2226 New Jersey
Baytown, TX 77520
(281) 428-1668
Updated 2003:Married to Gene Hinson for 48 years and we have 2 wonderful daughters, Brenda Vojacek and Cheryl Hinson. Five grandchildren: Jason Jeremy, Jerrell, Stephanie and Jamie. Two great-grandchildren, Nathan and Jesse.
I have always worked. 20 years for Olin, three years with DPS in Austin, three years for Brown & Root. I have worked at the San Jacinto College North Campus for 18 years. I plan to retire in 2004 and enjoy doing other things.
Crockett TX 75835 (936) 544-5988
bsarver@hcecwildblue.com
Graduated from UT with a BS-ChemE in 1958. Worked in the petrochemical industry and retired from Mobil Chemical in 1995. Lived in Nederland, TX, Odessa, TX, Longmeadow, MA, Lisle, IL, Franklin Lakes, NJ, and back to Houston, TX. Full-time rancher now, near Crockett. Married Betty Marie Wilson (Lee ‘55).
Four children: George, a "rocket scientist" with NASA in CA; Ron, an computer software consultant in Austin; Kimberly, an office manager in Baytown, and Pamela, doctor of pharmacy in NC. Four grandchildren: Stephen and David in CA, and Spencer and Lindsey in NC
4141 N. Braeswood #29
Houston, TX 77530
(713) 667-4076
2004: Graduated from Texas Christian University in 1957 with a teaching degree and a MRS. Met and married Roy Cummins, a Lamar Redskin. In
137 County Road 6491
Dayton, TX 77535
No Address
Roy retired from The Upjohn Company in 1994 and is one of those men that never gets bored. Thank goodness. He tried the golf repair business for a while and for the past five years he has had a photography business. No studio, just word of mouth and stays the right amount of busy. We both stay a little overly involved in church and other activities enough that we feel like we are pushed most of the time, but have decided that's better than the couch potato route.
As for me, I taught some, sold a little real estate, some office work, but for the most part I have had a career of homemaker. I have loved being a wife and mother and still enjoy the cooking and working in the yard.
As for the moving about, yes, we still do that. The week between Christmas and New Years is always a dangerous time because we find ourselves driving around looking at property and dreaming up a new house or situation. I'm sure one of my parents had a little gypsy blood in them and I got a full dose. As I write, I am checking the website for real estate. We do feel limited because we know we need to stay near the children for our senior years.
Wish we could get a transfer so we could have a good reason for moving again.
For those that remember the friendship that Tobye and I shared, we still get together every month or so for dinner and a movie with our husbands.
Look forward to seeing all of you in June.
rvgrv@yahoo.com
After graduation, I went to Lee College and Houston Business College. Then I went to work in the Accounting and Engineering Dept. for Ethyl Corp. For the past 30 years I have been a housewife.
I have two children (boy & girl). Both of them are employed with Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District.
My husband (Roy) is retired from Ethyl Corp. I am active with Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church, Baytown Youth Fair and Rodeo Assn., 4-H Leader for 30 years, and the Bayshore Fine Rides Antique Car Club here in Baytown.
Can you believe it is 2004 and we are having a 50th Class Reunion. I can't believe it, but my body does. It refuses to keep acting like it did when I was 18 years old. I have had an interesting life to say the least. Never thought I would be living in West Texas, home of the Lubbock High Westerners......who defeated Robert E. Lee in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas for two years in a row. We became friends with their quarterback, Jim Haney. He and his wife do not live here anymore, but they were the first couple accepted married at SMU Athletic Dept.
After working at First National Bank in Dallas in the Trust Department, I was hired by Sun Oil Company, who Mike worked for in the summers in Baytown before attending SMU and 1st year afterwards. I loved Sun Oil Company and worked in downtown Dallas before there was such a thing as a Mall. Actually, Dallas opened their first mall, the South Park Mall right before we moved to Lubbock.
After moving to Lubbock, I did not have to work and had two baby girls, so precious. They looked like little Hensley babies.....so my Uncle Merritt said. All Woodruff babies had dark brown eyes and dark hair (like me)....but Michelle and Charla had that beautiful blonde hair like Michael and Sherwood. My grandbabies have looked like the blonde babies also. I have a granddaughter Elissa (named after the sailing ship in Galveston) 14 years old and now Charla has married a guy from Holland, Matthijs. So I have a new grandbaby Marcus Skye Esser. He is absolutely precious, born on Barbara Boudloche's birthday; but Elissa and I have always had a special bond. I certainly hope to have that same kind of bond with him. Mike and I were married from June 1955 to October 1995. 40 years. After Michelle died I could not handle living in the house we built and the girls grew up in. I learned the hard way how people grieve in much different ways. There is not a set way to grieve or get over something like "losing a child".....there will always be a hole in my heart. Michelle was always a "handful" being hyper active; but I lost two babies before I had her and there will never be a day I don't think of her. She is buried here in Lubbock and maybe that is why I want to be here. Who knows, only God. I hope all of you have some relationship with God. (Just saw the Passion two days ago.) Golly, how it made me remember my Sunday School Teachers who would cry when they talked about Christ being crucified. One of my teachers was Mrs. Lowe from Baytown Jr. High. Do yall remember her. I think I am shorter than she was now. I have already shrunk two inches.
Not fair.....but who said life was fair. I wanted to be tall like Zona Paul. But that was not in the cards. I always told my girls when they would complain about fairness, that if life was fair......I would be tall. And then we would laugh and laugh.
I was active in First Christian Church both in Dallas and Lubbock....and still am. I also was very active in PTA, what Mom wasn't? I joined a social sorority Beta Sigma Phi before Michelle was born; am still active in that. Also joined Sweet Adelines and became so active in that it "wore me out". However I did love it....my daughter, Charla is now a Queen of Harmony and serves on the International Faculty of Sweet Adelines, Int. She has traveled the United States serving and teaching.....harmony. Our theme song is "Harmonizing the World"....what a wonderful theme. She has been to New Zealand, Scotland, and going to Holland to teach for a week at Spring Break this year. Their quartet served as "Headline Act" on a cruise ship to the Bahamas. I served as President of our Lubbock SA chapter four different years, Show Chairman, Ad Sales (remember our ad sales, Kay Ellen? for our Robert E. Lee paper), and Music Chairman a lot of years. Competed in a quartet for 8 different years.....so much learning. Mrs. Corabel Buelow presented my quartet with our award when we first competed. How life surprises us. Corabel was a Sweet Adeline also.....and we traveled all over the United States going to International Contests. So many stories about those travels.....so much fun. I don't do that anymore, I live my Sweet Adeline life through Charla now. I am a Queen Mom for RUMORS, her quartet. They have recorded CD's and are so entertaining it is incredible. Very proud Mom here. I even have a pin saying "Queen Mom"....very sweet
After my second husband, David Foster, a pharmacist....died, I chose to stay in Lubbock. It is easier to get around in and I have so many friends I don't want to leave. I have a lovely home and I love to entertain. I have two uncles left from my family, and they both live in Dallas. They are more like brothers than uncles. I am very close to them.
Love to play bridge, love yard work, believe it or not, I even love cleaning house. I have a fat cat, Sweetie......and a beautiful while/caramel cocker spaniel, my constant companion....her name is Sugar Baby and we are sorta inseparable. I am going to Baltimore this week and I wish I could take her. Then another friend and I are going to Elko, Nevada next week. I am thinking of working part time to help with my travels, and my medications......ain't that medicine stuff awful. I got to do that Parachute thing behind a boat on the Disney Island. At age 68 I think it is practically a miracle to still be able to do something like that. We always loved water skiing and snow skiing and I have made myself try to learn computers. I still consider myself a novice, but not out of touch with the computer world.
I am really looking forward to our 50th Reunion. I hope that as many as possible will come to our reunion. And I hope that we will let Asa Ray and Georgann know how much we appreciate their hard work and time spent on our Web Site.....I brag on it to all my friends here in Lubbock. I went to visit Georgann & Asa Ray last Mother's Day. Most of the people I know here did not necessarily go to big high schools like ours. We were so fortunate to live in Baytown when we did. It was so beautiful and not spoiled by environment. I loved everything about Baytown. We need to always count our blessings. So many people don't.....I hope to "think young" all of my life. Hey, Bobbie Jean Pipkin, I still have 15 acres in Bristol, Texas. I may move there someday, who knows. Don Meiers, I remember a birthday party at your beach house near Kemah, and a yacht ride on Joan Franklin's birthday. I never had a birthday party or a Christmas tree all the time I was growing up..... So perhaps that explains why I always have a Christmas Coffee to make up for all those parties I missed. My best to all of you, and hope to stay in touch with more of you after the reunion.
Thanks to all of you who get to work on the reunions, I know Joy Ewing does so much and Anita.....thank you, thank you. I think we should get to start counting backwards after we get to 50 years. I can hardly think "seventy" much less say it. Hope to see you very, very soon. Sandra Secrest
Please email me if you are not coming to the reunion and we can visit that way. SAHEN915@aol.com