63-64, 64-65, 65-66 and was the Capitan of the Student organizers when my large suburban high school put on a state wide invitational tournament.
My debate partner and I are still best friends but live far apart. We get together for family events and fun experiences. We have been best friends since 1960, sixty years.
In college another buddy of mine placed and then won National Speaker and Team awards over a three year period and went on to tour in The English Speaking Debate tournament in Oxford. He garnered a full scholarship offer from Stanford for a Masters but turned it down to be a DJ in Amsterdam and smoke weed.
I’m 22 years behind you and you are smack dab between my parents. My partner, whom I’ve lost track of, went on to do extremely well in university. I thought of debating in university as well, but decided to get out in three years instead. Probably not a desirable thing in 1966. Dad has some good stories about dodging his draft board, and ended up squeaking into OCS just before they got him and serving in the riverine, albeit on big rivers rather than small ones.
Did you end up serving?