A Place To Start

Received an email from Sheila Turing noting the passing of yet another Gateway Regional High School alumni, Dave Bassler.
The name didn’t sound familiar from my graduation class [1969], so off to the yearbook in an attempt to place a face with the name.
David Bassler was in the second graduation class [1970] from Gateway Regional High School.
Sort of makes you wonder if our numbers are dwindling to so few, that compressing the information may be an attempt to conserve resources?

Yearbooks seem to have a knack of triggering many cascading recollections…
Flipping through those pages, looking at the photos, seeing all those youthful expressions, full of promise… Those classmates you admired, for whatever reason… Those who prompted crushes and hormonal rushes at the most awkward of times… and those you remember as being just plain asses!

It also prompted me to search “Gateway Regional High School” on the Internet…
Not certain as to the, “Why” I did the search, but I’m glad that I did!
Wikipedia is probably one of thee best sites I’ve ever stumbled across!
…And there it was, “Gateway Regional High School (New Jersey)”
I read the entire page!
I was surprised to see just four, “Notable Alumni” listed.
An All American Wrestler, Principal Investigator – Mars Science Payload, Academy Award Winning Film Editor and a Poet and Author.

Somehow I thought that there would be more?
I seem to recall a lot of bright [unique] notables back then…

Then I went back to the yearbook and started putting faces with names…
Not satisfied with that, I launched a search on the web by name, where I found their BLOGS.
Have only started reading one of the BLOGS I’ve come across so far, but I am impressed with the similarities, the small town hopes, dreams and aspirations that I recognize at my own core.

So this is where I start.

"I consider myself fortunate… I still have Hope and I still remember how to Dream." Greg Park