The Cleveland Elementary School Shooting and the Persistance of Memory

[Jack Rabbit]

5. I live in Davis now.

We moved out of Stockton when I was 15, just before I would have started Stagg Hi. For those not familiar with Stockton, Stagg High School was named for a famous football coach contemporary with Knute Rockne. Amos Alonzo Stagg coached the College (now University) of the Pacific team sometime after World War II. While coaching at the University of Chicago, he made major changes to the punt, including moving the punter back two steps; this is the punt as we know it. Stagg died in a nursing home a few blocks from my house at the age of 102. I remember the town's observations of his 100th birthday.

The last school I attended in Stockton was Daniel Webster Jr. High, from 1964-1967. I think it's a magnet school now. It's located on Michigan Avenue. There was no freeway nearby at the time. The El Dorado School, where I went to grade school after moving out of Grover Cleveland's district, is now the adult education center at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Harding Way.