Seniors at Last
Bev and I became seniors after the summer of '72 and attended quite a few activities like the
Cardinal Carnival and the Senior Dinner. Our
first outing away on our own was a weekend ski trip to
Squaw Valley in December. That would later be overshadowed by a plane trip to
Disneyland
in June, right before graduation.
We were partnered in Mr. Jow's Civics II class, "Asian American Experience",
and collaborated on a short story with the contributions from two other
classmates in Ms. Toal's "Creative Writing" English class.
Imagine writing a story based on just a few known facts about the main
character.
The fact is that we were so in tuned with each other, that I nearly forgot to ask
her to the prom, assuming she had already committed herself to me. I remember that I had an adversary back then who
would have liked nothing better than to separate me from Bev.
Fortunately I was a little wiser and a little quicker, and I had the opportunity to ask
first.