Its Strange Inside the Reunion

We are faced with an interesting situation. Should the committee release the names of the deceased classmates on the web. The committee is split.

But.. being on the inside and knowing the names... I take a little uncredited solice in knowing that one of my freshman class bullies is not around. He threatened me out of using by locker. So every day I had to haul my books.. all of them up the 12 flights of steps to the pe department. Then home 2 and half miles.. up hill. Some of you know this hill.

Our class was a bubble class. Classrooms were not built to house our numbers. We were in split sessions. And this followed all the way up to high school. Suddenly this boomer class arrived with huge numbers. When capacity was reached and the numbers started to shrink back again, there were too many classrooms constructed. The school board was faced with selling off old elementary schools to day care companies and often to their private competition.

Merced is still building schools and classroom capacity. Will we be in that spot down the road? Its seems like our yearly growth in a county with over 11 percent unemployment cannot be good. But we continue to grow. And even this year at the high school we are looking at growth rather than reductions.

Have a great day

Pat