David Lamothe:  

Life I have a lovely wife and one child. I have a mortgage, two cars and I'm in debt up to my eyeballs. Please help me. No just kidding (10's and 20's would be nice...(grin!)) Actually things are looking ok to great, and I am chugging along quite well, thank you. School I have had many thing happen since high school. It prepared me to deal with some, didn't prepare me to deal with others, and those it didn't prepare me for I just had to deal with in the school of hard knocks, such is life, right? Oh well. The most fun I had in school was working at the school newspaper, with Mr. Diamond and the rest of the crew at the Spyglass, and the creative writing and art clubs, those were the greatest. Advanced Chem and Bio were pretty fun, especially Mr. Brown throwing ether on the desks of students and making them fall asleep, and slicing up the cats w/Mr. Mckinley. And no one who experienced him could forget Mr. Rupar the Physics teacher, and his coming in every year with something else either broken or sprained (always wondered if he was into what is now known as extreme sports, or if he was just unlucky..) Geography was fun up on the 4th floor, and Mr. Hoffman, who was one of my favorite teachers there, in History/Social Studies, as were Mrs. Acker, Brown and Campbell and Mr. Rowe in English class. And one can not forget the lovely Miss Hollandsworth, the new (at that time) French teacher (la femme fatale, rowr rowr -- the only reason to take French.) The craziest school memory was the fire, we all remember that, and the Mono outbreak in the Junior class when we were all Sophomores (seemed like quite a few kids got sick and were out for a while...didn't really hear what it was but when they announced that one kid had mono, and the hot rumor was that they spread it around the 3rd floor through the drinking fountains (or so I remember, 20 years can cloud ones memory...), that's all one can assume based on the evidence. I have always wondered if that tennisball I got all of on the tennis courts is still on top of the school or the Southwestern Bell building, or Job Service across the street (I think all of us hit one long with the lob-ster machine just to see if we could...) I...Expand for more