briefpersonalgreetingtoyourclassmates
Brief Personal Greeting to Your Classmates
Email your brief greeting and I'll post it. Send it to: davidmc41@uwmail.com
Hi Classmates, we send you our greetings and our very best wishes for your success in the past and your prosperity in the future.
Please join with us and at least say "hello" and briefly say what you've done for the last 50 years.
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Richard Clark: Hi all of you HHS 1959 "HOUNDS." What have all of you classmates of the best class Handley High ever had been doing for the last 50 years? We really need to get together and discuss how we have missed each other during those years. If your life has been anything like mine, then you have been spending most of your time raising a family and taking care of their needs. But now most of us are retired, and we really don't have a good excuse for not coming together for a nice long talk.
Marsha and I got married on August 23, 1962, during my junior year at Abilene Christian College. I graduated the next year with a Teaching Certificate and began my teaching career. My teaching career lasted for 35 years and is actually still continuing as I still work as a substitute teacher. Thirty-one of those years were in the Fort Worth Independent School District. I retired in 1999 and have been subbing ever since. Twenty years after graduating from college I earned a Master's degree in Administration and spent a couple years as a vice-principal. During seventeen summers, holidays, and weekends, I drove a charter bus many a mile over the U. S. and parts of Canada. Marsha and I have two daughters and four granddaughters. Our retirement plans include traveling in our RV and seeing as much of the USA as we can. Won't it be grand to get to see each other again at our 50th REUNION? And we should all remember: "All For One and One For All."
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Clayton & Jane Bratcher: Hello, classmates. We're looking forward to getting back together with you for our 50th reunion and remembering with you the good times we had. We were married a year after graduating from high school. Clayton was drafted into the army in 1965 for two years and sent to Vietnam. Clayton retired from his job with the Fort Worth Water Department as Superintendent of Operations and Maintenance after 29 years. We moved to a farm in Iredell, TX to raise cattle. We've been doing that for the last 15 years. Jane worked for 25 years for the General Services Administration and retired to the cattle business with Clayton.
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David McConnell: Hello everyone. I'm looking forward to seeing each of you at the 50th HHS Class of 1959 reunion. After grauation from Arlington State I entered the Army. Upon being discharged from the Army I was unable to locate employment suitable to my training--as a trained killer, so I decided to go to graduate school at TCU. It was just as well, working as a killer didn't really match my temperament anyway.
Eventually, through trial and error I found my way to employment with a Navy laboratory. I retired from a career as a systems engineer for the U.S. Navy on 31 Dec 2004 and moved from Fredericksburg, VA where we lived for about 35 years back to Texas. We now live in Aledo, Texas. I love being retired. I enjoy visiting with old classmates. If you're in the area, please give me a call and plan on dropping by for a visit. I'd love to visit with you.
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Linda & Jamey Duncan: We have retired to the country after living in Handley and raising our two sons there. We now are in Lone Camp which is half way between Santo and Palo Pinto. Jamey is still driving a truck, and we are still working on our house--now in our 7th year. We hope to finish one of these days. We have two sons and five grandkids that are the greatest. We love people to come see us so y'all come.
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Bill & Pat Rennels: I retired from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (M.K.T.) railroad in November 2002. Pat retired from the Euless Police Department in February 2003. We lived in Fort Worth from the time we married (November 1960) until we moved to Euless in November 1966. We lived in the same home until July 2006. We are enjoying traveling as often as possible.
We have one daughter, Tami Long. She earned her master's degree in social work and, for the past ten years, has been an investigator for the Texas Child Protective Service. Her daughter, Haylee is a senior at U. T. Arlington this year. She is also majoring in social work and will soon intern with her mother. Our grandson, Hayden, is a senior at Arlington High School. Our son-in-law, Mark, has been with Lockheed Martin for over twenty years and is an avid golfer. Life has been good to us. God has blessed us greatly and, we are as happy as if we had good sense. We are looking forward to our '50th reunion next year.
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Doris (Richardson) Raymond: I went to work for the Federal Housing Administration in 1960. I met Eddy through his mother who was one of my co-workers. We married in 1964. Eddy went to work for the U. S. Public Health Hospital in 1965 and later went to work for the General Services Administration. Our son, Stephen, was born in 1968. I stayed home with him for a few years before returning to work at FHA/HUD. Eddy retired in March 1997 and I retired in August 1997 from our government jobs. We have traveled quite a bit over the years and have been on some very interesting trips. We love being retired, and we are looking forward to the reunion.
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Ann (Briley) Weiss: Our family moved to Handley in October of the 9th grade to a house near the little park past the Handley football field. My life since high school has largely centered on being a career educator.
I had the great joy and surprise of being selected the TSTA 1990 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year, and it was the highlight of my life, well, next to my two children and three grandchildren. I enjoyed every day of my career. There were very few days that did not see me excited to get to school. I was an elementary teacher for 20 years, a consultant at Region 4 for 2 years, and then Director of Advanced Academics in the Central Office for 11 years. The most enjoyable were the classroom years. I did a bit of college teaching at Wharton County Junior College and at the University of St. Thomas during summers.
I have two splendid children and three precious grandchildren. My son, Christopher, is a professor at Columbia University and my daughter, Robyn, and her husband are both (starving) stage actors in New York City. Chris has a daughter, Lilly, who will be five in September and a son, Henry, who is two weeks old. Robyn has a daughter, Anya, who was four in February.
I hope to see you at our fiftieth reunion. Can you believe it! It seems like only a few years ago....
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Don Vandiver: Sue and I are wrapping up a 3-year tour of Europe, Russia, and Morocco. We are currently in Hamburg preparing for a cruise back to the US at the end of August. Since leaving HHS, I completed the BBA at the University of Texas in 1966. From 1967 to 1978 I worked for the Army and Air Force PX. After stints in Vietnam (one year) and Thailand (two years), I was manager of long range planning and management information systems in Dallas.
From 1978 to 1980 I worked as Director of Inventory Management for Consumers Distributing in New Jersey. From 1980 to 1985 I was Director of Merchandising Systems for Best Products in Richmond, VA. From 1985 to 2002 I worked as Director of Headquarters and Store Systems for Stop & Shop Supermarkets. Then from 2002 to 2003 I worked as Vice President of Strategic Planning and Advanced Technologies for Ahold USA Information Services in Greenville, South Carolina. In 2004 I retired and my wife Sue and I began the tour of Europe. Our tentative plans are to tour Central and South America next, so, unfortunately, we probably won't be in the US for the reunion. We'll keep you posted on any change of plans.
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Tommy Gwin: Hi Classmates. I'm still alive and kicking. Looking forward to getting back in touch with everybody at the reunion. I'm retired, living in Azle, and enjoying riding my motorcycle. I would like to hear from everyone.
My number is in the address list posted on this web site. When you call, please leave a message if there is no answer and I'll call you back since I'm sometimes not able to answer at the moment of a call.
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There you have it! We have teachers, a doctor of philosophy, superintendents, railroad men, administrators, and trained killers....
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