1963-64 – Sophomore – Memoir Conrtinued

Guy started his freshman year as I started my sophomore. We were both in the first period orchestra rehearsal first violin section. I sat 3rd chair violin, and he sat 5th, with Ellen Zahoric sitting 4h, right next to me, sharing a music stand. She was the city prosecutor’s daughter and quite cute too. The mayor’s daughter, who was in my graduating class, Peggy Mathna, sat second chair. Some senior, whose name I don’t remember, sat first and was gone my junior year.

Rosalin had graduated and was no longer in the orchestra, so my crush-life was pretty much non-existent that year. No, that’s not quite true, that’s the year I met Charlotte Brown and her sister Martha. Charlotte was a sophomore, too, and Martha was a freshman. I may have to write a whole chapter about these girls and my friendship with them… unfortunately, strictly platonic; they both had boyfriends and viewed me more as a confidant and entertainment; I used to play guitar and sing folk songs for them and their parents, who seemed to like me a lot. I was friends with Marty’s boyfriend, Merle DeMarco, Tiny, to his friends. She would always want to talk about, hear about Tiny, and he would always want to know what she had to say about him… blah, blah, blah…

I also had a light crush on my homeroom teacher, Miss Super. Bruce Livingston (who became one of my closest friends in high school and died in Viet Nam the year after we graduated) and I always joked with her and asked her out at least once a week for almost the entire four years. She used to just smirk at us through a sideways glance. We never could get her to even say she’d think about it.

To be Continued

–LE