DR DIEL RETIRES AFTER 23 YEARS

It is easy but also difficult to respond to the question of the "highlights" in my years at Mt. Diablo High School. Writing "finis" to the twenty-three years of service to our school is no easy task. There have been times when I thought it would never come but more often the years have rushed by at a rewarding speed. Much has been accomplished! Seven high schools have sprung from Mt. Diablo - the mother school. Faculty members, students and their parents have come and gone - leaving a flood of memories to be among my most cherished possessions. Perhaps my most memorable impression of these years lies in the relationship I've been permitted to have with our students - the hopes, the disappointments, and the satisfactions. The problems we've settled, the games we've won and lost, the honors we have earned and the graduations we've witnessed. All these memories and more I take with me as I leave Mt. Diablo High School. Possible for me, at this time, the supreme "gratification" after forty years of interrelationship with students, teachers and parents is that I can still feel some of the excitement and pleasure in working with young people that I felt the first day I walked on the campus of Kingsbury High School (as a first-year teacher).