I am grateful that I’m still in fairly good health and see some of my classmates from time to time. I love you. I am close to my 3 sons, Thomas, Tim & Stephen and enjoy Mackenzie, my little grand daughter.
2004 Update; My three sons and 2 brothers are all near me. Only Stephen is married. He and his wife Lisa are parents to McKenzie, who will be 12 this year.
I married Walter Jasper of the class of ‘52. We enjoyed 39 years together until his death in 1994. We raised two daughters, Debra and Laurel. Debra is a secretary in the Library at Robert E. Lee. Laurel is a Dental Assistant and works for an Orthodontist. My grandchildren are Erin, Staci, Amber and Corey. Erin is a Dental Hygienist. She and her husband, Ben Petty, live in College Station and she works for a dentist in Bryan. Staci is working on a Social Service Degree and substitute teaches at local Baytown schools. She married Wayne Wise and they are expecting their first child (my first great grandchild in April). Amber is a sophomore at Sterling. She plays flute in the band and has been accepted as a member of the Spirit of American National Honor Band. She will tour Europe this July with the band, which will perform in several countries. Corey is in the 7th grade at Gentry Middle School. He plays saxophone in the Gentry Band. Amber and Corey are straight A students and take advanced courses.
I started working at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital in 1956 as an Admitting Clerk. Later I returned to work in the Medical Record Department in 1963. 1 was promoted to Director of the Department in 1965 and earned my degree as a Registered Health Information Technician in 1967. I worked there for 38 years and
It will be so good to see many of our classmates at the reunion. 1954 was such a good year.
In 1954 Ed Pillow and I were so anxious to get away from Baytown that we joined the Army planning on becoming airborne rangers. After digging foxholes in California in December, I realized the folly of my decision. I became a x-ray technician at the hospital in Fort Bragg North Carolina while Ed got into the Army band at Fort Gordon Georgia. After two years and nine months (to the day) I was eager to return to Baytown and attend Lee College on the GI Bill. I got married in 1957, graduated from Lee and became a father, James, in 1959. I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1961 and again in 1965 with degrees in chemistry (BS and Ph.D.). Mrs. Gerber would have been amazed. I joined the chemistry faculty at Lamar University in 1965 and have been there ever since,
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1994; After graduation, I attended Sam Houston University in Huntsville, TX. I joined the US Navy in 1955. Have been married to Barbara Long since 1960 and have one son and no grandchildren. Attended Houston Baptist University in 1968. Worked for Cameron Iron Works as Planning Coordinator for the Maintenance Department.
Married 37 years. Two children Three grandchildren.
IN 1989: After high school I spent 4 years in the Strategic Air Command (USAF) where I was an instrument specialist. Duty included Abilene, TX, Guam, Alaska and IL. Married Ola Jean Davidson, June 14, 1958. Our daughter Jennifer was born in
Right out of high school, I attended North Texas State University and received a teacher’s
degree in 1957. Married Carl Strickland in 1958. We enjoyed raising 4 sons. After 12 years at home, I went back to teaching (first
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I retired from teaching (and Carl from Exxon) in 1990. Since then, we have enjoyed traveling all over the world. We built our dream home in New Braunfels, always one of our favorite parts of Texas. We sent mother (Margaret Elms) on ahead of us but she died in New Braunfels in October of 1995, two months before we ourselves moved there. We brought Daddy (Roy Elms) with us to New Braunfels but he died in March of 1998.
We are very proud of our sons, our 4 wonderful daughters-in-law, and our 14 grandchildren. Life has been good and we continue to travel often. (Just got back (2004) from Machu Picchu, Peru.) We also spend time in our Medina River cabin but mainly we do grand parenting duties! We love living in New Braunfels and we love having visitors!
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Joe Dunn - known now as "Papaw" to his five grandchildren, as well as everyone else - lives on Lake Livingston with his wife Beth. Both are now retired, but busier than ever keeping up with the activities of five active grandchildren, travel, and hosting weekends of skiing, fishing, and Joe's Famous BBQ for family and friends.
In 1955 he began a 16 year career with the Sherwin Williams Company. He initially worked in Baytown, transferring to Houston, and then returning to Baytown in 1964 to manage the Baytown store. 1981 proved a year of transition; leaving Sherwin Williams to begin a new career in wholesale flooring with Readers Wholesale; the dissolution of his 15 year marriage; and a
In 1983, he remarried (a lovely nurse from Fort Worth) and was soon on to his true life's work: grandfather. Joe's daughter Kim uses her accounting degree part time, while working full time as mother of two. His daughter Debbie does criminal justice work for the county as well as keeping up with one son. And his step daughter Carla, left her finance career behind to stay home with her two children.
These five grandones are the light of Joe's life ...and he and Beth are very active in all their lives...going from sporting events, to band concerts, to academic completions... "We are very lucky to have so much fun with our family".
P.S. Gone back to work one day a week . Working with my dealer in the Beaumont area.