Angela Shane:  

Dear high school peers, It's near our 50th, so i joined. I transferred to Mainland in 10th grade, but I was pretty quiet, and probably a little weird, so I am probably not especially remembered, and my parents moved right after I started college so I never went back to Somer's Point. I was friends with June Blackman, and drove a yellow Austin Healy sprite, which is probably more memorable than me. Anyone who remembers me would remember me as Andy. Now Anna (annie) Shane. And I had a older sister who won the Goldy Beacon spelling contest. It was announced in home room, on that scratchy PA system. So, after high school I went to college in Wisconsin, and then moved back to California, (I was from California) and started graduate school after I got sick of working as a secretary, when I also realized I didn't want to stay broke forever. Anyway, I ended up getting a PhD in psychology, and then did a post doc in Lacanian psychoanalysis, to be cool and cutting edge, and I ended up in Berkeley. Where I fit in, pretty much. It was great to be a child of the 60's, even in real time - nostalgia is just a bonus. The rest of you too!!! We had the music and the counter-culture, we rocked, we invented it. We saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and we watched Bonanza in color. Two poles from very cool to way uncool. We had Peter Paul and Mary, and Bob Dylan. I could get TV reception from NYC at 2:00 a.m., and If I could, so could all of us. I strummed the guitar and sang folk songs about where the flowers had gone, and I sported long straight Miss Clairol Blond/Orange hair and dark roots. (But the mini skirts came a year later, with the just in time panty hose.) So, what do I remember about Mainland. I used to have this reoccurring nightmare where turns out I hadn't finished high ...Expand for more