Love the Independant, but your article “Past Times at Santa Barbara High” missed a big one. Tom Curren of Santa Barbara High School won three World Surfing Championships in the 1980s/1990s and is one of the most famous and stylistic surfers in history. He grew up here along with his dad, Pat Curren, who was a great guy and famous big wave rider on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawai’i.
