17: The Annual Staff Fiascio

Continuing the tale, I finally made it to High School. It is amazing how time creeps by when you are young and how it flies when you are old, sort of getting nowhere fast, but back to the tale. By this time I was an internationally known photojournalist (my opinion) it seemed that becoming an official annual staff photographer was a given. Someone once told me “that Man proposes and GOD disposes” seem there was a problem. The issue was to be on the annual staff one must maintain a certain GPA (Grade Point Average), OOPS. I seem to recall I graduated 295th academically out of a class of 296 or something around there. Well to make a long story short I became an unofficial photographer for the annual staff. This was not all that bad, as I had more interest in photography than in the opposite sex, so I got plenty of opportunities to shoot, especially after normal school hours. This began my first experience with a real PRESS CAMERA a 4x5 graphic and it was huge and heavy.