As we began our Senior year it was without a doubt the best school year for me. The previous three years had all led up to this and we were going to make the best year in high school.
Football season was incredible, suffering only one loss to King City 13-0. Defeating Carmel 41-14 at Carmel to keep the shoe for two years in a row. The rally bus ride to away games.The rally for the King City game had Bob Berg, Roger Parks and I dressed up like King City cheerleaders riding in on a Ford Mustang and being drenched by the Breaker wave and embarrassing Dennis Rockwell at the mircophone. Remember the small boxes of Sugar Crisps we took to the Carmel game, it gave the varsity extra powers.
I remember all the Rec Club dances that year. It was so much fun having live bands to dance and listen to.
Basketball season was incredible for me, playing ball with the guys I had played with on Lightweight basketball. We were on varsity now. It was a great year.
The Winter Ball dance in the Multi-Purpose building.
The Senior activities; Bolado Park in Hollister and the chicken fights in the pool. The Senior Prom once again in the gymnasium, dinner ay Neil DeVaughns on Cannery Row. Senior yearbook signing at Doc Rickettes place on Cannery Row.
Graduation on the football field and who could forget our Senior song, “The Days they are a Changing” by Bob Dylan.
The All-Night party starting at the Outrigger for dinner and dancing, a movie at the Steinbeck Theater and bowling at Cypress Bowl in Monterey and getting home after sunrise.
These four years have a very lasting memory for me, friends and classmates, some have already left us much too early. Some of us were together from elementary school to graduation from high school.
I will always have the fond memories of those times and growing up in Pacific Grove. We all have a link between us that can never be broken. One common ground and experience that forever ties us together.
Did you have experiences in Pacific Grove you would like to share?
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