Decatur High 1962

Welcome Classmates to our unofficial web site. We hope you enjoy this site and it brings back some of those wonderful memories when we were teenagers,
We hope this site also helps our sense of community with a group of men and women who shared a unique time in the history of Decatur.

Anybody remember those steamy nights at the 5 Mile Drive-In watching “Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean, or did you see it at the Cozy Theater?
How about tooling Main Street, circling around by the old park bandstand then back again? On those slow nights did you see what was going on in a neighboring “berg” like Dog-Patch?

Do you recall Elvis and his first Ed Sullivan show? Our parents were terrified he was going to be the downfall of us all. Remember bobby soxs, poodle skirts, rock’n roll, soda fountains, and no color TV’s.
We watched commercial jetlines make maiden flights while we took a locomotive to Washington, D.C. For our senior trip. We listened to Ray Steven’s “Ahab theArab” and watched the night sky in October 1957 for Sputnik.
That was such a fun and carefree time. Now many of us are grandparents in an age of instant communications.

Rick Dine
9070 Winterberry Drive Phone 616 786 4750
West Olive, Mi 49460 email: rickdine@sbcglobal.net