Attended Lee College in the summer of 1954. I a started Texas A&M in the fall of 1954 and graduated in 1959 with a B.B.A. degree. I returned to Baytown and sold insurance for several years – almost starved. Went to work for Sears in furniture and floor covering. Became real active in civic affairs and church
What I have been doing for the last 45 years? I could write a book! In fact that’s just what I am doing! In response to having been told that I should, I am writing my autobiography. If all goes as planned I will have my first draft completed soon. But we know “life is what happens to you while making other plans!”
I’ve had my share of “plans going awry” as most of us have, I’m sure. I have been widowed for 16 years with no prospect of remarriage in the near future. It seems that every time I become interested in someone, or they do me, they run right past me straight into the arms of another woman! Oh well-such is life! But it can be exciting even as a single. I believe in having fun in a clean way!
Some of my favorite memories of growing up in Channelview are the many visits to the San Jacinto Monument, and riding the ferry to get there. Another was going through the Washburn Tunnel in a yellow convertible with the top down.
With 4 children and 7 grandchildren, my life has been rich and full. Church and social activities keep me busy, along with flower gardening, creating silk floral arrangements, and working out at the gym. I am also a Skin Care and Image Consultant, and I enjoy helping women to enhance their appearance.
I have no intention of slowing down for the next 45 years either! I’ll see you at that reunion! After all we’re not getting older, we’re just getting better!
San Antonio, TX 78201 (210) 738-0449 Pselden830@att.net
Update 2003: After graduation I atended Sacred Heart Dominican College, received BS in nursing. Married Pete Jones, seven children. Divorced in 1989, married Laurence Selden in 1996. Currently reside in San Antonio. Retired.
711 Littlewood,
Baytown, TX 77521
(281) 427-6493
2110 Spring Creek, College Station, TX 77845
979-693-6940 Rgrayann@aol.com
Entered Texas A&M Corps Of Cadets, College Station, Texas Sept. ’54. (ONE_WAY Corps Trip) Trip home at the Dean’s request, Scholastic dismissal, after fall semester. Went to South Texas Jr. College for 2 years and UH 1 year. Met and married 1st wife. Had 2
(936) 873-3350 raybullock@msn.com
Retired from Postal Service. Spend time at farm in Grimes County and with 5 grandchildren. All are being home schooled! Still have my mother in Baytown. She
P.O. Box 387, Fulton, TX 78358-0387
In 1994 my husband, Hugh, and I retired. He had worked for many years as a credit manager for Texas Instruments, and I had my own word processing business. We moved from Lubbock to Plano to be near our three children: Janice, Charles, and Lynn. Our family now includes four of the “smartest and most adorable grandchildren in the whole world”: Kaelyn (5), Kiera (3), Ryan (3), and Spencer (1), whom we see often.
For the past decade, I have been on a treasure hunt, beginning with the receipt of a small group of letters written by my great great grandfather, John James Giddings, and his five brothers who immigrated to Texas in the mid-1800s. Queries to find more missives followed. These letters, I thought, read like a wild yarn told by a grizzled boatman around a campfire-- tales of Indian warfare, lost fortunes, killer epidemics, saloon shootout, colorful personalities, plotting and scheming. Letter collecting became a joyful obsession as I networked through the family finding people with large bodies of work. Since retirement, Hugh and I have retraced the brothers’ footsteps from their boyhood home at the foot of Moosic Mountain in northeastern Pennsylvania to Texas to Civil War battlefields in northeastern Arkansas to the site of an Apache massacre in Stein’s Peak, New Mexico. We have stalked the brothers in archives, libraries, and courthouses across the state, reconstructing the work they took for granted.
With encouragement from friends to do something with this vast assemblage of letters and information, I started looking for a historian well versed in nineteenth-century Texas history and eventually gained the support of Dr. J.A. Wilson. Doing research under his guidance has given me an appreciation of the breadth, depth, and richness of Texas history. Wilson and I have a manuscript in progress. It is a story about life, its sorrows and laughter, during the era of early statehood, Civil War, and Reconstruction. None of this would be possible, of course, without the support I have received from my family who let me walk in the past while they walk in the present. I’ve also found rewarding my years of working as a volunteer with HOSTS (Help One Student To Succeed), a program of the Plano ISD. In my spare time, I’m usually cross-stitching.
