I went to HS With Rex Fowler...

[gitano]

and knew him well. We were both graduated in '69.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/22361297/detail.html?taf=den

He was the Associated Student Body vice president. I was in two school plays he was in and we were good friends. I hadn't seen him since HS graduation, but we chatted occasionally on Classmates.com.

Oy!

Paul

[gitano]

In this picture Rex is on the left and I am the one on the podium next to the blonde.

Hard to imagine.

Paul

[recoil junky]

Oy!

Paul

Wow. You think you know somebody and they pull a crazy stunt like that.

I haven't seen he Denver News for a couple days so I missed that.

In regards to the high school photo, you were a skinny kid onct jus' like me!!! (only you was shorter)

RJ

[Alboy]

At least the blond saved the picture

[gitano]

At least the blond saved the picture

You have no idea...

Paul

[recoil junky]

you have no idea...

Paul

lmbo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rj

[gitano]

Now that I think about it, it's an interesting bunch in that picture.

Besides Rex and me, the girl on the far right is Cathy Cook. Can't tell it in the B&W picture, but she was a genuine red-head. (I've always been attracted to red-heads.) I dated her for a while early in our senior year. Her dad was part owner of Harrah's in Las Vegas. He bought her a brand spanking new '69 Firebird at the start of the year. I used to cut class A LOT, and I would tell Cathy I was gonna take her car and I'd be back when school was out to pick her up.

The girl between Cathy and me is Tammy Bonnell, a foreign exchange student from South Africa. She was staying with the Crozier family. One Sunday after church, up here in Wasilla, I was over at some folks' house and we were chatting when I asked where he graduated from HS. He said "Fountain Valley". I said, "That's interesting. I graduated from FVHS", and asked "When did you graduate?". He said '74 as I recall. Then it hit me, his last name was Crozier. I asked him if he had a sister named Cindy, and if his family had sponsored a foreighn exchange student named Tammy Bonnell?" He said, "Yes and yes". I about fell on the floor. Also turned out his sister married my best friend's brother. I had actually been over at his house in FV several times to visit with Tammy. What are the odds that two people that graduated from a HS in Southern California would end up in the same small town in Alaska some 30 years later?

Now to "the blonde". That's MISS Kathleen Dunne - drama and English teacher. Every male in the school (and I mean EVERY male), had the hots for Miss Dunne. Me included. I got to know her when I took a drama class from her, and then later she directed one of the plays I was in. I called her "Big "D" ". We were as good a friends as is appropriate for a female HS teacher to be with a male student. She was really good lookin'.

I haven't heard from Cathy since graduation, but I spoke with Tammy within the last six months. She still stays in touch with the Croziers. Rex was doing pretty good 'til this "murder thing" happened. "A long, strange trip it's been."

Paul

[sakorick]

I went to flight school with DB Cooper. He's the dude that hijacked a 727 and bailed out over the Snake River with the loot. I didn't know him as he was in another platoon. There are many Rex's and DB's floating about. Regards, Rick.

[gitano]

He's the dude that hijacked a 727 and bailed out over the Snake River with the loot.

And neither he nor the loot has ever been found...

Paul

[sakorick]

Actually, they found instructions on opening the rear stair door and some 5-6K in twenties that were badly deteriorated some years after. DB died and was consumed by the elements.....A friend of mine knew him and told me that he was a braggart and talked when drinking....which he did constantly.  Regards, Rick.