His grades fell in high school and his teachers complained of his obnoxious, disruptive behavior. He attended Dorsey High School where he graduated in 1958. .
The last core member of the Beach Boys was Al Jardine. Alan Charles Jardine was born on September 3, 1942 in Lima, Ohio to parents Charles Jardine and Virginia Louise Loxley. The Jardines lived just outside of Lima on Rural Route #5. As a child, Alan's grandfather taught him how to play the clarinet. Alan was a handsome young man with blue eyes and brown hair, but at the age of nineteen, had only reached a minimal five feet four inches. Some said Alan had an elflike quality that made him "cute." In 1955, the Jardine family packed up and moved to California where father Charles was to manage a blueprinting plant for the Scott Railroad Company. Alan attended Hawthorne High where he met the Wilson brothers and also joined a folk group called the Islanders. After high school, Al attended El Camino College after his graduation in June of 1960; he and Brian were in the same graduating class. Eventually Alan ran into Brian on campus and they decided to form a band. The band included brothers Dennis and Carl and Cousin Mike and they called themselves the Pendletones. .
The roots of the Beach Boys lie in the summer of 1961. Brian and Alan had just reunited on the campus of El Camino College, Mike had married Frances St. Martin on the 4th of January, and Dennis and Carl were still at Hawthorne High. The Pendletones, as they called themselves, took their first step towards success when they auditioned for the Morgans. They had first decided to audition using a few classics that Alan had suggested but the Morgans insisted they use original music if they wanted to be recorded. The Morgans were Los Angeles music publishers who owned Guild Music. Across from the old Capitol building stood Guild, a small, storefront publishing and recording firm in a one-story building.