Walt Larsen:  

Life I recall that in my junior year at San Pasqual Academy, I asked my boss, mister Walter Cox if I could have the truck driving job for my senior year. He replied that it was already taken by Kenny Faust, but I could have the backup position when he wasn't available, and so I went home to Englewood Colorado that summer and studied for a chauffeurs truck driving license and got it on the first try. During the first part of my senior year, Ken asked me if I would take the job full time because he needed to study, and so I had the job almost for the entire year hauling the trash from the campus to the dump at the riverbed. I was not much of a a popular item with the boys at San Pasqual, and of course I would have never been a success at politics, but it was another matter when considering the girls. It was a great year for me with a lot of attention from those sweet young things that made my day. I remember the time at the cafeteria on the hill, and as I was leaving a pretty girl called to me to stop, and then she said, "I am in love with you." Of course I knew that it was just puppy love for she didn't know me at all. I recall the time we went as a group for a picnic at Escondido, and I drove the two ton truck there with all the kids laughing and hooting, and when it came time to return to the campus, mister Arn Slater, the class sponsor asked if he could drive, and so I turned the keys over to him to my chagrine. We had a very small senior class that year, and some of the boys left and the group became even smaller, and now I notice that at least half of the males are dead and gone into the great beyond. By the way, mister Cox was a favorite teacher and one I looked up to and through the years saw him at almost every reunion, and the last time in 1998, he told me he now had aszheimers and couldn't recall some of those old times we shared at San Pasqual. I attended La Sierra College the next year, and after that Riverside City College for a year. After that I was drafted into the US Army as a Whitecoat Human Guineapig at Frederick, Maryland. That is where my dreams were fulfilled when I found my true love and soulmate; Nancy Lee Medvee. We both first worked for the federal government in Washington DC for a year, and then we moved to Denver, Colorado where our first daughter was born at Porter Hospital. I was in production control at Stanley Aviation at the airport for five months. We then moved to Loma Linda, California and I worked for the Department of Employment in the Disability Insurance phase of operations. I stayed there for three years. After a stint in Orlando Florida I spent the rest of my worklife in the aerospace game as an aircraft mechanic and industrial instructor for a time. I retired for good in 1997, and now live in the mountains of Tehachapi, California. We love it here. We have three children and ten grandchildren. I spend my time writing poetry and creating art as a sculptor and graphic pencil artist. I used to be a ham radio operator, but the computer has taken it's place as a profound way to communicate and to display what I can do within the written word and of the arts. wcl I do my creativities from a second story room overlooking the Tehachapi mountains, and yes we are crazy about where we live. WOW and what a life, and we wish it would last forever, and of course we do perceive that we are within our sunset years. By the way, I just learned the sad news of the death of teacher Walter Cox PHD at Angwin California. He was eighty four and had alzheimers disease. He was so smart and really cool when I worked fo...Expand for more