Classmates - blog
Wallace Klekar
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| Comment: After graduating, I knocked around for a couple of years, I had a good job working at ARADMAC, but decided in 1968 I wanted to join the Marine Corps. I did 2 tours in Vietnam, got out in 1972. I couldn't find a decent job in Corpus, so I moved to Katy. I learned a trade, hanging wallpaper. I did that for 27 years. I got married in 1975, raised 3 children, and got divorced. Since the wallpaper business went by the wayside, I decided to become a realtor. I've been selling homes in Katy and Houston since 1997. |
Bud (Buddy) Landacre
| Comment: I spent my 1st 2 years of HS at Carroll and would have been (maybe) part of the Class of '66 at King had my family not moved to N.C. the summer of '65. I graduated from HS in N.C. in 66, (phew). I joined the Army in'67, went to Nam (like a lot of us did), came back (like a lot of us didn't), went to college, then spent the next 40 yrs. flying airplanes for a living. When I was at Carroll I was kind of like "Toad" in "American Graffitti" (complete with motor scooter) but really thought of myself more as the "Milner" type (complete with Little Deuce Coupe). Now retired, I occasionally get to pat my grandkids on the head and most mornings I wake up, kiss my wife, have a cup o jo, and go out to the garage to play with my hot rods (Just like Milner). Lookin forward to seeing if I remember who I remember at the reunion. |
Tim Laws
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Tim Laws asked the website administrator to add his 'NOW' picture as he looks today. Hope you don't mind Tim but had to add how you looked 'then' in Sam Houston 2nd grade. Tim is in the middle row, 3rd from right side pic. |
Laina Maher (Dean)
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| Comment: Wow, 50 years! Hard to believe because I don't feel that old! Well, I married George in June of '67 and we have 4 great daughters and son in laws and 11 grandchildren! We are blessed to have the whole bunch of us living in San Antonio. That's the big picture and now I'll try to fill in details. We moved to Baytown, TX after marriage where George finished college commuting to Lamar U in Beaumont,TX. I worked and we quickly began a family, having our first girl 1 year and 1 month later. He began his career in Nacogdoches, TX then Uvalde, TX, Houston and finally settling in San Antonio in 1973 where we raised our family and for most of the time I was allowed to be a stay at home mom. God was stalking me to come back to the faith of my childhood and in 1974 I gave in and have striven to walk the path He had chosen for me. Faith and family has been the most important thing to both of us. We have taught Sunday School and Precept Bible studies for years and then I wrote a Bible study for the Book Footsteps of the Messiah with another lady. If you are interested go to ariel.org. I know from looking back at the writings from some of you in my annual that it would seem an improbable path going from wild child to a Christian trying desperately to live for the Lord. That would be the most important part of my life, a Christian, a wife, a mother and an occasional seller of Essential Oils. :) I'm looking forward to seeing so many of ya'll that I'm seeing on the list and so hope many more of you come! |
Jill McLain (Hurwitz)
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I’m sorry that I will be unable to attend the reunion, due to a prior commitment. I live in Austin with my husband, Jerry, a black lab and a black and white cat. Three of our five daughters, their husbands, and 6 of our nine grandchildren also live here, keeping us happily busy with family. We have one daughter/spouse and granddaughter living in New York City, and another daughter/spouse and 2 granddaughters on the west coast in Cupertino. I still work part time for a company where I have spend the last 30 years, and in my free time, when I am not spending time with the family, my hobbies include golf and photography, neither of which have I mastered. Although I no longer have any family in Corpus Christi, we do get there from time to time and drive around to see all the old haunts. I hope everyone has a wonderful time renewing friendships this coming weekend. I applaud the Reunion Team for their untiring work in bringing so many people together for this event. I know it will be a big success and hopefully a stepping stone to others in the future. |
Virginia A. Moore (Moore)
| Comment: Class of 1966 - W.B. Ray |
Debra Stallings (Stallings)
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I must admit my life has been full of adventure with some wonderful highs and the normal curve balls that are just part of life. I became a friend of Bill Wilson in 1988, and my life took a magnificent turn for the better. I did not have children, so I took on some rather different jobs in my earlier life such as working offshore on a drilling rig in Alaska, serving as the exercise director at a vegetarian health spa in Cuernavaca, Mexico, working as an able-bodied seaman on a supply boat in the Gulf of Mexico, teaching and coaching at King High School for 2 years (but I graduated from Ray), and most recently as a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Post Office in Conroe, TX. I have been married, more times that I care to admit. So my marriages and jobs have something in common—neither ever lasted more than about five years! After retiring from the Postal Service, I signed up for the Master Gardener course in 2004 at Montgomery County AgriLife Extension Service (part of Texas A&M). I found my true heart’s desire as a Master Gardener, not only learning all about plants, how to grow and care for them, how to propagate them, and how to diagnose problems, but also sharing this information with new MG interns and the community. I volunteer at “Extension” throughout the week. My life is full of joy with the fellowship of many good gardening friends as well as playing with plants in my own gardens at home. Lately, the challenge is dividing my time between Master Gardener work and working with this fabulous committee for our RKC 50th Reunion of the class of 1966, which I might add has been a true blessing (most of the time, HA!). Life has been quite a journey. So when I leave this life, hopefully by just keeling over in my flower bed, I’ll be saying, “Wow, what a ride!!!”. And I wouldn’t change a single thing. Debra Stallings |
Linda Steele (Steele)
| Comment: So sorry I am not there to visit with all of you. I already had a commitment I didn't feel like I could get out of. I am a retired teacher as of this year, 34 years in Education, and 24 with Fort Bend ISD in Sugarland, Texas. My daughter, Debra, and her husband, Wayne, gave me my first grandbaby this May. So, I retired at just the right time. Having so much fun watching Clara grow! What a joy to have grandchildren! |