choir and was in the play, Rumplestlltskin. Now in the fall of 79, is when I met my future husband. We started dating in 80, and were married in July of 80, oh and no, we did not get married because I was pregnant. I met him at church and he was stationed on the Coast Guard Cutter Citrus there in Coos Bay. Unfortunatly, he was tran...Expand for more