Felix Hernandez:  

It's been a long time since school days.Who would have thought that at this age I would reflect on those times. I wish that I could have been more mature . and looked at things like I do now, But I suppose thats part of growing up. ( Or Older ) I was not a very good student and plainly lost interest in school..You might say that if I had to do it over again , I would change some things , espcially showing more interest in school. I had some good teachers along the way that helped keep me in school for the short period of time that I was there. I cut a lot of classes and would get in minor trouble. At the time it seemed more serious , but I was on the verge of getting in serious trouble. Mr Macaffrey was always good to me. He would always lecture me about school and how I could be anything I wanted to be if I tried hard enough. He had a lot of patience with me . I used to play the part of tough guy in school along with some of my friends. We were not , it was more like trying to fit in some where and be a part of some thing. I had good friends that really stuck together.Some of us played music and would compete with other Bands. Our group consisted of Henry Garcia Jr on the drums, John Ortiz vocalist and guitar,, Louie Sedeno as the lead guitar and vocalist , me as bass & rythem guitar player. The name of the band was The Innocents . We played here and there and played for the Geyserville High school graduation class of 1967. Louie and John gave military service for their country.They passed away a few years ago. They died so young. Another good friend Jesse Chamberlain passed away,I miss them . There's many others that I remember but never took the time to get to know, I wish that I could have. I also remember how exciting it was to go to the dances and check out the girls. Believe it or not , I was some what bashful and shy. Some people took it as being conceited.There was one girl that I had a real bad crush on , I never got to know her name.She rode the same school bus and lived on the East side of los amigos Rd North from Redwood Rd, ln Windsor. She lived in a big spanish style house on the east side of the road with a long road to her house with palm treeson each side of the Rd..You might say that to me she was the pretty woman that Roy Orbison sang about but she never came walking back to me. I don't think that she knew what a crush I had on her. She probably didn't even know i existed. She lived in what i would say upper crust life , even though it appeared that she didn't act like it. You might say I was from the other side of the tracks Then there was the other one that I did get to know in High School, She was my first love. It got to where she was all I thought about and dreamed of Some how things never worked out between us .She went on in life and married some one else and I went my way, It took me a long time to get over her. Time changes things. I read a little Bio on Ron Maginnis here at Class- Mates. At one time he was my neighbor and I never took the time to rea...Expand for more