Gary Eaves

I dropped out of school and got married, stayed that way until 1995 then divorced. Found the love of my life who was a Seal Beach kid named Tina Hazlett and married her. We 've been together ever since. Had a wild career including being a cop in Compton Ca., owned a store called Woodstock in Seal Beach for a few years and am now a Private Investigator living in Derby Kansas.

As some of you might remember, I competed in Judo for most of my young life winning numerous state and national titles. I made a comeback in 2006 winning the Oklahoma and Kansas Judo championships but decided to hang i up after that. Bodies in their mid to late 40's dont stand up well to that kind of abuse (LOL).

I currently contract with the state public defender's office as well as 12 private law firms. Having a blast living in Kansas but I still miss the ocean.

Taking Mr. Whipple's auto shop class in the afternoon because he would fall asleep in his office and we would bail out to Seacliff Village and hang out smoking cigarettes and telling lies to each other!

Cutting up in Ace Ericson's media class who took himself way too seriously! When "Roots" came out one of the guys in class sketched a picture of his assistant (Mr. Coker) on the chalk board with his huge 70's afro and entitled it " Coker Kinte". He went bloody ballistic!

Hiding from Frank the school narc when I was ditching class!

Being late to Mr. Bernal's class because I was surfing at the Cliffs. I recall it was about 15 mins until class started so I paddle like crazy to get in and get to the parking lot. As I was running up the beach to the lot, I look ahead of me to an older guy who was also running like hell to the lot! When I caught up to him, I saw it was Mr. Bernal who was also running late to class! His sheepish grin when he saw me still makes me laugh to this day!

Steve Puhich, Mike Melo, Rick Denton, Randy Hepner just to name a few.