Steve Rousso

I went to UCSB with hopes of playing basketball, but wasn't good enough. Transferred to UCLA, where I really wasn't good enough. Graduated in 1966. Went to Navy Officers School in 1968 and spent a year on the rivers of Viet Nam on an LST built in 1944. Then, got the good duty in Pearl Harbor, HI, where I met my wife, Marilyn, in 1969. We married in 1971 and had our daughter, Dana, in 1972. We came back to LA in 1972 and, wisely, it turns out, bought our house in Valley Village. We're still there, but spend lots of time in our favorite spot, Avalon, Catalina Island. I'm a CPA in Sherman Oaks and, since I haven't figured out the next stage, will probably keep doing taxes and accounting until it's no longer fun. For stimulation, I play lots of bridge.

I went to three different high schools. I started at Fairfax in Los Angeles, which I hated. Then, after moving to the Valley in late 1959 spent a year at Reseda. Finally, went to #3, Taft, when it opened. My life centered on the basketball court and the players are the ones I best remember - Tony Oddo, Dave Phillips, Al Bennett, John Scherer, Mike Movius, Steve Krohn, Rick Pecel and Scott Dunlap.
I also was a high jumper and got "drafted" for the relay team. They had to have been desperate. Memories there center on the speedy Mike Hallinan and Curt Hessler.
Good times were had with Pat and Mike Hallinan, girlfriends Wendy Davidson and Pam Martin.
Life was so much simpler - lunch on the Quad, double dates, who to take to the Prom. Seems like yesterday.