Linda Deguair:  

Aloha classmates! I was born in Tulare on May 10, 1949. I come from a agricultural background. My grandfather migrated from Pico in the Azore Island around 1920. He decided he would settle in California and built a home on 80 acres of land in Lemoore. He was a cattleman, dairyman and farmer. By the time I was born he had already retired. My father did not want to follow in his dad's footsteps entirely. He was a dairyman most of his life. From the time I started school I lived on a ranch seven miles West of Tulare. In 1955 I started school at Pleasantview Elementary school and in third grade transferred to the old Enterprise school. It was incorporated in 1958 into Oak Valley Elementary. I was there until I graduated in 1963. From there I attended Tulare Western High until June 1965 when we moved to the East part of Tulare. I attended Tulare Union from 1965 until 1967 when I graduated. I traveled after graduation from the rest of 1967 to the Fall of 1968. I took a few classes at COS in the Fall of 1968 and continued until 1970. They were night classes as I worked during the day for the...Expand for more