Dear Alumni,

The reunion elicited so many responses both from those who attended and those who could not, this particular newsletter is the longest ever. I hope you read all the way to the end as there is absolutely nothing I could bear not to share with everyone. Please do keep sending photographs, stories and emails to share. They are so looked forward to by our class members.

One common theme in discussions and emails concerns meeting informally more often than every five years. Discussions are now open on this subject and your input is incouraged. I will post replies and thoughts and planned events in the newsletters. - Sandra, the Editor.

I thought it was a wonderful 2 evenings. We need to meet annually as we become more “ senior”! Thanks to all of you for sharing your very valuable time, talents, and treasures! Love to all.

Stevie

Hi Class,

Once a month several of the AHS classes - I think the late 1950s and early ‘60s - meet at noon the second Saturday of every month at Angelo’s Pizza Steak & Spaghetti House at 1101 E. Pioneer Parkway - just east of Collins Street. The phone number is 817-274-7242.

I just called the restaurant and spoke with a gentleman by the name of Don King. He first told me that there were no high school classes meeting there. Then finally it dawned on him that I was referring to the “senior citizens” who meet there. What a bummer! I had to laugh. He did admit he was about their age, and that they all act like they are in their 20’s when they get together, but the words “high school” threw him. He looks forward to our coming. Don said the fewest number had been 5 people, the most 30. The average is 10-30 people. He said there would be a lot for the holidays.

The next gathering there would be Saturday, December 9th. I will not be able to attend. At 10:30 A.M. I will be catching a limousine headed for Neiman’ s in downtown Dallas for a birthday party for a friend. I do plan to make it to Angelo’ s for the Saturday, January 12, 2008 gathering. If anyone can go to the December one, please report your findings! Nelson Parker was the one who told me about it when I ran into him at Souper Salad!

Take care! Love to you all,

Kay King

I’m all for the annual meetings! Something casual, laid back...meet at a restaurant and everyone pay their own way, kind of like we did Friday night.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone,

Pat Walden Myrick

I wanted to be at the weekend’s reunion activities, but, my health just did not cooperate. I pray I will be around to celebrate our 50th in five years. I also want to be a part of the planning for the 50th if possible. Our years together are so valuable, the reunions are blasts but our ‘family’ of 1962 members and memories are priceless. I was there in spirit, even could not attend.

I really like the idea of some of us single alumni getting together the first time as a group in order to ‘ mingle’ and see what each of us have been doing and sort of updating ourselves and all decide about further meetings. Before that can happen, it would probably be good to bring up the idea in the next newsletter just to see if anyone is even interested in the idea. Who knows??? Never know unless we throw the subject around and get some kind of feedback. Like me, it is hard to take that first step in this personal part of our lives. It has been a long time since I even thought about venturing into the ‘ singles world.’

Jan Gaworski Harris

Just got a call from the Frog (Mr. Booher) and he said Mr. Webb moved to South Carolina today to be close to his daughter so he would have someone to help him. What a nice guy and he really did enjoy coming to our reunion, which is the best class ever from AHS.

Mr. John Webb
214 Horse Head Point Drive
Seneca, SC 29672
864-653-9121

This just in from Sonny Wooten:

These were taken in China at the Terra-cotta museum. This was really a trip of a lifetime - three weeks non stop, with stops all over China from the Great Wall to Hong Kong.

sonny

Hey Guys,

Ray Johnson just told me about the AHS website. Someone has done a really good job on the pictures. Just wonderful stepping back in time. I meant to attend this last reunion but got wrapped up in vacation planning and it was here and gone before I knew it. I would have loved to hear everyone’s story about what they have done since graduation.

I got my private pilot’s license the January after graduation and enjoyed flying all over the country for a number of years. I served in the Navy from ‘64 to ‘68 and did two Vietnam cruises on Yankee Station as a meteorologists aboard Kitty Hawk CVA 63. In ‘79 and ‘80 I did a stint as a policeman for the city of Irving. I retired from Bell Helicopter in 2001 as a military information systems specialist. Judy Young Alcedo moved into Logistics Integration and we worked together for a little over a year before she fell ill. She was a wonderful woman who died far too soon. She was greatly missed and I am still melancholy to think she is no longer here with us. The day after I retired I realized that was the way I was intended to live all along. I don’t know who talked me into believing that we were supposed to work all those years but they wrong, big time. After retiring I bought a place on Lake Amon Carter just south of Bowie and have really loved it up here. I became engaged six months ago and will soon have the place up for sale and am moving back to the metroplex. After the marriage we will be settling in Rockwall and are currently looking at Chandler’s Landing on Ray Hubbard.

It is very saddening to read the list of those who have passed on. My first real date was with Mary Lou Goldner to a sock hop at the country club in the sixth grade. It seems only yesterday that Ricky Valentine and I were playing with the trains in his garage, that Glenda Heath was helping me with homework on the bus ride home from school, that John Garner and I were playing Little League ball or over at his house picking on his sister, that Johnny Johnson and I were tearing up the streets of Arlington on my old ‘53 650 Triumph motorcycle, that Nancy Love and I were swapping gossip in study hall. What a privilege to have known them all.

Congratulations on a great site and if I run into anyone on the list I will tell them about it.

Don Fitzgerald

ANOTHER GRADUATION - 45 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST ONE! by Sandra Brown Wellborn

After lazing around for two years following the demise of my publishing company, I decided I needed to get back in the working world and decided on real estate - a natural considering my intersts and background. Once upon a time when I was a stock broker with A.G. Edwards, I wrote a series of articles for the Gannett Newspapers on Real Estate Developments and discovered I had a built-in love and knack for analysing real estate and matching needs with product. Since retirement was not something I was enjoying. I contacted Jane Favor who owns TrainAgents.com - an internet based Real Estate School, signed up, took the required hours and passed the tests.

After interviewing with several firms and speaking with Eddy Bost Branch and Pat Walden Myrick among others, I chose to affiliate with the Arlington Office of Ebby Halliday Real Estate, Inc., the most widely known and recognized regional firm around.

Anyway, I just wanted to share my excitement about my news and to ask if there are classmates I can add to my preferred vendor list for home buyers and sellers. Steve East is already on that list with his superb appraiser skills and reputation as well as Pat Myrick with Home Team Mortgage who has an outstanding reputation and is just flat fun to be around.

(A letter from Sumi)Dear Members of Class of ‘62:

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you all at the reunion. One year in Arlington 45 years ago is one of the most precious time of my life, and I was very happy to share our memories and lasting friendship at the reunion.

After the reunion, on Sunday night I flew from DFW to Las Vegas for my first visit there. I met my friend from Florida at Las Vegas Airport at 01:00 because of the 40 minutes delay of the flight. Casino result is miserable. I played roulette.

I never won the game at all and lost $30 in 10 minutes. I think I have neither talent nor luck on the game. Beef steak and wine we had at The Imperial Grill (north of Treasury Island at Las Vegas) was really delicious. We visited Zion, Bryce Canyon and Grand Canyon. From Grand Canyon, we could see the fire in California. At the Grand Canyon, we walked down for one hour on the Bright Angel Trail. I found and bought Jalapeno jelly at a restaurant in Cameron which is between the Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon. After Grand Canyon, we tried to visit the Sky Walk which is 5 hours drive from the Grand Canyon, but we could get the entrance at 4:30, too late to get there in time. The last part of the way to the Sky Walk is unpaved and muddy and dusty---horrible. On the way to the Sky Walk, we drove on Route 66 for a while. Near Las Vegas, we saw Hoover Dam in the dusk and finally returned to Las Vegas. We thoroughly enjoyed vast and spacious Arizona.

Tokyo area was visited by a typhoon when the plane was approaching Tokyo, much rainfall and strong wind. I was really relieved and happy to be alive when the pilot made a successful landing.

The trip to US this time was really full of excitements, the 45th Reunion, seeing old but beautiful classmates and trip to Las Vegas and Grand Canyon; and I thank you for all you have done for me.

I attach some pictures.

Sumiko NAGASHIMA
Tel & Fax: 0422-56-3776

I received some really disturbing emails, and am sure you will all understand why I share them. May the parties involved all be forgiven - including me. Enjoy! (Sandra, Newsletter Editor)

To all AHS Classmates of Sonny Wooten:

I have been asked to bring you an update on Sonny, as he is currently in a situation where he cannot respond or attend any reunion. I have known Sonny for over 60 years. In fact his Dad and my Mother dated in High School. We lived across the street from each other on Southwood Street in Arlington. We both attended AHS and I graduated in 1958. He was the best man at my wedding.

Now something about Sonny you don’t know. Only because I was in Law Enforcement was I able to gain access to Sonny’s secret life. Sonny has been a confidential informant for the FBI for many years. If any of you have been arrested over the years it probably was because of Sonny. Sonny worked at GM early on but advanced rapidly due to his ability to “snitch” on his superiors who were dirty. He branched out into private business and that is when he started making big money. Sonny was being funded by the FBI to entrap various business partners in illegal activity. Sonny always had a “deal” going on the side and he was using the unlimited funds provided to him by the FEDS.

Now the reason Sonny cannot attend is that recently a contract has been put out on him and he has been placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program. You might say he is one up on Kay King. Instead of riding in a limo to Neiman’s. He is flying in a private Lear Jet to an undisclosed location where the beach is white, the water is blue green, and the food is outstanding.

Just thought you needed to know this since Sonny was so well loved and thought of by his fellow classmates.

Dwight Crawford

Sanger, Texas

Now which beach is that?! I wonder if that dang limo can do a wheelie of a U-Turn and risk getting salt up its...as it lands itself on one of those fine beaches like Sonny likes. So that lucky ol’ Son likes to bask in the sun.... Now why did Mr. Webb suddenly skip out on us!? What web did he weave and to whom did he inform what !!? We all may be in deep... That limo may have a waiting list to get us all out of Dodge....

Ha!!! I always suspected as much. What a friend you are, Dwight, to confirm it!

DeeDee

Beverley, part of it is true, Dwight did live across the street on Southwood and my dad and his mom did date in high school and Dwight has been a law man for years and now he enjoys writing stories and has a lot in the Denton papers. We were kidding with Kay and her limo. I thought he did a great job.

and a special thanks to Kay K. for not blowing my cover while I was gone. When I came back thru customs from our Chine trip, it was smoooth.

Sonny

About my brother, Ricky Curtis, who also graduated in 1962:

My wonderful brother, Richard Lynn Curtis.
Lovingly referred to as Rickey.
He’s gotten to be more like a teady bear.
And I love teady bears.

Over the years, Rick has been a photographer with his own business, and then a land surveyor.

If there is something about the computer he doesn’t know, I would be surprised.

He has a survey crew that takes all the messurements and he works his wonders on the computer and prints out all the data needed.

Just think of all those beautiful large printed survey maps.

The next photos are of people from “back then” that were - and still are - important to me. Fredda.