Marie Rayburn:  

Life I was part of the Cool Clan, along with Lorraine Davis, Karen Nolan, Aileen & Karen Ju, Cindy Gath, Adrian Jackson, Myra Robinson (Miss HB!!!) and company. My little brother Carlos graduated in 83. I've held a variety of jobs in the years since leaving Edison...not only "civilian" as an office worker or sales woman, but as a model and actress (have been in a few low budget movies along with several television programs). After working at Disneyland for 11 years (the boss was cool about giving time off to go out and audition), I decided it was time to get a life and go back to school. I have my B.A. in Art History from Cal State Long Beach, and after working on languages for awhile (I need Greek, Latin, German, French and Italian for my proposed area of study), I plan to get my M.A., then hopefully PhD. I have been married to John Rayburn (Jordan High...Long Beach) for over 12 years and we have 4 adorable birds. My mother STILL lives in the same house in HB, and my bro's family (4 kids) have taken over at the Crestview place. I'm just happy as a clam doing my own thing. And NO, I'm not volunteering for ANYTHING again for the next reunion. I'm way too busy treading water between the house, school and family. We now have a cute Colonial Revival cottage in old Fullerton, and damn the L.A. Times for calling downtown Fullerton the new Old Town Pasadena. It used to be our little secret *sighs* School I suppose I was like a lot of other girls at Edison with crushes on the guys who paid the least attention to me: Tim Innes (who said hello to me exactly two times in six years) and Ray Gomez (more of the same). I loved my time with the various performing arts classes - Choir with Mr. Otey, Drama with Mr. Staneart and Dance with Mrs. Wood. Orchestra could have been better. *cough* Mr. Tallman's words stayed with me all these years. "We have to find a way for you to keep something artistic in your life," spoken when I was leaving the orchestra for other pursuits. Now I know I can't live without art, music and constant creativity. If I had to do it all over again, I think I would have applied myself more academically, gone straight on to UCLA or USC, travelled more throughout Europe and not looked back. I wasted...Expand for more