While growing up in Schenectady, NY, I attended Mont Pleasant High School. Uniquely, it offered a technical program sponsored by General Electric, the major employer in the area at the time. This track was designed to prepare students for careers in engineering and is the reason my parents enrolled me here. The school opened in 1931 as one of Schenectady’s two high schools. In 1992, the other high school, Linton High, merged with Mont Pleasant with Linton becoming Schenectady High and Mont Pleasant a middle school. My brother Mark, sister Alissa, and I attended Mont Pleasant while my sister Mayela, attended cross-town rival, Linton. Tomorrow, I am looking forward to a reunion of the Class of 1976.