Greetings Class of ' 69

I have enjoyed returning to the past from all of the information and pictures that have been posted so far. It has taken me a while to get my posting in because this Underwood typewriter that I have from Mrs. Porter's typing class would not do the job. Hopefully this will go through this time.

I was glad to hear that someone else is caring for a lot of pets also. We have seven dogs and four cats that have mostly found us. They are a lot of fun and work.

All of our children are in Texas now. Guy Wesley and family reside in San Marcos. He was in the Navy for 16 years and is a RN. Zack and wife have recently moved to Pampa. He is in the Army and is one of the recruiters for the Panhandle area. Cassie lives in Houston and works in retail clothing for Talbots.

We are wanting to move out of hurricane country to New Mexico. We have been hit with damage from Hurricanes Rita, Humberto, and Ike. Hopefully this season will be calm.

Hope to see everyone in June and I will post some pictures at a later date.

Freshman class, page 4

Freshman class, page 3

Freshman class, page 2

Freshman class, page 1

Do you wanna dance

Who all do you recognize?

Jerry Dwyer Family

Picture of Jerry and Nancy, Joe, Krista, and Jed.

Tom

I finally got into the blog. I will send pictures later. See everyone in June!

-Tom

Hello to all! It has been really great to see all the pictures and read the comments....just like we never left. I do hope all are happy, healthy and going strong. I actually have attempted to log in and post a couple of times....who knows where my original post is residing and who is reading it! Glad I finally mastered the correct log in and thanks for the prodding to do so. What wonderful family shots posted! My two kids are pretty camera shy but I will try to dig deep and come up with something. Daughter Mary-Evelyn is 28 and currently a final year vet student at the Univ. of Edinburg, Scotland; undergrad is from A&M. Son Philip just turned 25, took the scenic route at A&M, graduated last May and is now working in Dallas. No grandchildren yet but do have 9 grandpets, if that counts. Gary and I are staring down anniversary number 35 this year and are wondering where all the time has gone. I have to say that I am very impressed with how you guys have put this together and pushed to locate us all. Some I recognize immediately, others I have to look a little harder but I do hope to see you all in June. Thanks for all the sharing!

Freshmen coming soon...

I have our freshman yearbook pages scanned but I'm having trouble uploading them. Will get that figured out in a day or so and post those pages. Boy, we look young to be in high school!

McCarty Girls

Maggie (20), Macey (16), Mallory (18).  Spring Break 2009.

JDM

OK.  Well, I know I am not the brightest puppy in the litter, but with Eldo's help here it is.  

I hope this finds everyone happy and well.  A little catch-up on the past 40 years.  This is a banner year for the McCarty family.  Janet and I will have been married 25 years in September, Maggie (oldest) will be 21 in June, Mallory (next in line) turned 18 in January, Macey (baby) will be 16 in December and Janet crosses over to the dark side at 50 in December.  Does anyone know a banker I can borrower some money from?  Maggie is a junior at Texas A&M, Mallory is a senior at Highland Park High School (wantabe Aggie) and Macey is an eighth grader at Highland Park Middle School.  No, we didn't intentionally start all of their names with an M, it just happened that way.  No luck in promoting the Red Raiders (Macey is likely headed to College Station as well). 

I am looking forward to seeing all of you in McLean.  Thanks to Gary, Brad and Mike for getting this started.  Lots of memories of a great time in my life.

JM

More Graduation Stuff

Graduation Activities 1969

Who knew the class flower? Who knew the class colors? Who knew the class motto? Who knew the class song? Who knew Patricia and Toni's middle names? Heck, who know Darsey was smart? gde

Hello, I hope everyone is doing great and getting excited about the reunion. Hope to see you there.
Kay Greer

High School Reunion

ok ok alright you got it...!!!

Brad and Bradley

Here I am with my new grandson, Michael Bradley Parker. Bradley was born 04-14-2009. He is Brenda and I's first grandchild. I must confess I'm just a little proud.

Hello form HEC

Hello Guys and Gals,

Nice pictures. I will send some in the next few weeks. I will give you a brief history of me. I have lived in Amarillo since 1975. I graduated from WTAMU with my BBA and MBA. I am married to Ellaine a RN at BSA Hospital. We have two daughters 26 and 22. The oldest is married and is moving to Lubbock and the youngest is a senior at WTAMU. Hopefully, she will get out before I retire. I work as an account manager for a firm that does staffing and recruitng across the US. I travel all over Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and sometimes Nevada. I travel alot to Dallas, San Antonio, Denver, Las Vegas, Waco, Oklahoma City, and now Austin. Just got back fron Las Vegas and played in many Texas Hold'em tournaments. I keep my money a little longer this way. Both of my parents still live in Mclean and I travel there every two weeks to get my to do list from them. Contact phone numbers are 806-674-0658 and 806-290-3533.
Hope to see all of you in June.
Take Care my friends,
Howard

35th Wedding Anniversary

Brenda and I celebrate our 35th Wedding Anniversary today. Here is a picture of us leaving the church in McLean 4-12-1974 and a picture of us today.

Here's Earnie's blogg

Ok all you tiggers...err Tigers, listen up. My wife is typing this so it says what she is thinking. I can't type worth a darn. Somehow I forgot everything I was taught in typing except how to hit someone's return button when I made a mistake.

I can't believe how old we all are. Ugh...too many gray hairs and wrinkles here. Oops...forgot about senile hair...you know the stuff that forgot to grow in the very wide part on my head! And all the furniture disease! Those chests hanging over the drawers is pathetic! I am slowly sucumbing to half heimers...old timers disease.

I do a lot of thinking about the here after. I walk into a room and wonder..."what am I here after?"

Ok Gary you can get off my back now... I have blogged!

Sixth grade, page 2

Sixth grade, page 1

Fifth grade, page 2

Fifth grade, page 1

Backyard picture - finally

My wife Sharon

Meeting site for '09

This is my backyard.

Fourth grade, page 2

Fourth grade, page 1

Sandi Bannister

Carrie and twins.

My son and his family.

Me and Larry Parr 2004

Surrounded by my children, their spouses and my first 2 grands.

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Okay guys, you guilted me into posting these photos. It took a bit of study to figure out how to post to the blog. I’d like to know how many cancer survivors are among us. I had a bone marrow transplant in late 1998, for leukemia. Even though my family is quite large, none of them were a match, so I got Host versus Graft Disease with scleroderma and have been battling it since. With lots of support from my family, I am much better today. Just wondering who else had a strange health problem. Maybe it was all those mosquito sprays the city used to do, or there was something in the water, so let me know if you’re a cancer survivor! I wish I had some old photos to share. I lost my yearbooks long ago, and am afraid I won’t recognize many of you, so please, go ahead and send recent pics too.
Sandi

scoban history

Me, Carrie and her twins with Mom and Dad, who live in Panhandle.

1964 Pep Squad

Coach Hunt and 1964 team

What a handsome group!

Claudia, my wife, enjoying Las Vegas fast food. First time out of her home country of Chile.

Carribean Cruise. Great Vacation. That's Glenna with me. Girlfriend then, friend now.

My Children, John and Christine.

Trail Riding in Arizona last year

Me in Caldera, Chile. I worked there for two years. I'm buying a boat this day.

This is Chuckie, my appy/arab endurance horse. He's done 100 miles in less than 12 hours. While I was along for the ride and did practically nothing, I didn't feel as good as he did when we finished!

There were many exotic animals where I kept Chuckie in Kansas. Alladin was a sweetheart, and I would have bought him if I could. He's rideable!

Present location

Big League Baseball

Our son, Austin, signed with the Minnesota Twins out of high school. He pitched for two seasons in Florida in the minors until a shoulder injury ended that career. gde

Little League Baseball

Bryan & I getting ready to play some baseball. Remember the three teams ,the Cubs, Cardinals, and Braves. I played for the Braves and Bryan played for the Cubs.

Joel & Gary at St. Patrick's Day 1963

Joel, Dennis, Jerry Don and I rode the train to Shamrock for St. Patrick's Day when we were in the seventh grade. gde

McLean Rodeo?

8th Grade Graduation

Do you remember the white sport coats the boys wore to Graduation? How about the party we had at Ellison's Chevrolet afterwards? I can remember playing 45's and dancing the night away (until midnight I believe).

McLean's Phillips 66 Gas Station