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Just under 700 in my graduating class.

The class has a website that tracks -- or tries to -- each person. Only a little over half are accounted for. Of those, several have passed away. Their obits on the site reveal some surprising turns their lives took from who they were in school.

One of the least religious and most irreverent guys became an Eastern Orthodox priest and then a bishop. A bright, rebellious guy who opposed war and introduced me to the music of Pete Seeger and the Guthries wanted to major in music. He left college after one semester, was drafted to Vietnam, then went to veterinary school. He had a vet practice in CA and developed a new veterinary med.

Three women that I went to school with from K-12 and who are all still alive became exactly what they said they wanted to be -- a nurse, a teacher, and a doctor.