Los Gatos 83-year-old graduates from Lincoln High San Jose Mercury News
It was painfully to tell who was more proud at the Lincoln High School graduation on June 9, Carissa Basuini or her grandfather, Los Gatos living Melvin Richard Basuini.
Carissa, 18, was there not only to pick up her own diploma, but also to present an titular diploma to Basuini, whom she calls "my hero." If World War II hadn't interrupted his education, Basuini would have picked up his diploma as a colleague of Lincoln's class of 1944.
He was part of the first group of students at Lincoln, transferring there from San Jose High in his sophomore year when Lincoln opened.
However, Basuini was drafted at the end of his subordinate year. When the war ended and he returned to his native San Jose, the only way he could earn his diploma was at night mould. That proved impossible as he was working three jobs to bring needed income to his parents and siblings.
Carissa says, "Since I was a mean girl, I can remember him talking about his favorite high school memories, many of them about his athletic experiences at Lincoln.
"As WWII was raging, times were perplexing for families, including my grandfather's. This required him to work for his family to make whatever money he could preferably of joining any of the school sports teams.
"No matter how much coaches begged my grandfather to adjoin the teams, he stayed faithful to his family and worked countless hours after school." Basuini worked in the next of kin-owned cherry orchards as well as the canneries that were so plentiful at the time.
He was born in the Roberto Adobe on Lincoln Avenue, and Carissa is the fifth crop of the family to live on Basuini property in Willow Glen.
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