Scott Ferguson:
CLASS OF 1971
Homestead High SchoolClass of 1971
Cupertino, CA
Whitworth CollegeClass of 1974
Spokane, WA
Scott's Story
This is going to take some time. Looking back, I've really covered some ground since those days in Sunnyvale.
The summer after graduation was a great one. Even though I didn't graduate with everybody else. I thought I was smarter than Mrs. Lyons, but apparently I wasn't. My folks had already move to Central Oregon. They moved in December of my senior year and I spent the last semester living the Jess Pifferini and his family. So when school was out I headed for Sunriver. For those of you unfamiliar with Sunriver, it is a 5500 acre residential resort just south of Bend, Oregon. Beautiful place with the Deschutes River running through it and a great view of Mt Batchelor in the distance.
So I loaded up my VW, along with Mike Bauman and our stuff and headed north to spend the summer chasing girls and drinking beer.
And quite a summer it was. Opportunities abound. My dad introduced me to a gentleman wh...Expand for more
o, having made a tidy sum in the heavy equipment business, had taken up the hobby of buying old boats and restoring them. One of which was the African Queen. The boat, from the movie of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, had been in drydock for years after it had been brought to the US after the movie was shot. Hal Bailey, the owner had totally restored the boat. Powered by wood fired, one piston steam engine, it was restored to it's original glory.
The seats were constructed of dovetailed Gordon's Gin boxes from the old distillery in London.
Hal hired me to be the skipper and run sightseeing tours on the Deshutes River. We had visitors from all over the nation who came to visit the "Queen" Mike and I cut lot of firewood that summer. Today the African Queen quietly sits in her slip in Key Largo. Florida. I stopped to see her a couple of years ago on my way through the Keys.
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