We weren’t quite up to this level… but it did inspire us.
Gee whiz, no entries yet today! No shared memories. So let me share one of my own, here, and see if it gives you any ideas. Please remember, this contest is open to everyone. First-timers welcome!
Back in high school, in the 1960s, some of us got together and published our own science fiction magazine, The Diomegan.
Two or three of our staff were , in my opinion, geniuses. One built his own computer–in 1966! Another cleaned up on both College Bowl and It’s Academic. I would love to get in touch with them again. I’ll bet they wound up millionaires.
It was all original material, even the art work, with short stories, articles on science and technology, and a serialized novel by yours truly. We went to science fiction conventions in New York, and met Arthur C. Clarke–wow! Very heady stuff for a bunch of Jersey teens.
William, Jeff, and Marian–how are you guys? I’m missing you today.
And now let’s have some readers’ memories.
In high school, the gang I hung around with would go to the Colorado River to swim and water ski at Easter break, and in the summer, it was to the Pacific Ocean at 15th Street, New Port Beach where the best waves were for body surfing. One of our tribe went on to be a body surfing champ and had his picture on the front page of surfing magazines.