Ours Was The FIRST 9th Grade Freshman Class To Be Convened At Pasadena High School In Pasadena, Texas
In September of 1964, it was still known as Pasadena SENIOR High School and we had four more years to go before we could progress into that next stage of our lives, the
stage at which we firmly believed we would at last begin to be able to determine our own futures and thus become "adults".
Those were four very LONG years, full of different and often questionable experiences that I myself sometimes thought would never come to an end. It was an existence from
which I sought to escape as quickly as possible.
Each one of us dealt with and survived those years as best we could, some better than others. Many of us felt that we were almost entirely alone in our experiences, our
triumphs, our failures and our turmoils. We had our hopes, we had our dreams and we moved toward them along differing pathways that were only partly of our own
choosing. Sometimes that journey was made willingly and other times it was not.
Many of us may have felt that we were alone in plying our way through those tumultuous years of the 1960s. But we really weren't. We shared those years and we shared
those experiences with a host of others and it is to those others that I dedicate those pages.
I do so because what I am today and what I have become in this life has at least partially been the result of the presence and of the influence of those others in my life, no
matter what form that presence or influence may have taken.
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In compiling these particular pages of individual student photos, I have had to rely upon the four editions of The Pasadenian, our "yearbook" or "annual", as shown above.
Those four volumes covered the years 1964 -1965, 1965 - 1966, 1966 - 1967 and 1967 - 1968.
Those yearbooks have not always proven reliable, especially the two older editions, in which typographical errors, incorrect and conflicting data or information and outright
carelessness in content editing have proven to be slightly more than blatant at times. This may, at times, be reflected by errors in the information that I present on the
following pages.
Therefore, if anyone viewing these pages happens to encounter any mistakes of any sort, I would ask that you contact me as soon as possible so that I can quickly make the
needed corrections.
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The pages that may be accessed using the alphabetical buttons below represent a listing of those students who were members of "my class" at one time or another
as I made my way through high school and contain images of over 700 individuals.
Of those who entered the 9th grade at Pasadena Senior High in September 1964, at least 300 did not complete their high school education at that same school for one reason
or another, or were delayed in their completion until after the bulk of the class had graduated.
A percentage of those students were later transferred to Sam Rayburn High School when construction on that unit was completed. They are included because they were,
after all, a part of that first 9th grade freshman class.
Each section of this presentation can be accessed by clicking on one of the letters below.
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FORMATTING NOTES: The former editors of The Pasadenian between 1964 and 1968 were neither consistent nor diligent in their preparation or presentation of
information related to the individual images of students. As a result, there are variances in names and and the spelling of names throughout the four yearbooks
covering our period at Pasadena High School. Such variances are noted in the following pages by being included in parenthesis. Also, senior class (1967 - 1968)
pictures bordered in black indicate that those individuals have since passed on.
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