We made many memories during our years at Pasadena High School and some of those memories
were preserved as photographic images and not a few of those memories were preserved
as photographs in the pages of the school yearbook, The Pasadenian.

This section offers a selection of those images (and a few others) pertinent to the Class of 1968.

They may be viewed by clicking on any of the thumbnails below or included on the individual picture
pages.
In presenting these images, there are a few things that I must point out at this point regarding their source.

First, the number of available images pertaining to our specific class escalated from 1964 to 1968, meaning that the earlier the year, the fewer pictures there were that were
specifically about us.

Second, the "quality" of those images improved over the years.  Images from the two earlier yearbooks were markedly poorer than those in the later ones.  Some actually
defied scanning and manipulating and so were unusable.

And third, even though The Pasadenian was a major project, I still think they might have taken a little more care and time to insure that student names were correct.  They
apparently didn't though, in many cases.  So I've tried to correct such as I could.
On many levels, and despite the preparation that two years of junior high was supposed to have given us, I don't think any of us were exactly
"fully prepared" for what high school was about to throw our way.
In saying that I entered my first year at Pasadena High School with a serious mixture of both anticipation and fear, as well as a certain amount of
"nervous awe, I voice that sentiment with the firm conviction that I was not alone in having such feelings.
High school was a "whole different world" to me, an entirely new life style, with new circumstances and situations that I had essentially not
encountered before in my entire previous 8 years of school experience.
And in those first few days, weeks and months of having been immersed in that new environment, I think that about the ONLY thing that kept me
from sinking into complete despair was the thought that
There Were Only Four More Years To Go!
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!! ONLY THREE MORE YEARS TO GO !!
We more-or-less knew the routine by now and we were no longer "newbies" as they call them now.
We'd fairly well learned the ropes and survived long enough to make the transition from having been "freshmen" into veteran "sophomores.
Now, we began to feel that we had our courses set and could start to see our futures.
Or at least we thought we could.

But still, three more years seemed like a hell of a long time to go way back then!
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!! ONLY TWO MORE YEARS TO GO !!
Finally, we were getting to be "old pros" at the high school business.  We had become immersed in the system, and a part of the community.
Well, at least for SOME of us that was the way it was.

We were definitely beginning to mark time now, and our anticipations, our hopes and our dreams were at last beginning to seem as if they might
just be within our reach.

I sometimes wonder though, just how many of those hopes and dreams were ever actually achieved, or just how many disappointments might
have reached out and taken us over.
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!! SENIORS AT LAST !!
The long awaited, final year of school.  For some it was to be the final step before MORE schooling.  For others though, college wasn't in the future.

Still, for those who made it through to graduation, there was a sense of accomplishment and a bit of pride in the fact that we'd taken and put up
with everything that had been thrown at us for the past twelve years.  I think it was as much a sense of "survival" as it was anything else.

In 1968 though, regardless of whether we left PHS by graduating, or simply "giving up", we faced an enormous dragon called "LIFE".
We each met that dragon in our own way.  Some survived that encounter.  Others didn't.  Yet we each met and tried to mold the future with what
we had at hand.
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