Tony Whitehorn:  

Life Retired from 29 year Foreign Service Career - China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Brazil, Portugal. hui putong hua, falo portugues. Married 42 yrs. four children. ten grandchildren. Head a small china trade and investment company in Arizona. I graduated from Phoenix West High (64) and was a loyal Thunderbird with lots of new friends and teacher mentors. I attended West's 30th and 40th reunions, but also, for the first time, I attended an East Bakersfield High Class of 64 Reunion - so I could meet up with friends I had known before moving to Phoenix. I attended EBHS from 60-63 and their 40th was a joint reunion with rival Bakersfield High, but it cast a wider net of friends we had known since elementary school. Hardly a soul remembered me, but met a few who did and had a great time. Subsequently, I helped organize a small 45th reunion at Wool Growers in Bakersfield, a more quiet and intimate setting where we could have real conversation and catch up. I grew up in Bakersfield - lived on 5th street, U Street, and finally Pomona St. in College Heights. Those homes seemed so much larger in the 50's - Mark Twain made a similar observation of his home in Hannibal, guessing that if he came back in another ten years his home would be no bigger than a dog house. But, biking over to Carnation for ice cream, my dad driving me by the ruined clock tower on Truxton after the 1952 earthquake, meeting the last living full blooded Yokut indian (so we were told), officer chitwood, climbing the bluffs, endless summer hours swimming up at the college or sitting in the stacks at th...Expand for more