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Do you know of any noteworthy accomplishments of '71 grads? Maybe yourself? Send us the story or send the url, and we'll put it on this website. Go ahead! Be a narcissist! Post your story here! Montgomery has hovered around 1800 students for the past ten years or so, but the District has projected a drop to 1750 next year. Our International Baccalaureate program continues to grow and draw students from outside districts so we are hoping to hold our enrollment for next year. The recent drop in enrollment at Slater Middle School will surely have an effect, however. The Viking sports programs are as strong or stronger than ever in Montgomery’s storied history. This year may be the greatest overall in the school’s 46 years for girls and boys athletics. These teams have also proven that good athletes can be good students, as eight teams from the fall and winter sports have received Scholar Athlete banners from the North Coast Section. Several teams will receive scholar awards from CIF at the state level. That is a strong athletic program. |
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our senior year
Richard Nixon was the President. The Rolling Stones were topping the charts with “Brown Sugar”. Hot Pants were definitely in. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison died in our senior year.  Dean's List - recognize anyone?
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon Resuscitates the Dream a new documentary by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, 09.14.2006 In 1971, Lennon released "Imagine," a powerful plea for idealism so gentle, most people forget how explosively radical it is. Among other concepts, John sang "Imagine no possessions" and "Imagine no religion." These are sentiments that, made manifest, would instantly rid the world of most of its problems. |
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 Clint Eastwood looked a little younger in 1971, too.
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By RANDY ROSSMAN THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Two lifelong Sonoma County residents, one the owner of a nationally known Santa Rosa engineering firm and the other the owner of a family carpentry company and a pilot, died while on a Jeep ride in Cazadero. Don Charles of Forestville and Leslie Meline of Santa Rosa apparently died Sunday but the wreckage was not found until Tuesday evening. Charles, 53, owned DH Charles Engineering, with offices in Santa Rosa and San Diego. The company builds temporary structures and support equipment for contractors and has completed more than 8,000 projects in eight years, including current scaffolds on the Golden Gate Bridge and work on the Bay Bridge retrofit, said partner Jasper Calcara. Meline, also 53, was an avid pilot and flew privately, commercially and was instrument-rated, said her son, Gabe Meline. She also helped run the family finish carpentry company. The two had known each other since elementary school and had been in touch recently while helping plan a Montgomery High School reunion for the class of 1971. Sunday, Meline was invited by Charles to see his family’s Cazadero ranch. The accident occurred as the two were on a Jeep ride, the CHP said. Charles was driving up a steep, unimproved dirt roadway on his family’s remote property, about three miles north of Bohan Dillon Road, the CHP said. The Jeep, which was in 2-wheel drive at the time, apparently lost traction and slid backward. The Jeep left the road and plunged down the hill about 500 feet before stopping. The two died in the crash. Family members filed missing persons reports early in the week. They also began combing the area and found them in the wreckage Tuesday evening. |
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May, 2010 Facebook Privacy Warning
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Poor writing in some respects: run on sentences, too many commas, no paragraphs. But interesting, insightful and appropriate? The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq "Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies. They could play, dance, love, and multiply their pleasures. They could leave a party, in the early hours of the morning, in the company of sexual partners they had chosen, and contemplate the dreary line of employees going to work. They were the salt of the earth, and everything was given to them, everything was permitted for them, everything was possible. Later on, having started a family, having entered the adult world, they would be introduced to worry, work, responsibility, and the difficulties of existence; they would have to pay taxes, submit themselves to administrative formalities while ceaselessly bearing witness--powerless and shame-filled--to the irreversible degradation of their own bodies, which would be slow at first, then increasingly rapid; above all, they would have to look after children, mortal enemies, in their own homes, they would have to pamper them, feed them, worry about their illnesses, provide the means for their education and their pleasure, and unlike in the world of animals, this would last not just for a season, they would remain slaves of their offspring always, the time of joy was well and truly over for them, they would have to continue to suffer until the end, in pain and with increasing health problems, until they were no longer good for anything and were definitively thrown into the rubbish heap, cumbersome and useless. In return, their children would not be at all grateful, on the contrary their efforts, however strenuous, would never be considered enough, they would, until the bitter end, be considered guilty because of the simple fact of being parents. From this sad life, marked by shame, all joy would be pitilessly banished. When they wanted to draw near to young people's bodies, they would be chased away, rejected, ridiculed, insulted, and, more and more often nowadays, imprisoned. The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer. This was the true meaning of solidarity between generations; it was a pure and simple holocaust of each generation in favor of the one that replaced it, a cruel, prolonged holocaust that brought with it no consolation, no comfort, nor any material or emotional compensation." |
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Explorer, Eco-Warrior, Spy: The Battles of Jacques Cousteau by Christopher Dickey, Jul. 04, 2017 One of the world’s great adventurers—and a Resistance spy—Jacques Cousteau warned me 25 years ago that humans were reaching the point of no return on environmental destruction. |
