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Gail and I became friends while attending Stanford Jr. High. She was bright, friendly, and an early outspoken advocate for Hispanic heritage. She was proud to be an independent thinker, always ready to challenge the status quo. We remained close friends through high school, and shared many classes. I lost connection after high school, but  know she graduated from Occidental College and enjoyed a successful career in supporting academic opportunities for minority students at the junior college level in Los Angeles. 

She will be missed by all that knew her. 

Posted on: Aug 07, 2024 at 7:23 PM

Yay David!!!! Hope to see you soon!

I was in the Cub Scouts with Vincent.  His mother was our Den Mother, and our meetings were always at his house.  I lost touch with Vincent after our elementary school year's, however.  R.I.P. Vincent!  GW

Dennis had a sense of humor like Don Rickles.  He was a very funny guy.  Dennis played the tenor drum in the marching band at Millikan and also with the Long Beach Jr. Concert Band.  We both played in the Rose Parade during our senior year.  He transferred to LBCC and played tenor drum with me again in the marching band. Dennis was involved in a tragic car accident in 1970 which killed one of the LBCC pepsters that was a passenger with him in the car.  It was unbelieveably vey tragic and sad as the driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol.  And to add insult to injury, the driver of the other car was the father of another pepster at LBCC.  Just heartbreaking to say the least.  Dennis was never really the same after that accident.  He visited me on Catalina Island in the late 1970's where I was living and working at the time, and he was a shell of his former self.  R.I.P.  Dennis!  GW

My mother was friends with Jim's mother.  I did not go to elementary school with him.  And unfortunately I remember a tragic incident when his sister was hit and killed by a car on Los Coyotes Diagonal not far from Wardlow Road.  I think I was atteding Marshall Junior High at the time.  Very shocking and sad.  I lost touch after junior high.  R.I.P.  Jim.  GW

I went to Cubberly Elementary school with Mickey.  Lost touch after that, however.  As a young kid I remember he had a really good sense of humor.  Mickey resembled a classic 1950's clean cut American young boy WASP appearance, almost worthy of a Norman Rockwell painting.  R.I.P. Mickey.  GW