Ed Aguirre:
CLASS OF 1952
Grant Union High SchoolClass of 1952
Sacramento, CA
Johnson High SchoolClass of 1988
Sacramento, CA
Hagginwood Elementary SchoolClass of 1947
Sacramento, CA
Dos Rios Elementary SchoolClass of 1946
Sacramento, CA
Ed's Story
Life
I've been to many places and lived in many places. I've been married twice, and my second wife and I will have been married twenty years this November. At this time, we live in a small town in New Mexico and are enjoying every minute of the quiet life. We have our grandchildren living across the street from us and are able to share in their lives every day. It is so great to be far removed from the crowds and traffice of a metropolitan area. If we feel the need to see the "big city", we are only a couple of hours away from a couple of them. My wife graduated from Hiram Johnson. We have one daughter and three grandchildren - a girl and two boys. We recently moved to this area from Alaska where we spent two years in Anchorage. Prior to that we were on the Mexican border in a small town of 3,000 people and in an area where much of the 1910 Mexican Revolution was played out. I was fortunate in being able to ride horseback across the desert and along the Rio Grande, and able to revive my hispanic heritage. We belong to a wonderful Church and enjoy the closeness of it. My family has been through a lot of hard times, but they only served to cement the bond that holds us together. All in all it has been one exiciting roller coaster ride.
School
Let's see. I began in 1948 finished in Jan 1952. In between nothing much, same as many others. There were goo...Expand for more
d times, bad times. I had a couple of great friends, a couple of great teachers, and a few rotten ones. Mostly, I enjoyed tweaking the noses of the snobs....especially some of those hot shot footplayers and overweight debmarines. Grant was a great high school back then. I was fortunate to have had some outstanding teachers. And what other high school anywhere had an ex-Flying Tiger teaching flying lessons. And across the way we had Grant Tech which had a powerhouse basketball team that played in the Nationals, and had All-American players. Our own school had some great athletes, too - swimmers, football, baseball, and basketball. As a freshman, my basketball heroes were Billy Ray Williams, Glenn Tipton, and Joe Geyer. In swimming we had Roland Gardner and Jon Stebbins. In football who else but Gene Filipski, probably the best all around athlete Grant Union ever produced. There was a unique aura about Grant in 1948, 1949, 1950. I am sorry to say it began to fade in 1951, and was gone completely in 1952. Perhaps the athletes weren't as big, strong or fast as they are today. But they had a quiet determination and style that you just don't see anymore. Mostly, I miss their sportmanship and willingness to help a player less talented than they were. Th ey weren't so concerned with the media..They played because they wanted to and "for the love of the game." .
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