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May 28, 2006 at 10:39 pm |
We have a Classmate seeking a 1954 Westerner. If you have an extra copy, or know who might have one for sale, please write me back, and I will forward this information to her. Thanks!
June 3, 2006 at 10:19 pm |
Hey!! Tommy,
Thanks you for all the time you spend on the class web-site.
Without you, those of us who live outside SA would not have a link to what is happening with our class members.
I guess all of us are getting OLD and won’t take time to visit the page often, but with this new bulletin board we can now keep up with the world of 1954.
Thanks
June 10, 2006 at 3:33 pm |
Greetings, Tommy,
Hey, this blog site is much more user friendly than the previous versions; I hope it survives this beta testing phase. I just visited the class website for the first time in a long time, and see that you are still soldiering on with keeping it up to date – no small task.
Thanks so much for sustaining this link to the past.
August 4, 2006 at 8:21 pm |
Hi, Tommy, and appreciate you work in keeping is in touch during this long, hot and dry summer. Yes, this site really is easier to deal with than the last, especially since we all are losing brain cells on a daily basis. Nice to hear from both Don and Charles!
My personal qualification for being an “Old School” kind of gal–I not only remember when Arden Road was a dusty, dirt lane–I lived on it. Who (except maybe J.P. Barnes and Frances and Marie Wuemling) can top that?
Regards, Suzie
August 8, 2006 at 5:45 pm |
Thanks Tommy for all the work you do on this website. I’m sure I speak for many who really do appreciate you working on it and keeping it up to date.
Good to hear from Don, Charles and Suzie.
I have been wondering about Frances Castor. Would love to hear from her if she reads this. Martha
September 3, 2006 at 6:02 pm |
I don’t rember the court house at Ben Ficklan, but i went to jr. high made from the stones from the old building. That is the story I heard.
September 26, 2006 at 12:00 am |
Tommy, I was just remembering Ben Ficklin and the juke box that we danced to on the cement slab and all the guys who would jump into the river from the rope hanging from a tree. Had lots of fun at Ben Ficklin. Hard to believe that the town has grown all the way out there and a little past it.
October 20, 2006 at 3:13 am |
Hi Classmates, I had an idea for next reunion. What if we started out at the first event having everyone’s name called out Like they were receiving their diploma. (they could stand or whatever.) At that time, the M. C. could give out some brief info on them (submitted ahead of time). That way, we could know who was there and be able to seek them out. I saw people in pictures I did not even know were there. What do you think?? I thought you might be more apt to give an honest answer if you didn’t know who’s idea it was. Maybe you have a better idea. Why don’t we bounce some back and forth. That way, we would also know a little bit about what people have been doing the last 50 odd years.
Good job, Tommy, and many thanks!!
January 31, 2007 at 5:53 pm |
I think the idea “Peter Lawford” had for calling out the names of people there and a very short info would be wonderful. I too did not see some that I would have loved to talk to. Although it was a wonderful Reunion we can always improve on it.
March 13, 2007 at 4:45 pm |
We regret to report that Maxine Graham Bunyard’s husband Bobby has died here in San Angelo March 12, 2007, of undisclosed causes.
Bobby was a 1953 SAHS graduate, and a true friend to our SAHS 1954 Class, as well. He will be missed.
Condolences may be sent to Maxine at their home, 216 S. Park, San Angelo – 76901.
June 7, 2007 at 3:09 am |
Greetings to All, It seems to me that Tommy went to a lot of trouble to set this up for us and so few have bothered to respond. Guess we all get bogged under in our own little world. Some of us have moved away and don’t know what has happened with all of you over the last 50-odd years. Maybe the ones who are interested could give brief bio’s on themselves. What they did for a living, where they have lived, how many children they had, where they have traveled—I don’t know, use your imagination. Inquiring minds want to know. Lets put this to good use. Some brave soul can be first.
July 8, 2007 at 12:11 am |
OK..Peter…I will the first Brave Soul to tell it all….
After SAHS, I joined the Air Force for 4 years. I spent most of that time in Texas, San Antonio, Amarillo and Abilene. Never could get overseas to see the world. I taught aircrew the fuel system on the B-47 Bomber. Mrs. Probandt would never believe I could teach anything to anyone. When I look back, she was a neat lady. Even though I drove her nuts.
I married, whom I believe was the most beautiful girl in San Angelo, Jeanette Dodson, in 1957, and we have been together for 50 years. We have 3 great children, Danny,
J. Edward and Krista. We now have 8 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren( last was born 7/2/07)
Most of them live near us and we see them often, which is such fun. Birthdays and holidays are so much fun and we all enjoy each other.
After the military, we moved back to San Angelo for awhile, then to Midland, where I managed a carpet store for about 2 years, then back to San Angelo. I got a real estate brokers license and worked for Ben O’Neal, a great guy, who taught me the business.
In,1968, we moved to Hurst, Tx, between Dallas and Ft. Worth.
Jeanette and I established our own real estate company,
Gill & Associates and operated it together with some good employees. We bought, sold and built homes for the next 5 years and enjoyed working together
In 1973, Jeanette wanted to become a stay at home Mom for the kids, so we sold our business and I entered the title insurance business with Guardian Title Company in Fort Worth.
It was the best business decision I ever made. I remained in the title business for the next 30 years and in 2003 I retired as President of a title company in Dallas. I love retirement..never miss driving to Dallas..
Jeanette and I still live in Hurst. I play golf about 3 days a week, she does some antique shopping and anything she wants( when Mama is happy everyone is happy. haha) We spend time with the family and our dachshund Zoe. She is my errand buddy. We travel some, but we are home bodies so we stay pretty close. We are going to The Antique Roadshow in San Antonio, July 14th, so watch for us on the TV.
My, 90 year old, Mom lives in Canton,Tx with my sister Ricci, who is a western artist, and her husband, who raises quarter horses. I go see Mom quite often. She is and always has been the beacon of light in my life.
My brother Stan and his wife live in New Orleans where they own a printing business. He is looking forward to retiring soon. They travel quite a lot.
My brother Jim and his wife lives in San Angelo and California where he continues to paint and sculp. He has placed many works of art in private collections and museums throughout the US. He has bought land west of San Angelo and now has horses..guess he is looking for his roots.
Family is so important to all of us and we all spend as much time as we possibly can together. We were all together this 4th of July. So Much Fun….
Well that is all the ramblings I know and can write and I am sure all anyone wants to read.
So now that I have been the first to accept this challenge, I expect others to follow…….
FORE……………………
July 20, 2007 at 12:04 pm |
I am so glad to read about Don Gill. I hope others will write
their bios also. Always wonder where people live and about their families.
July 20, 2007 at 12:22 pm |
I would like to give my bio also. I married Jim Beall when I
was a Junior in High School. We had 2 children, a girl and a boy. My daughter has 2 boys and the oldest has 3 children,
a boy 9, a boy 7 and in March had a little precious girl. My daughter’s other son is still single. They all live in San Angelo. My son had a daughter and a son. Daughter has no children and she lives in Maryland. His son is married and has a little boy who is 3 and they live in Wisconsin. My son lives in Queen Creek, Arizona (about 35 miles south of Phoenix. I really enjoy the great grandkids. Jim died in 1981 of a heart attack. I married Coy Meares who had a car lot here in San Angelo and we were divorced after 14 years. He married his secretary!!! I then married Donald Ray Baker whom I had known since I was 16 and he was a 1951 graduate of SAHS. He died in May, 2002.
I am now married to Kenneth Fox. He was a 1953 graduate of SAHS and we dated in High School. He married Carolyn Pierce and they moved to California. He moved back here in 2001. I found out about it at our 50th Class Reunion in 2004 and we got together and very soon thereafter we got married. He has 3 children, 2 girls and 1 boy. One daughter lives in Katy, Tx., one lives in Phoenix and his son lives here in San Angelo and was a Police Officer for about 29 years.
He is now retired. He has 2 boys and Ken’s oldest daughter has a son and a daughter and 2 granddaughters. His younger daughter has no children. I spend my time with my daughter (who is confined to a wheel chair with MS) and my
great grandchildren. I like to sew and do needlework, read, play cards (Hand & Foot) and spend time on the computer.
Hope to see more bios on this space.
July 21, 2007 at 2:42 am |
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to express my condolences to Maxine Grahm Bunyard. Seems you have had a very bad year—first you lost your husband, then a brother-in-law and now a sister. I am so sorry for your losses.
To G’anna Antilley Smith, I hope you survived the flood.
To Don & Jeanette Gill, congradulations on your 50th anniversary. Don, you get the gold medal. Good for you sending the first bio. You are right—you did marry one of the prettiest gals around. Don’t know if she remembers me or not, but there was a bunch of us (10 or 15) that used to eat lunch at a cafe on Chad. a block or 2 from SAHS. We always had a big long table.
I see my good friend, Martha sent her bio in also. Great! Guess I will have to get on the stick and do mine—maybe in a week or so. I’m not spending much time on the computer lately. Hope I can be brief with the last 53 years or so of my life. Dang!!! Am I that old??? I know you will all be wating with bated breath to hear my life story.
Hope to hear from others also. I enjoyed reading those two bios we just got.
Thanks, Tommy. This is fun. Barb
July 28, 2007 at 5:11 pm |
Come one everyone, leave your bios. I love reading them and finding out what everyone has been doing and where they are living and where they have lived. I seem to be commenting on this thing more than anyone else. Barb, sure am waiting with bated breath for your bio.
December 11, 2007 at 2:12 am |
Suzanne Carter Hahn is here in El Paso visiting and we just ” got to talking” about all you fine people we USE to know. Fun looking up comments and singing along with the fight song! AT least the one of us that could remember the words hee hee. Happy Holidays everyone and thanks for all your work Tommy, making this possible. Kay P.S. from Suz. Kay has asked more than once when our next reunion will be. One of these days maybe we should talk about it? Thanks again for all your work, and Kay and I’ve had a lot of fun this weekend.
December 20, 2007 at 7:26 pm |
It was fun to read the note from Kay and Suz…although, knowing those two I would have expected the comments to be longer. only kidding…
I check this site on a regular basis and sure wish others would post tid-bits of information about themselves, their families, trips or anything you do.
As we all grow older, we sometimes think we have less to say that would be interesting to others, but many of your class mates are interested in you and what is happening in your world. I know I am.
Jeanette and I went to the Antigue Road Show in San Antonio in July and made it on their website ( you can cut and paste it, if you are interested)
It was fun…maybe go next year and take other stuff.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/series/highlights/2008/sanantonio/sftr_bts_09.html
How do I spend my time? I made myself a pair of wooden saw horses, last week. Always wanted a pair and now I have them. Anyone needs a pair let me know and I will build you a pair.
Jim, my brother, has moved to San Angelo, from California and is busy painting, Stan stills lives in Louisana and hopes to retire in 2 years, Ricci, our sister, lives in Canton, TX where she paints and does western crafts for her booth at 1st Monday. We lost our mother last month at 90 years old and althouth we miss her so much she is in a better place and lived a wonderful life.
Jeanette has had some health problems, but we are greatful and happy for the health we have at our age.
We are looking forward to Christmas and being with all our children, we have so much fun when we are all together.
We wish all of our friends in the Class of “54,
A MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Stay in touch, people…
Don & Jeanette
June 23, 2008 at 9:35 pm |
Since a few others have broken the ice and it is so interesting to read about their life experiences, I thought I would give it a try, although at the expense of being overly wordy! So here goes.
I was an Army/Air Force brat having moved to San Angelo in early 1948 when my dad was transferred to Goodfellow. I attended 5th and 6th grade at John H. Reagan and Glenmore elementary and Jr. High at Edison. I was sort of an “under the radar” guy in high school. I worked after school and didn’t participate much in extra-curricular activities. I worked at the M-System food store on Ave B for many years. In May, 1954, I joined the Marine Reserve just after the great Lakeview tornado. After high school I attended SAJC and graduated in 1956. I had a brand new 1955 black and white Ford Victoria. Man, talk about bad timing, the ’55 and ’56 Chevys ran circles around Ford in those days.
In the spring of ’56, I met Joyce Jackson (class of ’57) on a blind date arranged by Robert Knox (class of ’56) and Dana Powell (class of ’57). We hit it off and were soon going steady. I left M-System and took a job as draftsman at General Telephone. We double-dated a lot with Ray Mobley, my closest friend. Joyce and I made plans to get married and for her to work while I attended The University of Texas. She graduated in 1957; we were married in August and moved to Austin. We found a great little 27 foot Terry Manor trailer at the Pecan Grove Trailer Park on Barton Springs Road and set up housekeeping while I enrolled at the University.
That first year was really rough; I don’t know how many times we thought about throwing in the towel and returning to San Angelo. To top it off, Joyce became pregnant and we had a son, Michael, in July, 1958 I worked part-time for Austin Air Conditioning Co, and, during the summers, did yard work around the trailer park for free rent. After Michael was born, we moved up to a 43-foot trailer with an air conditioner and built-in washing machine. Times were tough and thank goodness for our folks, who brought us food and occasionally chipped in some dough to keep us going. I don’t think we ever showed enough appreciation to them.
Holiday weekends, we made trips to Sonora (where Joyce’s parents were for a while) and San Angelo. Sometimes Herman Gotcher hitched a ride with us. What a thrill it was to come back to Austin on Sunday night and see the Texas tower lit up in Orange after the Longhorns had won a victory. It gives me goose bumps just sitting here thinking about it and typing these words. Well, we managed to persevere and I made it through, graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1960. After interviewing many companies, we settled on Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh, PA. By then, I was interested in the air conditioning field. We even splurged and bought a shiny new 1960 Pontiac Ventura bubble-top with 3-2bbl carbs. My, how naïve and adventurous we were.
Well, we packed up and set out for Pittsburgh. Westinghouse had made arrangements to have the trailer transported there. We arrived and I signed on with Westinghouse. Thank goodness, they gave us a travel allowance, as we waited and waited for the trailer to arrive, living in motels and even spending one night at the local airport parking lot where, during the night we were rudely awakened by a security guard banging on the window; he thought we were making out. When Michael stood up in the back seat rubbing his eyes, the guard apologized and let us stay. I even had to go to J. C. Penny’s and buy a suit, shirt and tie to report to work. In those days “professionals” had to wear coats and ties. Well, the trailer finally arrived about two weeks late and we set up housekeeping. By this time, Joyce was well along with a second pregnancy and due in December.
While at the Westinghouse student training center, everyone was tested and I was fortunate to have scored high enough to be selected for the Advanced Mechanics Fellowship Program which meant I and 5 others would attend University of Pittsburgh for a year on a Masters Degree curriculum. We would be assigned to the Westinghouse Research Laboratory to work on our Master’s thesis project. I chose to work on a hydrostatic journal bearing test project under the tutelage of John Boyd and Al Raimondi, two of the foremost bearing experts of the time. I really didn’t want to go back to school but the opportunity was too great to pass up. The course work was very difficult and demanding. Joyce was nearing term and Cindy was born in December, 1960. While she was in labor, I went out and had snow tires put on the Pontiac. During the winter, I skidded into a curb bending a wheel and was sideswiped by another car on a narrow snow-packed road. Also, the acid atmosphere (from all the smeltering) was pitting the pot metal trim. So much for the new car.
Anyhow we made it through and I took a position at the Westinghouse Aerospace Electric Division in Lima, Ohio, developing liquid metal cooled generators for an Air Force space program. I had given up on air conditioning and just wanted to get as far west as we could. Lima wasn’t too bad but the winters were bitterly cold and so, after a couple of years we began looking for employment with a nicer climate. We sold the trailer and moved into an apartment. Our third child, Peter, was born in August, 1962. We didn’t want to sink roots too deep as we eventually wanted to get back to the southwest. In retrospect, we felt really bad about leaving Texas and depriving our parents of time with the grandkids. After a year or so of looking in Texas with no success, I left my resume at the UT alumni employment office during a vacation visit and AiResearch Manufacturing Co. in Phoenix, AZ picked it up and offered me a job. So, in Feb., 1965, we packed up and moved to Scottsdale, AZ. AiResearch engineered and built small gas turbines and other support equipment for military and commercial aircraft.
We had traded cold, snowy winters for hot summers but at least we didn’t have to spend fortunes on winter clothes. Over the years AiResearch was gobbled up by Signal Oil, then Allied Chemical and finally, Honeywell. I stayed with AiResearch for 33 ½ years and retired in 1998 as a Principal Engineer in Space and Marine Systems. During my career I worked on a variety of projects including liquid metal lubricated bearings, twin spool turboprop engines, turbine powered generators for space applications, solar powered gas turbines and the Navy’s MK50 torpedo (we developed a chemical powered torpedo propulsion system in the middle of the desert).
Our daughter Cindy had married and moved to Minneapolis so, after retirement, we made summer trips up there for several years. Joyce was into Genealogy and looked up Ray Mobley, my best friend with whom I had lost contact and hadn’t seen in 35 years. He and his wife, Noy (Michaels, class of ‘57), were living in Plano. Since this was almost on the way to Minneapolis (we always had to visit relatives around Austin and Kerrville), we contacted him and visited several times. I was really thankful that we got to spend some time together before his untimely death. Soon after, Cindy moved back to the Phoenix area with her two children.
One of our recent highlights was attending the 50th class reunion and reacquainting with classmates, most of whom I hadn’t seen in all that time. I think there is a special bond between high school graduates whether we were intimate friends or just casual acquaintances. We were all thrown together during that period in our maturing process. We could indulge in casual conversations as if we had last seen each other a couple of months ago instead of 50 years ago.
Now, after nine years of retirement and summers hotter than Hades, we are busy enjoying the grandchildren. We are fortunate enough to have all the children and grandchildren in the Phoenix area. I keep busy with home repair and remodeling projects, rooting for the Longhorns and tinkering with my 1966 Malibu convertible. Last August, Joyce and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary.
Well I guess I’ve taken up enough space for now. Looking forward to the next reunion.
Frank & Joyce
July 18, 2008 at 5:56 pm |
Hey! Everyone,
We really enjoyed reading the post by Frank and Joyce. It is fun to read about other clasmates and how they have spent their lives, over the past years.
Wish others would take the time to post..
So we am throwing out a few Gill comments to our classmates.
Jenette and I are doing good..Hey! we are spring chickens. Just late spring.
She is improving medically every week and I am so happy for her. She has had a tough time this year, but we feel she is in a turnaround. Her doctor is reducing her med’s and all seems to be going as planned. She has had some back procedures which has reduced most of her pain and muscle spasms. She is a trooper. If my love for her can make her well, she will be even better, real soon.
I had my right knee replaced on 7/10/08, came home on 7/13/08 and I am doing good. I am walking, (with a walker) very little pain and have PT 3 days a week. My PT guy said I am doing real well. I think all will be back to normal in 5 weeks or so and hope to be back on the golf course in 10 weeks. I decided July and August was the best time, because it is too hot during those months to do much of any thing outside.
We have a new Great-Granddaughter, born June 30 and both mom and baby doing OK.
All of our kids (3) , grandkids (8) and great-grandkids (7) are healthy, happy and doing great. We are Blessed.
Well we hope all of you are OK and also, healthy, happy and doing great.
Until next time, God Bless.
Don & Jeanette
July 23, 2008 at 2:54 am |
Hey, Everyone, I had not been on my computer since the end of April. I have so much e-mail, I’ll probably just delete it all. Loved the note from Kay and Susie. Nice that you got together. I don’t really know Frank, but I enjoyed reading his bio. Yes, I read every word. It shamed me so, I decided I should get busy and write my own. I think it took me four evenings. It is done. It is longer than anyone, so far. So, now I’m working on trying to shorten it. Hopefully, in a couple of days I will be shooting it off. Don, Martha & Frank did a great job. I just like more details. Don, I am glad Jeanette’s health is getting better. Mike and I both know back problems. Just wanted to alert you my LONG bio. is coming up. Later!!
July 28, 2008 at 2:14 am |
Hi Everyone, I guess it is time I send my bio since graduation. I married the Jan. before graduation. Don’t know why I thought I had to do that, but I did. The good Lord watched over me though, and it turned out fine. I obviously met my soul mate. Our first child and only girl, Tricia was born in San Angelo, in Oct of ’55. Our second child, Michael was born in San Angelo, in Oct. of ’56. Shortly thereafter, we bought our first home on Field St. The end of ’57 there was a rumor Goodfellow was closing. ( I married a fly boy).
Mike got orders to Nellis A. F. B. in Las Vegas, Nevada. We had to report in sometime in Jan. of ’58. We were unable to sell our house before we left. With the rumor of the base closing, the market was flooded with houses. It was kind of rough going for a while paying double rent. Seems like it took 6 months or better to unload our house in San Angelo. Anyway, we had a cute little house right down town about 2 blocks off of Fremont. We could even walk to church. One thing about being in the military, you made friends quickly. Mike was in base flight. Sometime in late ’58 or early ’59 Mike was asked to interview for the USAF Thunderbird team. It was not only about skill and expertise, but about characture. I had to be interviewed also. We were thrilled and honored when he was accepted. In Dec. of ’58 I found out I was expecting number 3. We had already been looking for a place closer to the base. We finally found it in May of ’59. Our Steven was born the end of June’59. The Thunderbirds was not only a “brotherhood” for the guys it was a “sisterhood” for the wives. We had coffees once a month in the evening, regardless if the team was home or not. We called ourselves the Thunderbrides”. There were a lot of firsts when Mike was on the team. They made the first trip to South America and won the McKay Trophy. (first time a group won that.) Then Martin Caidin came along and wrote a book, “The Thunderbirds”. He lived with them for a whole summer. Mike was one of the few mentioned by name. I used to know the page number. We also had the first Thunderbird reunion. They had had annual parties, but not a reunion. They still have reunions every other year. We used to go to most of them. Have missed the last 3, Mike is just not up to it any more, (back problems). That was really a fun and exciting time for us. You were only supposed to serve 2 years on the team, Mike served 3.
Dec. ’61 Mike had orders to report to Dyess, A.F.B. in Abilene. The day before the movers came, the Dr. decided I was pregnant with #4. I knew weeks before. He was not convinced. By the time I went for appointment I was sick as a dog. That was a fun trip. It was nice to be back close to my family again. Our 4th child, another son, Craig was born late July of ’62 in Abilene. Mike was with the 17th troop carrier wing at Dyess. They flew ski model C-130s up on the ice cap in Greenland. Mike had joined Jaycees shortly before we left Vegas and decided to join in Abilene also. I joined Jaycettes, Nice bunch of ladies. I was more active in the club than he was. He was gone all the time. I won a quarterly award for one of my projects, had my picture in the paper 3 times for different activities. Oh, we bought our second home in Abilene.
After about 2years, Mike’s squadron moved to Alaska. July of ’64 found us driving a station wagon with 4 kids up the Alcan. We camped out at night. Now that was an experience. Kids loved it. We had fewer problems than most. I think the worst thing was losing a tail pipe near Whitehorse. Could have been a lot worse, I was mighty happy to see Anchorage though. The nice thing about a squadron move was our friends came with us. We became even closer. Most of our friends had kids around the same ages as ours, so they grew up together. We ended up spending about 5 years or so together. I went back to work. Salaries were twice than lower 48. Most of us had basements which was a great place for parties, so we had lots. There was one almost every weekend. One of my neighbors taught 8 of us how to play bridge. She loved it so much, when Mike was gone she would come over to my place, we would play 2 handed Bridge till the wee hours. Kids loved it there. I could tell lots of stories about Moose, etc. I did not like it and counted down till our return. The first year we were there they had the coldest winter in 100 years. Temps got down to 50 and 100 below zero. When you walked outside the hairs in your nose would freeze up. Got stuck in a snow bank once. First thaw I hit black ice once. That was terrifying. We had some great times, but after 3 years we were ready to come back. Most of our friends stayed another year. They all piled in cars and took us to the air port. We took over the little bar in the air port. We tipped a few; shed a few tears and off we went.
Our new duty station was Lackland A.F.B. Yes, back to Texas and close to my family once again. We flew from Anchorage to Portland OR, where we picked up our brand new car. We probably had two or three weeks travel time. We traveled to CA, NV, on up to Ohio visiting friends & relatives, then back down to TX. Mother couldn’t wait to get the kids all to herself, it was a lot easier for us to house hunt. This was a luxury we never had before. We bought house number 3 in San Antonio. We were there about a year, when I decided to go back to work—kids were all in school. I worked at Guildemeister’s Jewelry Store in North Star Mall (very well known). Probably the best place I ever worked, everyone there was so nice.
Come ’69 Mike was ready to retire from the Air Force. He had his 20 years in and decided it was time. We were on pins and needles for weeks—not knowing where we were going or who he would be working for. He had resumes out all over, from San Antonio to the West Coast. Long story short, we ended up in San Diego. He took a job with Pacific Southwest Airlines—AKA: PSA. It was a great little Airline. San Diego was good for us since Mike’s brother lived there and my sister in Anaheim. Mike took one car and drove to San Diego. He stayed with his brother while he looked for us a place to live, they did not have room for all of us. I took my time (probably 2 weeks) driving out, visiting along the way. Should have had my head examined, just me, 4 kids and 2 dogs. First stop was a week in Alpine, TX, with my Mom. We left there for Phoenix where one of my good friends from Abilene Jaycettes lived. Next stop was Las Vegas to stay with another good friend. Then it was on to Anaheim to spend time with my sis. We then drove north to the “Bay Area”—two long time friends up there, then over to Travis A.F.B. to visit friends from Alaska. We drove back down to Anaheim. Mike had been really busy, he bought us a house. The problem was, they were still building it. This was July it was supposed to be finished in Sept. We didn’t move in till Nov. Mike flew up to Anaheim to meet us and drive down to San Diego. He rented a 2 bedroom utility apt in a motel on the beach. That made the kids happy, they lived on the beach. I couldn’t believe Mike picked out a home without me, but he did good. It was a 5 bedroom 2 bath, I loved it. It had a nice court yard and we put a pool in the back. Thought we’d keep the kids home but the beach usually won out. Our boys informed us there were no girls in bikinis hanging around our pool. We were in a cul da sac and had block parties on holidays, which was nice. Most of our friends were from church, his work or my work. With family there and close by, we were always doing something. After about 7/8 years there we decided we wanted to move. I went looking up North in Encinitas—near La Costa. I found my dream house up there, a resale with lots of up-grades. It was 3000 sq. foot 4 bedroom 2 & ½ bath, wet bar, huge kitchen, den, red tile roof, etc. I got busy and found a job in a bank up there. (about 6 blocks away). We loved the house and we loved living up there. We had good neighbors and I knew all the business people. We were not far from Rancho Santa Fe, where a lot of movie stars lived. Some business men across from the bank told me Patti Page shopped there. I said call me next time she is there, every time they called I was busy and couldn’t leave. I never got to see Patti. We lived in Encinitas for 3 years and really loved it.
Mike and I were becoming empty nesters and starting to get the travel bug. We had looked at R.V. s for years and though it would be neat to have one and travel all over the U. S. In 1979 we finally decided to do it. We had taken R.V. magazines and figured we knew all the ins and outs. So we put the house up for sale, shopped for an R.V., had a huge garage sale, gave stuff to kids & other family members, quit our jobs and July 25th ’79 we set out in our brand new Silver Streak trailer, pulled with a big Ford pick-up. (of course we sold our cars too.) We ended up parking down on the San Diego Bay for a week or so, tying up loose ends and planning our trip, saying our good byes. The first few years we came back to So. Cal., for the winter to spend time with kids and grandkids. Long story short, we met lots of wonderful people, oohed and awed over this beautiful country of ours. We joined a travel club called “Escapees” Our first year out. That opened many doors and we ended up helping build the first co-op R.V. Park of the club. There were twenty lots, we were lucky enough to be one of the first twenty to get a lot. We ended up with a club house where we had meetings, social events, and fund raisers. The big ones were : Fall Brawl & Spring Fling. We had happy hours at 4:00 from Sept to April (most people left when it got hot). What a crazy bunch of people, we had a great time. We were like recycled teen agers. I produced & directed two Mystery plays over the years. All of our kids were ready to have us committed when we sent home pictures of our skits. (men dressed as women and old women dressed as sexy torch singers, etc.) When the kids started moving around, we ended up spending winters at our co-op in Casa Grande, Az.. We still visited kids, of course. They also came to visit us. We were very lucky to be there when our grand daughter was living in Tucson. She married a military man also (met at Goodfellow). Both of our great grandbabies were born in Tucson (20 months apart) and we were chief baby sitters. Our Gr. Grand daughter will be 15 next month and her brother is 13. They just spent 2 weeks with us. I could tell many stories and many things happened in the 20 years we traveled in our R.V.
Tragedy struck in June of ’80 when our son Steve was struck by a drunk driver. He was on life support for a couple days which allowed us time to fly there. He was brain dead, nothing they could do. We buried him 2 days before his 21st birthday. It was like the end of the world. Without my faith, I never could have survived. Tragedy struck again in ’92 when we lost our oldest son, Michael. He died the end of March of MRSA at age 35. He had been terminally ill, I took care of him that last year—something I had to do. We had nurses when it got bad, but I was there for him. I don’t know which is worse losing one suddenly or watching them suffer and die. There again, faith led me through it. I still have my moments, but one cannot wallow in grief or they will go insane. We still feel Blessed in spite of the big losses we had. We have wonderful family and friends all over the world. Between the military and our travel we have many long term friends. Postage is expensive at Christmas. I almost forgot, we spent a summer (May-Sept.) in England & Europe in ’86 or ’87, that was fabulous. We have had a great life—what more could one ask for. Our son, Craig was after us to build on his property, so finally in ’99 we did. Have not done any R.V. travel since. We are country folks now. Our daughter, Tricia just moved back from Florida. Our granddaughter, Melissa and her children: Genevieve & Michael are still in Florida. Our grandson, Will is still not settled.
Sorry, I don’t know how to make 55 years any shorter. We plan on living a lot longer, but it has been great, so far. Now, let’s hear from others.
September 17, 2008 at 12:05 am |
I’d like to say ” Thanks” for all the work done on this web site. Hope all of you have a blessed day and looking forward to seeing you next year.
Sincerely
Fred
December 21, 2008 at 8:32 pm |
From Don and Jeanette to our friends in the Class of ’54.
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAAASSS
AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
December 31, 2008 at 5:57 am |
It looks like Barb, Don and I are on this more than anyone.
I wish more of our classmates would be willing to share
with us. I am sad to say that my husband, Ken Fox is
now in a nursing home. He has been in nursing homes
since Sept. 10, 2008. He has Alzheimers and doesn’t
remember very many people and no one’s name. I
believe he thinks he is at home and seems to be pretty
happy where he is. He loves the nurses and gives them
hugs and kisses (kisses on the cheek) all the time. A
lady who is in the nursing facility and Ken get along
real well. They are like 2 little kids. They make faces at
each other and walk outside (fenced in area) together
sorta follow the leader type thing and sometimes will
walk down the hall together. He use to ask me to take
him home and then asked me to stay with him but does
neither anymore. It is very sad but he seems happy and
he is doing pretty well except for the memory loss. He
knows that I am his wife but I’m not sure which wife he
thinks I am. He doesn’t remember my name. Alot of you
may remember him from high school. He was in
gymnastics and was very good. My cousin G. C. Attaway
was in gymnastics also, so he knew Ken very well.
I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope it
is a good one for all.
Martha
February 24, 2009 at 2:11 am |
Hi, I am looking to see if anyone has a spare copy of the 1954 Westerner yearbook. My grandfather, Orville J Turner is looking for a copy to get in touch with some friends and I am having a hard time locating a copy. Please let me know at ravx25 at yahoo dot com. Thanks in advance.
March 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm |
Does anyone know what happened to Sheila Barry? I lost contact with her and her husband Dom about 1966, after they moved to Detroit.
Katherine Carter Moody
March 10, 2009 at 6:51 pm |
Katherine:
Thanks for using our “Conversations” feature. I am trying to bring others to use it, as well. It will be a great resource for us all!
As to Shelia barry (Bausano) I regret to inform that we received information that she was deceased. I don’t remember when it was, or how we were told about it, but in the search for lost Classmates, it was learned that she had died.
Just Today (March 10, 2009) our ”on-line” class database was updated, which lists Shelia and the many other Classmates who have passed.
Tommy
March 13, 2009 at 12:42 am |
Thanks to the initial reunion notice, I just became aware of the website. You have provided a nice feature with the conversations page and I too am hopeful more folks will use it. BTW, do you still have that “old, ratty” pickup?
I’m still playing with cars too…never seem to grow up.
March 15, 2009 at 9:46 pm |
not a comment, but a question, is the Hatatorium still there, or, if not do you know about when it closed?
March 24, 2009 at 5:22 pm |
Greg:
The Hatatorium closed in 1993.
As it turns out, the owner/operator (Gary Busker)is my direct across street neighbor, and he still makes custom hats for people. If interested, let me know, and I will get you in contact with him, one to one.
Tommy
March 24, 2009 at 5:32 pm |
Although Sams Chicken Shack was mentioned previously in the “old School..” comments, how many remember, in addition to being a popular evening place to meet after parties and dates, Sams Chicken Shack delivered hot, fresh fried chicken to your door- just call your order in!
Those were the days of good times and friends, well to be remembered and cherished.
March 24, 2009 at 7:44 pm |
Tommy,
I hope this links to your Chicken Shack comment. No, I lived too far out in the sticks to get fried chicken delivered to my door.
But, try this on for size. Do you remember the J. H . Westbrook radio commerical? I figure you and I could reenact that short commercial if there is a talent contest at the next reunion. You would do the voice and I would do the sound effects, unless I lose the coin toss and the roles are reversed. The jingle went like this:
If you need lumber, (sawing sound)
Call our number, (sawing sound)
J. H., (sawing sound) Westbrook, (sawing sound)
J. H. (sawind sound) Westbrook (sawing sound) Lumber. (sawing sound)
I’ll furnish the props: a board and a saw.
April 9, 2009 at 10:54 pm |
After graduation I worked for Wallace Studios Lab until I married in June of 1956. I also married an Air Force guy. We left San Angelo in January of 1958 for Dover, Delaware. After being pregnant for 3 years, I ended up with Paul, born in May 1957, Bob born June 1958, and Barbara born November 1959. Paul flew transports to Europe and other places, being home an average of 5-10 days a month(a day here and there) and I would have probably pulled my hair out except for the wonderful support of the other wives and people. We had to rely on each other as we were so far from family and alone so much of the time. In the fall of 1962 we moved to Tinker in Oklahoma City. We bought a pickup camper and started spending many of our weekends at Lake Texoma and Lake Murray near Ardmore, OK.
During our years at Tinker I decided to experiment with college. Fortunately, we ended staying there long enough for me to graduate from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. Needless to say, that was a very busy time for me, what with a husband and 3 kids and other social commitments with the Air Force. Our tour at Tinker ended in February 1969 with Paul going to Vietnam and I returned to San Angelo for the year he was gone. I taught school at Sacred Heart Cathedral School: American History, Texas History & Geography, Economic Geography, World Geography and Religion to my 8th grade homeroom.
Our next assignment was to Travis AFB near Vacaville, CA. Paul went back to flying overseas (the other direction now). We stayed there 2 years and then returned to OK where Paul became an advisor to the OK National Guard. He retired there and we settled into another life style. My mother came to live with us and remained for 26 years. I went to work for the Hormel Company. I tried to get a teaching job, but in OK you need to coach something if you are going to teach history. It was a great experience for me to work in the office at Hormel and I learned to do a lot of things in marketing and analysis, plus figuring payroll and keeping data on the personnel. Paul became a corporate pilot for the steak chain named Sirloin Stockade. He was still gone flying, but not near like he was before. This all came to an end in 1982 when he was bitten 3 times by a Brown Recluse(fiddleback) spider. He was 17 weeks before he could even have on clothes on his leg. Since we did not how much care he was going to need I also left my job. He ended up getting along without the predicted skin grafts, etc. and then he started flying free lance and buying and selling airplanes. I worked for H&R Block for a couple of years.
1988 found us in position of having to look after his mother and since she would not move to OK where we were, we leased our house and moved to IL to care for her. We returned to TX in 1993 after her death.
We have done a lot of traveling in our motorhomes and have been in every state in the union plus British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, Quebec, and the Maritimes in Canada. We have been to Mexico several times but never in the motorhome. Paul and I have been to several of the major European cities, England, Scotland, Wales, both North Ireland and the Republinc of Ireland, Germany, and Spain. A cousin who lived in Miles and I went on 2 art history tours with Dr. Robert Prestiano, who teaches Art History at ASU, one to Greece and Turkey and the other to Italy.
When we first returned to TX we lived an 4 acres at Lake Texoma that we had owned since 1971, but it became too much for us to care for alone. In Dec. 1999 we sold the property and moved to a small community on the east side of McKinney, TX called New Hope. Both of our sons live here and our daughter still lives near OKC. We have 7 grandchildren, 4 boys and 2 girls. We still have a motorhome and a boat although we do not use them as much as we used to.
Note to Barbara Mansell – I have a newspaper picture of you & I and others selling poppies – November 1952.
Note to Martha Attaway – Frances Castor doesn’t do computers – or still wasn’t when we visited them in 2005.
Sorry this is so long, but like Barbara said, it is hard to condense 50 odd years in a short space.
April 19, 2009 at 9:39 pm |
Hi, and a big WOW!!! I haven’t been on for a while. So nice to see more people using this space. I enjoyed Betty Hargrove’s bio. Upon reading it, I realize we live very close to each other. (probably 15 miles) We should meet for lunch one day. I’ll have to see that news clipping you were talking about. I did that three years I think. I have one news clipping, but it is of Helen Wills, Billie Scurlock. Kay Mathis, Mary Bessier, and myself. So I would like to see the one you have.
I was thinking about what Peter Lawford said—something about people being announced, sort of like graduation, with a short blurb. That is a good idea. I was thinking though, not everyone goes to all events. Maybe we could be handed a sheet of paper with all those planning to attend. Perhaps you could even put it on the site . Just some ideas.
Happy Spring to All, Barb
April 22, 2009 at 6:13 am |
So good to see a new name and bio. Very good Betty. Nice
to hear about your life since high school. I’m so glad that
some are using this site to give their bios. They are all very
interesting. I know I am on here a lot. seems like every other
comment is one by me. Really looking forward to our Class
Reunion this year. Our class is getting smaller and smaller.
We are fortunate to have Terry Gayle here at the Cowboy
Church. That church is really growing and is meeting a need
in San Angelo that was very much needed.
April 24, 2009 at 1:11 am |
Well, through the good graces of my good friend, Mickey, I just found this site. I just finished reading every line. What fun!! Since it is late at night and I have a hot golf game tomorrow I’ll close for now but “I Shall Return”.
May 1, 2009 at 4:38 am |
To Barbara Mansell Ashcraft —- we are only about 15 miles at best, depending on where you are, etc. We have been in OKC — I have been re-doing curtains for my daughter. I have not been that “nose to the grindstone” active since I made my last major move. Also. I am getting “more laid back” —- not to be confused with “lazy” you understand. I am in the throes of planting flowers — which I used to LOVE, now almost hate, and the rain just makes this North Texas soil become a black clay gumbo that is almost impossible. I’m sure you know this. Also, our beds, in some areas, are no longer beds but lakes since the water does not readily sink into the ground(back to the clay effect). Will call —- my husband is interested in meeting Mike also.
May 1, 2009 at 4:44 am |
To Charles Blumentritt ——– I will never forget the kindness you showed me, my sister, and our families when our mother passed away. She had wanted to come to San Angelo to spend her last days and therefore, we were not afiliated with a church there. You certainly answered our call and we will never forget it. Thank you very much.
May 1, 2009 at 9:06 pm |
To Charles Blumentritt ——- Please accept my apologies for the last note to you. I woke up this am and realized that I had meant to send the note to Charles Greenwood, pastor at Holy Angels Catholic Church. I hope both Charles will forgive the “senior moment”.
May 5, 2009 at 2:36 pm |
Note to Betty H. Brands: So glad you are wanting to get together. We are too. Yes, I’m sure Mike & Paul could talk for hours about airplanes. Right now is not good though. My sister & brother-in-law from Calif. will be here sometime today. They usually stay about a week. Yes, it is summer. I have your e-mail address from the class roster. Got your phone number from Collin county and Princeton phone books. We have both (and then some). So–I will be in touch with you around the middle of this month to see what we can set up. As you know, there are some great restaurants in McKinney. So maybe we could start with lunch—a nice long one. I will look forward to that. My E-Mail address is on the class roster, as well. Feel free to use it even during this week, as I try to check for important stuff, at least, even when I’m busy. Take care.
Good wishes to all classmates. I think this is a good example of what Tommy was thinking about when he set up this site.
Later, Barb M. Ashcraft
June 15, 2009 at 4:08 am |
I just found this website and wanted to comment. Great job!! Does anyone know where Jere Townley is. I would love to hear from her. I don’t know if Martha Attaway remembers me or not, but I started 1st grade with her at Fort Concho. I even remember where she lived on Oakes St. at that time. Does anyone remember Roylene Swafford? I also went to school with her at Fort Concho.
I would love to see others write and say Hi!
Jackie
June 23, 2009 at 5:31 am |
Hi Jackie, Of course I remember you. Jere Townley was
at our last Class Reunion in 2004 and so was Roylene
Swafford. Have not seen you at any of the Class Reunions.
Of course, I don’t always see everyone who comes or get
to talk to them. Hope you will be able to come to our
reunion this year……….would love to see you. Would
love to hear from you and catch up on your life since
High School. My e-mail address is on the roster if you
would like to e-mail me. Just put your name in the
subject line so I will know who it is from. Hope to hear
from you.
Martha
June 25, 2009 at 6:20 pm |
Well! I see more and more of our classmates are finding the website..although they have not written….
I was just reviewing the current classroll “having nothing better to do” and began counting the number who still live in Texas..I was suprised to see over 200 of the 280+ who are still with us, are less than a 41/2 hour drive to San Angelo…
With the 55th Class Reunion coming in October and that makes all of us a bunch of old people, I hope all of you will make the effort to attend as who among us knows if we can attend the 60th.
A reunion is about seeing people who were a part of our lives at the beginning, of that long journey to where we are today..
And it isn’t about how we look , but how we feel inside about ourselves and the others we call friends and classmates.
So when you get the anouncement of the 55th,
be sure to come and be a part of it.
I will be looking,
Don Gill
July 1, 2009 at 11:04 pm |
I was noticing that Don mentioned the class roll and who was still around. Where do I find such a list…is it on this website?
July 1, 2009 at 11:10 pm |
Hi Carline…yes, just click on Class Roll for all that’s available.
July 1, 2009 at 11:39 pm |
Thanks, Mickey. But I can’t seem to find the class roll!
July 2, 2009 at 12:20 pm |
Sorry…it’s on the home page which is…..
http://sahs1954.org/
October 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm |
I would like to tell everyone that my husband, Charles
Kenneth (Ken) Fox passed away on October 1, 2009.
He had been in a nursing home for over a year and had
alzheimers.
October 10, 2009 at 9:03 pm |
Hello to whomever,
Although I don’t have a website and am not given to blogging myself, I got curiously drawn into this absorbing SAHS ’54 weblog. I read everyone’s commentary and chitchat–what a pleasure, thanks for saying it all. Wow, what a trip! As well, thanks to Tommy, et al., for setting it up.
Now it’s my turn, so I’ll try at piecing something together rather than starting from scratch.
Over a half century of life has gone by since SAHS graduation,
and I’m compelled to repeat something I wrote in that 1977 questionnaire of our first class reunion. I’d said “…looking back and seeing what a confused, unmitigated geek I was in high school…” Although I was trying to be cute at the time, I’d still say that view would still hold today on who and what I was then. So it was and is.
After a couple of years at San Angelo College, I went Regular Navy for four years. Following boot camp and electronics school, it was on to a security clearance and underwater surveillance school, and the COMOCEANSYSLANT (oceanographic) program in the British West Indies where I spent the rest of my Navy time. Those two-and-a-half years on Grand Turk Island and Barbados were some of the most memorable and fortuitous. I’m sure most of the COMOCEANSYSLANT secret stuff is now declassified, since you can read about it in Sontag and Drew’s 1998 book, Blind Man’s Bluff, and elsewhere.
Leaving the Navy in September ’61, I went straight to Texas Tech University, getting a 1965 BS in Electrical Engineering with Math and English minors, followed by a three-month European sojourn, plus a Soviet Union train trip. During the cold war, I fancied going to Moscow was a real plucky thing to do. That little stunt precluded my getting a Government Job I later applied for.
Shortly thereafter, I began a career in Lubbock, got married, began breeding a family (two daughters) and moved to Austin where I’ve been from 1970 on.
Divorced and single since 1982, life has been anything but boring, what with engaging friends, loving kin, engrossing interests, and a congenial rapport with my ex-wife.
My two daughters, Jennifer (41), and Melinda (37), are much in my life as equal adults, although at some deeper level they’re still my “babies,” if you know what I mean.
In the 1970s, we got our girls a subscription to Ms. Magazine, which they avidly read (I did too!). And I’m sure such literature influenced their becoming two honestly and truly “liberated” women. But I admit a major ingredient of my interest in Ms. Magazine was I had a crush on writer/editor Gloria Steinem (I still have it), the object of my amorous infatuation. In fantasy, this smart, scrumptious woman–in both mind and body–was my ideal, my love.
Anyway, my younger one, Melinda (no kids) who’s still in New England, lost her man to cancer in 2005. They’d been together 15 years and his sickness and death was so awful for all of us. We’ll always miss Joel.
Jennifer, and her husband John (model son-in-law), who’ve been in Austin all along, have Lou Ella (10) and Ira (6), my two grandkids. If there be a grandfather’s blessing, it is that Jennifer and John have all the seemly and nurturing parental instincts and reflexes–they’re doing it “right.” And there’s a warm rapport John’s parents. I couldn’t be happier with it all.
The rest of Family is geographically scattered, but we’re otherwise close to each other. Younger sister Becky Barnes Ricci (class of ’60) is in San Angelo, and Ducky Barnes Albright (class of ’52) has been in Dallas many years. With all our parents’ generation now gone, Ducky, Becky and I are now “IT,” and flippantly call ourselves the “Holy Trinity.” And all Becky and Ducky’s flock–my nieces and nephews and their little ones–are hither and yon; L.A., San Francisco, Germany. So to me, Family is a most cherished endowment of my life, past, present, and wherever.
Philosophizing, I suppose my highest calling in life has become to raise questions, not so much to seek answers. Moreover, maybe that’s why I never aspired to the popular mantra “be one with the universe,” to share my personal identity with anything “out there.”
Rather, just experience and savor life itself. So be it.
**************************
Written for another purpose, here’s a “professional” biosketch, with typical minutia. Consider it as but a pregnant footnote.
Biosketch
After 31 years with public agencies, Marcus Barnes is an independent consultant with a professional involvement in many aspects of the EMF health effects issue: state of the science, public health, public concern, media reporting, economic and political implications, risk perception, litigation, and regulatory matters. During and after his state-agency tenure, he was involved at both the state and national levels; the U.S. Dept. of Energy National EMF Research Program 1991 Working Group in Washington, DC., the 1990 EPRI Field Reduction R&D ad hoc group, and a participant in several 1998 NIEHS-sponsored scientific review and risk assessment ad hoc symposia, whose work was an integral part of the 1999 NIEHS Report To Congress on EMF health effects. He also served on the EMF task forces of the American Public Power Association, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, and the Large Public Power Council, the latter of whose initiative engendered the National NIEHS/EPA/DOE Research Program known as EMF-RAPID (Research And Public Information Dissemination).
With expert witness experience, he has published various articles and papers, conducted workshops, seminars, and presentations–in the U.S. and Europe–on EMF health effects and risk perception–audiences include The Attorney General’s Office/Consumer Protection, Texas Department of Health, and other governmental agencies and professional organizations. For five years he held epidemiologic tutorial credit sessions for the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene Professional Conference and was a technical reviewer of their official manual on EMF health effects, as well as being a reviewer of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Workplace EMF manual. In 2004, Barnes presented to the Fielding Graduate University School of Psychology Austin Cluster Group.
In the 1970s, when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) established PURPA (Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act), Barnes was on the Texas Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Task Force for Cogeneration and Small Power Production, where he had a significant role in formulating customer/utility interconnection safety requirements. During this time he testified before the PUC in behalf of the Texas Solar Energy Society. In 1978 he was appointed to the City of Austin Energy Conservation/Advisory Commission and served for five years.
While his professional memberships include the Bioelectromagnetics Society (emeritus), and the Association for Psychological Type, Barnes is a past President and on the Board of Trustees for The Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies (INACS), a Past Director of The Human Potential Center of Austin, a Sierra Club lifetime member, and is a registered professional engineer in Texas (inactive), with a 1965 Texas Tech BS degree in Electrical Engineering with Mathematics and English minors. He is a Principal Investigator in an ongoing INACS-sponsored pilot-study project involving established personality theory and handwriting analysis validity.
Barnes has FCC First-Class Commercial Radiotelephone and Amateur Extra Class Licenses, is a qualified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator counselor and his interests range from ham radio, bel canto opera, philosophical inquiry, abstract art, essay and poetry writing, to compulsive junk collecting, and train riding to big cities.
October 21, 2009 at 8:45 pm |
Marcus, sorry I didn’t read this before the reunion. I only visit the website about every five years, and the reason I’m here today is to try to explain how this morning I stupidly erased all the pictures I took Friday night. In any event, I loved hearing more about your life, both professional and family. Loved your comment re. Gloria S. I kinda wanted to grow up to be her. Have you read “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions?” It was written in about 1980, so I’m sure will seem somewhat dated. But it was my Bible for a lot of years. Suz.
October 25, 2009 at 10:42 pm |
Just a brief note to all who attended our 55th Reunion, and especially
to those who made the effort to come from outside the San Angelo
area. Maybe next time we can get the San Angelo folks to attend.
Please let those friend in San Angelo know what they missed. It
was good to see all the old friends and hear the grand-children
stories. The best to you and yours until we meet again.
Gig’em!
Stormy Kimrey ’58
December 23, 2009 at 4:03 am |
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF THE CLASS OF 1954…..All is well and the Gods are smiling! I see some were at the reunion that I would have liked to visit with but didn’t realize they were there. Probably, some was my fault. Maxine, really enjoyed the short time we visited. Same for Suzanne and Sue Mills. Maybe next time. Carol Hill, sorry I missed you. Lois, you are lovely, as always. Stormy, do not recall from scool, but you and your wife are a delight. Nancy Lane, you are a lovely lady; glad to have had some time to visit. GREAT REUNION GUYS…….WISH I COULD HELP……Let me know, I can drive down, and have a place to stay
October 31, 2010 at 2:56 am |
Hello all, I found this site while looking for San Angelo history. It came up I think because of the List of things saying you are old school if you remember this or that. I am old school I am a 1956 graduate of the old San Angelo high. Does anyone remember Concho Kennel Club way back? I am a present day member and one of the things I enjoy doing is keeping up with club activities. Some how over the years the club lost the older records. If any one can remember past activities or has pictures or stories to share I would love to hear from them. In school I was Johnnie Lea Whittenberg, I married Leon Tillery, now deceased. I am now married to Don Tate and we still live in San Angelo.
June 13, 2011 at 1:17 am |
I wasn’t in your class, but know many of you. Tommy and Mary and I stay in touch. By the way my name is Shirley Probst Waldrop. Tommy is doing a great job. I live in San Angelo and worked at the Cowboy Church when you had your Reunion, I was Terrys secretary. Terry is a great guy. I finally retired almost two years ago. I have lost two husbands to cancer. I have three sons and one daughter, ten grandchildren and five great grandchildren. I see Fred Hayes occasionally as we both live at Christian Village.
June 13, 2011 at 6:09 am |
They say part of the old school building we called Edison Jr. High in our time came from the old BenFicklin courthouse. I know the building had several names. Now what did they do with the stones when they tore all that down.
So many folks from our generation have passed.
If there are those around that use to be members of the Concho Kennel Club I would like to hear from you.
I have retired again too.
February 2, 2012 at 5:50 am |
Are there any class of 1951, 1950, 1949 that still remembers me,
Louis Raiborn class of 1951. I am retired now at age 80. It would be nice to hear from someone in my class.
I am training to become number one in the Nation in Swimming.
At Senior National in June 2011, I placed 2nd in the 50 yard Backstroke. Won 3 3rd place medals, a 45h and 6th Place also.
I have been in San Antonio, %X since October 1966. I was a Fireman from 1960 until 1966 at Lubbock, TX. Received my BS in Mathematics. Guess thats it for now.
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