Excerpt from Brent's Diary / November 1989: Why is Terry Happy?

No idea. But he was, at least in the drawing anyway. Kirtis and I went to Rancho junior high school together and that is where we met back in 7th grade. Every morning a bus would arrive from the El Toro marine base bringing kids to Rancho middle school in Irvine. The kids that got off that bus from El Toro were called 'the base kids' by the rest of the kids who lived in Irvine. The base kids seemed a little tougher and louder than the rest of us. Terry was a base kid. He wore striped t-shirts and jeans a lot and he seemed much older like a high-school kid and he was taller than everyone. I remember playing basketball with him or against him and his body...it was just bigger than anyone else and when he'd go up for lay-ups he would make this like....ahhhhgggg type sound like it was hard or something. The base kids normally stuck together and didn't mingle too much with the Irvine kids so i didn't really know Terry but he never seemed threatening to me. Kirtis drew a picture of him once(we drew a lot of pictures of different stuff at Rancho especially in Mr. Schram's spanish class)of just his face and he is smiling. Above his head it's written, 'Terry Happy'. Maybe that's how Kirtis saw him. Who knows but Terry is in my head now and i can't get him and his striped aaahhhgggg t-shirt out??