I had a good time in college. I was too smart for high school. The classes had been boring. My lack of interest resulted in some very poor grades. That rebellious attitude denied me the opportunity to attend UCLA. Instead I attended a community college for two years and finished my college education at California State University Northridge. I graduated in January 1962. The university actually had the name San Fernando Valley State College then.
This past fall I was invited to a reunion of those early graduating classes (1958 to 1963). The event was this past fall and was attended by about 200 people. It was a low number considering those years saw a graduation rate of almost 1,000 people each year. Despite that fact it was a wonderful event. There was an inside presentation with music and photos of the old campus followed by a luncheon on a lawn. The original bungalows that housed the school’s first classes in 1958 have been replaced with new buildings along with those that were rebuilt after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
There was no one I recognized at the event but my wife and I had a wonderful time talking to total strangers. She talks to strangers in the check out line in the supermarket but that’s another story.
The picture above is the cover of the alumni magazine and it is slightly is distorted to fit the web site as is a picture of me on a campus tour.
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