David Hill:  

email me taz8310 at comcast.net....I came to Branham in my soph year from a lifer military background. Always moving always making new friends. Never knowing anyone for any extended period of time. For the first few weeks, I was invisible. very few people talked to me and this was what seemed like about the thousandth time this happened. Finally I started making a few friends but never really connected with anyone. Then swim season came around and I was back in competative swimming again. Scott Zadel was an amazing swimmer. During kick drills he rested more than he swam because he was also on the cross country team and most of the rest of the swim team took 3 times as long in the kick drills than Scott. I was a shy person in my early years, withdrawn and introverted in most activities. I was too small for the more popular sports like basketball and foot ball. Couldn't hit the ball worth a darn so baseball was out. and no one ever came to the swim meets, not even girlfriends. Swimming is a boring sport to watch and so I was basically an invisible student. I remember my first classes with Mr Fisher, Mr Dragon, Mr Dwyer and Mr Beebe. The first two made the classes fun and interesting. The latter two were boring and put me, and many others as well, to sleep. Along came my senior year...Expand for more