Guys

October, 1985

The coolest guy in my high school was Calvin Hamrick. Not that I ever spoke so much as a word to him; I was a freshman when he was a senior, and none of us 14-year-olds would have dared approach him. Hamrick was a letterman in football, basketball and baseball; he was a sandy-haired, firm-jawed fellow who strode the hallways with absolute self-confidence and total grace. Calvin Hamrick may have merely been on his way from study hall to algebra class, but he made it seem like the most dramatic of...