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All students have NOT been identified, it’s impossible after so many years. No, it isn't impossible. Don't they have class reunions? Their 50th class reunion would have been two years ago and I'm sure more than a few brought along their pictures. Someone, a class officer perhaps, would probably have copies of pictures as they were back in the day and today. They many have sent out a then/now newsletter. Here, at least once a month, there's an old school picture published in the town's newspaper asking for help in ID-ing classmates. You'd be surprised at how the older folks look forward to those. Best thing to do would be to ask an old timer of Mercer Island. There's probably more than one nursing home resident willing to talk.

Probably not. One thing that has happened is that the Mercer kids get in to good schools--they get good grades which are believed by the Eastern Schools; they get taught the SAT; so they are a magnet district--in turn real estate on the island performs better because anyone with kids they want to send to a public school starts with Mercer at the top of their list--the kids get through school and through High School and on to college; the parents sell their house and buy a condo downtown.

If it can be said that there is a community on the island, it revolves around the school; and when your kids are out of the school you are out of the community.

I would guess that of the players here, only Susan Blake is still on the island (or was a couple of years ago when she was a member of the town council).

The in groups in various classes still have relationships but they don't live on the island any more and the focus is on the group of people rather than where they live.

And the class of 1960 graduated fifty-two years ago; Vietnam intervened; many members of the class are dead. I would guess that less than half the class survives to this point although that is just a guess.

People who are 70-72 years old tend not to be as aggressive or have as strong memory convictions as they had twenty or thirty years ago.

And we are talking about Stanley who didn't arrive at the Mercer Island school until her sophomore or Junior year in high school; and may have only been there for a year or so. She was not a prominent member of the class. Her father was a furniture salesman and in the stratified social structure on the island, she did not rate with the prominent class members.