Tony (Bud) Conte:  

My story is fairly straightforward. After graduating from GLRHS, I attended Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT with Harry Shallcross and Jan Mytelka. After getting my BA degree in 1967, I was fortunate to land a teaching job at the Punahou School, Honolulu, HI. From there I went to San Francisco, CA, and began my sales career with Xerox. There I met the former Terry McCarthy, and we ultimately married in 1979. A year later (actually 9 months and 3 days later), Peter was born, and he was followed by Anne and Thomas. At the same time, I moved from Xerox into the application software business where I stayed until the demands of my young family prompted me to apply my sales skills in an industry that allowed me, among other things, to be home every night: residential real estate. After twelve years representing Buyers and Sellers, I then worked with developers selling multi-family projects for the following ten years. When that all came to an end in 2008 in the wake of the financial crisis, I returned to residential resale with Prudential California Realty in my hometown of Orinda, CA. Terry and I celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary in June. Our adult children all stayed in the Bay Area and see their aging parents very often. We all enjoy going between our family home to our place at North Lake Tahoe, both in the summer and the winter. I was delighted to have dinner a while back with Ted Davis when he was in San Francisco. Joyce Handler and I connect via e-mail once in a great while. Other than that, I really have had very little contact with my high school friends. I always wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a great idea. As it happened, they are okay with how things turned out..... Work is my primary hobby. When I'm not working, I enjoy making my yard look beautiful and getting together with the family and friends at both homes. I find that I am slowly becoming my father, Tony. He always tried to be kind, generous, calm, and very funny. He was also very proud of my accomplishments, even though I didn't really deserve the title of "Most Likely To Succeed." I will never forget that he made a special effort to attend my induction into the National Honor Society my senior year when I was too ill to go. It was the first and last time that he stepped foot into my high school. For whatever reason, it was not a comfortable place for him to be and yet he took it upon himself to represent his only son on that day. I watch a lot of professional sports, and I really enjoy first-rate movies. In fact, when I was at Punahou, I helped create and subsequently taught a class to seniors called Novel to Film. I hear from former students that it was the best English class that they ever took. Today it wouldn't be such a "novel" type of course in high school. My children keep me young and informed. They are so much more aware of the world around them than I ever was, and I am blessed that they seem to like including me in every aspect of what they do. Campus life at Wesleyan was great. I was a member of Chi Psi with Jan Mytelka, and I was a dorm counselor in my senior year. Both w...Expand for more