Bruce... Friday, July 31, 2009 5:06 PM

I'd love to contact Nadene and/or Bonnie, but I don't recognize the other names.
I was only there for 10th and 11th grade... and I don't recall if you were in my
class or one ahead (with Mike and Neal). I remember when Bonnie broke up with
Mike and he was upset enough to break his hand punching a stone wall (but he
came up with a cover story and I don't think she knew it).

Folks I remember... Brian Joinson, Richard Hardee, Billy Wimbish, Freddy Janer,
Alex Rostran, Carole Case (went for a while with another Freddy... Barrios)?

Carole left Managua before me and moved to El Paso... we stayed in touch and started
at U of Texas together and she later married my best friend (and divorced a few years
later).

Other names that come to mind... Mike Green, John Wickersham, Gary Marquis,
David and Lenna Wilson - David was my age, Lenna a couple years younger,
Jon and Swen (came down for the summers)... Lola Schmidt, who invited me to the Senior
Prom when I was a junior - let's see, Sandra Viquez, and who was the girl who always
danced the Mashed Potato with Brian Joinson? I can picture her hairdo... there was
a party at the Hardee's one time when EVERYBODY got thrown in the pool before it was
over. As an aside, I remember one party at your house when your Dad was a bit tipsy
and he was playfully pushing the snack mix on me and Mike Murray - "Eat some
goddamned Cheerios!"... our crappy baseball team and quite good basketball team
(undefeated!)... iguanas scampering around in the attic -

The U.S. Army mission driver, a Nicaraguan gentleman named Julio, took me, Kathy,
Carole and Carter Case, Mike Murray, and our English teacher Mrs. Rozinsky to school
every day. One time Carole got pissed at me and threw my algebra book out the car
window onto the Managua highway and I had to say, "Julio, mi libro esta in la calle!"
He was not pleased.

Whoa, my brain is starting to ache. I haven't used some of those cells in a long
time.