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Paperback Old Bears: The Class of 1956 Reaches Its Fiftieth Renunion, Reflecting on the Happy Days and the Unhappy Days Book

ISBN: 1556437110

ISBN13: 9781556437113

Old Bears: The Class of 1956 Reaches Its Fiftieth Renunion, Reflecting on the Happy Days and the Unhappy Days

Feeling a bit guilty about his own high-school experience, author Dave Newhouse searched out classmates from his graduating class, the class of 1956 at Menlo-Atherton High School, to find out what happened to them since high school. The stories run the gamut-some are tragic (three people have died since being interviewed), some classmates were strangers to the author, and some he thought he knew turned out to be strangers, as new information was revealed about their lives. The pom-pom girl he spoke to about breast cancer had been institutionalized. The class clown was terribly abused by his parents. The hot-rod guy was the nephew of the man who invented television. The class geek was Jim Henson's first hire on The Muppets. A budding activist worked for, and wrote a book about, farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez. The senior ball queen's son hasn't been right since getting home from Iraq. But Old Bears is also about the 1950s, a misunderstood decade of conformity that was anything but-an era that brought us the popularity of television, civil rights, the space program, rock 'n' roll, the Salk polio vaccine, Queen Elizabeth, Elvis, and, of course, McDonald's. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Customer Reviews

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Rated 4 stars
Wonderful Read

Although I know no one written about in the book other than the author, I "saw" people I knew in each of the chapters. Each person's memoir is full of insight into all of us as we were "back then." The choices people made and the reasons for which they were made seem to be universal. The angst we all endured as teenagers was shared by all. Old Bears: The Class of 1956 Reaches its Fiftieth Reunion, Reflecting on the Happy...

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