Pacific High School, 1955-58

We always felt smugly sorry for the poor Cardinals, stuck in what we saw as their urban squalor, dated facilities, and arbitrary, confining rules and traditions.

We Pirates, on the other hand, had the luxury of starting afresh. Dr Bailey made it clear that he preferred to treat the student body as responsible people, constrained by an absolute minimum of rules, the canon to be augmented only if and when we abused our freedoms. By and large, I seem to recall that we rose pretty well to the challenge.

My high-school career, like most human episodes, I suppose, was a mixture of triumph and frustration. I’d been blessed with a good measure of the aptitudes that made for success in school. And I was doubly blessed to enroll in this particular high school, at this particular time. Largely because of these blessings, for which I can claim no credit at all, I got to take degrees from three of the world’s finest institutions of higher education and have since prospered well beyond any level that my cleverness or good looks might justify.


I’ve wrestled with ways to present my high-school story, in all its facets. Both as a way of returning thanks and as, to some extent, a cautionary tale of possible usefulness to my children and theirs.

Here’s a link to each of three subchapters:

Academics


Activities


Honors


Each subchapter branches in much the same manner. If your patience and interest extend to the gantseh megilleh, just follow the “Next Page” link at the bottom (or, equivalently, the right-arrow at the top) of each page. Otherwise, thanks to hypertext, it’ll be easy for you to skip over any areas that fascinate me more than they do you.


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