William Warren:  

Hello, If you remember I was one of two boys at the school with long hair. I had dirt blond hair down below my shoulders. Troy was the other. I was kicked out in the eleventh grade for not telling the names of two individuals selling pot on the football field. I lived in Lakeside since the 7th grade. I went to TDS. Now, after looking back. TDS is a great school. Absolutely stands out above the others. I moved modular classrooms for 12 years; and, I saw thousands of schools so I know. El Cap is a great school also. I was out of place in that red neck environment. I did not care. I had my group of friends. We all lived at the top of Tierra Del Sol and Saddle Ridge. We were the wildest bunch of kids in the whole valley. The memories I have from those times I reflect on all the time. Do you remember the flood. Lindo was out into the Safeway parking lot. Me, my brother Ray and Rodney Hughes swam across the San Diego river by the bridge Hwy 67 bridge. This was after the torrential rains had let up but the river was as wide from bank to bank. We swam it both ways. Going the first time wasn't so bad. We started on the school side. The current carried us down river as we swam. Coming back we tried to make it to where we started. What a mistake. It almost took all our lives.; but, we made it. We felt like men that day and totally sapped of all energy. The school would never let me swim with any of the teams because of my long hair. The chicks could do it but n...Expand for more