Sondra Courtright:  

When I was at LPHS it wasn't LPUHS. When I was a Junior there it became La Puente Unified High School. I remember the open campus, the rush to the cornor drug store for lunch, or to the quad for frozen bananas. I was really very shy and bookish, my major friends were in the PR Program. I loved school and still love reading. Just before my Senior year my family moved to Indiana so I didn't really graduate from LaPuente, but in my heart LaPuente is my high school. I would have been on the staff of the year book my senior year in the old gym building. I always loved that building. Didn't date much, but my best friends were all part of the PR Program. Merrill McLeod, Dennis Day, Connie Reeves and I all hung out together. It was great fun. I don't usually blow off steam. I read a lot. If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have friends, determination, and patience to be able to deal with the day-to-day. My mother was blind but unless you knew it ahead of time you would never have been able to tell. She has always been the class act I wanted to follow. A marvelous person, and the best way to get her to do something was to tell her, "you can't do that, you're blind." Before the night was over she would have done whatever it was and then som...Expand for more