Words of wisdom: PVHS class of 1968 looks back 50 years
Recording it for posterity. Sally Burgin Margolis. PhotoA letter to our younger selves 50 years on: Palos Verdes High School’s Class of 1968 reflects and looks forward By the early summer of 1968, pop music was at its peak, social unrest was beginning to brew across the country, and baby boomers were booming and blooming. Released into this era of the tumultuous but also the sublime, a large contingent of young people graduated from Palos Verdes High School. Like newly-hatched turtles rushing towards the safety of the shoreline, some of them were picked off by the seagulls of fate or, once in the water, gobbled up by the sharks of misfortune. The rest of them have been swimming for half a century, and in mid-October of this year gathered to party like it was, well, 1999. And that’s what this story’s about: Still kicking, still swimming, the graduates of 1968, now 68 themselves, gathered for their 50th high school reunion. Well, not all of them, of course. Of the 475 seniors (now officially seniors!) who swarmed out of the starting gate, many have since moved far away and could not attend. Some did not want to attend. Those who have died may or may not have been there in spirit…
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