Mark Whitman

Living, loving,losing weight, gaining weight,living all over California (but mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area) for over 18 years, painting, acting (stage only), set designing,directing (one Shakespeare festival),concertgoing,volunteering, gambling,playing volleyball nude (that ought to blow all your socks off!), visiting Canada

MHS was largely a good experience, though we were all (of course) so embryonic - thank God for great teachers who helped mold & shape us (some of my faves:"Mama" Joan Murray, Nancy Poteete, "Skip" Klingman,Ray
Wise,Barbara Staggs,Janice Lowrance,Mrs.Lunn,so tough but fair)! I have perhaps my fondest memories of all the theatre & music stuff: the competetive drama/forensics trips, the plays & musicals; the fun (and the squabbling) w. my old duet partners, Cathy McGill & Dee Paxton; the camaraderie w. our fellow students across the river in Ft. Gibson (shout out to Melanie Naff, still in the industry in L.A. - she's been in several Danny Devito pics, soaps, & radio shows - and hit the jackpot w. hubby Scott & son Charlie!);my wonderful grandparents/greatgrandparents who were alive then (one is still kicking up the dust - she was a 'belle of the ball' on the Senior Dance Circuit!)& loved attending all our school stuff; the Youth for Understanding/American Field Service exchange student parties and dances...far too many to list (I've done a fairly daunting job so far, though, haven't I?!?)