This is the beginning of the end of 2014 and 60 years since 10th grade (first year) at Wiley High. If we kept a diary, or marked up a monthly calendar, it might have looked like this picture - at least that's what I thought when preparing the reunion book for our 50th reunion.

Marlon Brando and Ronald Reagan movies played at downtown theaters that month and we didn't give it much thought, but most of us preferred Brando. Mr. Sandman was on the radio bom, bom, bom bom, and it sounded like girls singing barbershop.

Over in Illinois there was no speed limit until then and you could buy a season ticket to Wiley basketball games for 3 bucks just rotary dial the athletic department at C(for Crawford) -2191.