James Barger:  

Life I have retired from the US Army as a LT Col. I flew Helicopters in the Vietnam War. I recently retired from Fedex. My Son and Daughter are now married and I am a Grandfather of four girls and one boy. I still have video copies of the Senior Class Movie. Life is good now that I have two retirements. I have converted the Senior Class Movie to DVD Now. I have restored my first car, a 1967 Red Camaro RS, to its original state when I first bought it new just as I was graduating from College. My wife and I work at several charities in Sacramento through our Church and I am active in Veterans Organizations such as Veterans of Foreign Wars and Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association. We also now travel yearlly to our new Condo in Hawaii and stay for a week on the Western shore of Oahu. We wish everyone Peace and Good Health in the coming years and hope to see you at various Reunions. School The one thing I can say was that I attended a lot of different schools in California as my Dad got promoted working for the State Division of Oil and Gas. I began my Elementary School education in Santa Maria and by the third grade we moved to Downey, CA and I attended Rio Hondo School. The one thing I remember at this school was that one of my classmates was on Art Linkletter's House Party. We moved to Taft, CA by the time I was ready for Seventh Grade and I attended Lincoln Jr High School. I played the String Bass in Orchestra and in the Eighth Grade I received the Patty Knox award for highest grade point average among Eighth Grade Boys. I was also elected President of Boys League that year. The next year (1959) I went to Taft High School and had the priviledge of being in Bailey Newlee's Freshman English class. He was rough on me, but I learned a lot of valuable lessons for the future like the punctuation rules(1w) and that I needed to quit using a pencil and write with a pen. I also had Mr Field for Geography and learned how to draw maps. But my best subjects were Algebra and French. In my Junior year I was just starting to get used to Chemistry and was about to have Bailey Newlee for Junior English when my Dad got transferred to Woodland, Ca Now I had to put off Chemistry for my Senior Year and took drama instead at Woodland High School. I also had US History, English and advanced Math from Leonard Thather. In my Senior year I had the most fun taking English from Mr Young, Trig from Mr Thather, and drama from Mr Sugars. I remember trying out for the play "Our Town" and get a bit part. However, the thing that made the year complete was playing different roles in the Senior Class Movie shot by Gary Dodson. The movie did not win first prize at the Class Assemblies at the State Theater, but I always knew that what we had crea...Expand for more