John Head:  

I remember the names of you who have visited my site and I am totally blown away by the attention. I’d love to hear from any of you who want to touch base. I looked through the sophomore class and remember much more than thought I might. It’s been nearly 60 years (next week, damn!) since we graduated but the good memories remain. BTW, hasn’t anyone sent these yearbook people our books from 1963 and 1964? I have both if they want to borrow them. I remember running into Pat Hayden in a sporting goods store in Windsor in about 1968-69. I was buying a new pair of goalie skates (Yep, I played ice hockey!) and we had a brief talk as we were both in a hurry. I also ran into Mike Harvilla when attending Wayne State. We had a talk on a street corner on a particularly sunny and pleasant day in the Spring of 1969-70. The fact that we three are contiguously presented in our yearbook photos is more coincidence than fate, I think. I left Detroit more than once, first in 1964 to join the Marine Corps and the second to find my place in journalism. The last time was in 1979 when I moved to Denver for a job and to get my two great kids, Michelle and David, into schools and areas where putting lug nuts on Buicks wasn't the preferred graduation present. (NOT that there’s anything wrong with that!) Back in those days most of you deemed me smarter than I looked, and you were right. In the first 18 months in the Marines, I learned to be an aircraft electrician/avionics technician, a helicopter loadmaster and a Vietnamese translator. My four years saw me training and working on both coasts and in combat as a door gunner in Viet Nam. I married Barb when I got back, earned a BA in English Composition at Wayne State U and moved around a bit as a newspaper reporter and editor - Dearborn, Alma, Flint - bef...Expand for more