Larry James

OHS gave me a really good education, and what a nice location near the mountains and ski slopes and desert.
Some special teachers, some special friends ( one lost after Viet war.). Memories generally good, a lot of thanks to many. Got started into some interesting directions... Sorry not to have kept in better touch with more OHS and OJHS folk after leaving the Valley (I did come back once, for about a year, and have always come back to the Valley, almost yearly.
A few things learned have stood alone ever since... Spanish has been more useful than most of the grad school math and physics, and is still fun.

Four years of undergraduate at Stanford...finally got out of trying to be an electrical engineer (inspired by Hill Field electronic surplus access by the radio club, and building things to transmit mysterious waves afar. Been a field and mineral industry geologist ever since my conversion in early l965. My folks and a Uni job paid the bills...all of $l0k total for 4 yrs! I dropped out of ROTC there, before signing a contract, because of all the courses to make up... about the time L B J dropped the message he needed every able male body in Asia. Ended up in graduate school at Penn State for 4 more years, and doing a thesis in eastern Nevada. A summer in WA-D.C. was good, but, a summer teaching labs on campus was the best.