I know that many of you have shared stories of your high school years in your profiles. I hope that you would share your story here in the forum. It will get so much more exposure and let others comment on whether they believe you or not! We can have fun with this so I hope you participate.

I think this site is such a great project to keep in touch with the old and the new. My parents moved us 4 kids to the Canyon Rim area in 1958. My Mom wanted all of her four Son's to attend Skyline. Rocky, Rand, Ryan, and Ron.

I don't know why but I turned out to be the wheel that needed the most grease, I remember making friends with John Muir and Doug Norberg at Wasatch Jr. The three of us would sneak up to Skyine from Wasatch during lunch and steal our soda's from the pepsi truck parked out back from the School.

I guess that was our way of breaking in our new high school, but we soon got chased away by the older  students.

I admired the jocks of Skyline and tried out for football the spring going into the 10th grade, I broke my leg and had a cast on for several months and that ended any hope of hanging out  with the the hot shots that seemed to dominate Skyline.

I soon found out that for some reason I wasn't good enough or didn't try hard enough or maybe it was just plain impossible to make the team(s) if you weren't in the "click"

I made up my mind that if I wasn't going to get any invite or wasn't good enough or strong enough that I was going to get myself in shape and not let anyone bully me around.

I found a true friend in Ken Schmidt, somehow I was allowed to take gym, and a second weight lifting class so I got to dress for gym twice in one day.

The only A's I ever got from Skyline came from Coach Schmidt even though he would tell us he would hang us from our left you know what if we didn't work hard.

After I starting developing muscles I really regretted the fact I wasn't on any sport teams at all and really got a bad attittude and that attitude prevented me from participating in so many things that I missed out on..

I had a go easy have fun attititude and school was just a place to let loose and have fun, but I had this sense of tougness that needed to be proved and it also cost me several days of being expelled for fighting when the occassion came along from a bully that came my way.

I have always have been proud of the fact that I graduated from Skyline even though Middleton denied me from going to the graduation Ceremony and personally handed me my diploma during the last day of school. He was  acquainted with me the last three years off and on in  his office after expelling me on a few occassions for fighting.

Since graduation I have often wondered what it would have been like to have gone to a real small school in a real small town like Richfield where my Dad went to School, would I have been the Dave Barton of Richfield????

Dave Barton wrote:

Ryan, thanks for the compliment but I don't deserve it. I was so envious of many students at Skyline that I would have traded places with. I definately had my own insecurities and issues. There were so many 'cool' students that I felt intimidated by and didn't have the courage to even talk to them. I did have a positive experience at Skyline most of the time. Sports was an outlet for troubles at home. I am sure that if we all knew each other more deeply back in 'those days' we would have treated each other with more compassion and respect. Could we have done things differently? Of course we all could have. I know what happened to all of us during high school eventually made us who we became. I am proud to be your friend and as time goes by I feel a deeper concern for all my former classmates. Our commom times from back then are priceless to me. We as classmates are now entering a phase of life that can be most rewarding but also most challenging. Many of us will be dealing with health issues. I just hope that I can deal with what is coming in the, not so far, future. I am sure that with support from friends, fellow classmates and family we can all get through our 'golden years' and endure to the end!