Good Day, Everyone!

This newsletter is longer than usual as I wanted to include as many items as possible sent in since the last newsletter – way too long ago. Expect more newsletters more often in 2009!

On a personal note, my new phone number is: 817-845-1251. None of my old numbers are valid any longer.

As usual, I ask for your help. Send photos, send news, send anything!
Sandra Brown Wellborn

The following information was sent from Judy East:

One of the most interesting sites I have ever seen. Just put your mouse on a city and the newspaper headlines pop up on the right. Double click and the page gets larger....

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Also, if you look at the European papers, the far left side of Germany will pop up as The Stars & Stripes (European edition, of course). This site changes everyday with the publication of new editions of the paper.

Fellow Colts,

I finally made my “dream trip” to Egypt in December, 2008. It was even better that I expected! Saw and did everything I could in 17 days...rode a camel twice, went up in a hot air balloon over the Valley of the Kings, took two curses – one on Lake Nasser and one on the Nile – rode in a felucca (Egyptian sailboat), saw many many many temples, tombs and mummies, also saw synagogues, churches, mosques, citadels and catacombs.

Loved it!

Glenda Stevens
Class of ’62

Laird Pitz sent the following:

Please include the following as my contact information.

Laird J. Pitz
Vice President, Risk Mitigation
Law Department
601 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
North Building, Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20004
Office: 202-347-7819
Cell: 703-217-0880
Fax: 202-347-8237

Sonny Wooten forwarded this note:

Dear friends and students of Paul Booher at AHS in ’62 and ’63

Thank you so very much for the beautiful spray and for the expression of fond memories of him.

It meant a great deal to our family. He loved each of you and he loved the Green and White!

Gratefully
Anna Booher & family

Jane Favor sent this in just after Halloween, but her granddaughter is so cute, it is still appropriate for our newsletter.

Isn’t my youngest grandchild simply PRECIOUS? My only son’s youngest, Miss Phoebe Nadine Lowe!!!!!

The following information was sent from Judy East: (Editor’s note: Ordinarily I do not edit submitted news stories. This is an exception. Randy Paush, the developer of the Alice Project died July 25, 2008 at age 47 of pancreatic cancer. His “Last Lecture“ has become world famous. If you would like to see the lecture and know more about this remarkable person, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/.

I had a very close and dear friend that died of pancreatic cancer. There are many messages on the web about this illness that will touch you including a moving video of Randy Paush in D.C. trying to explain, in his eloquent way, why funding is needed to do research, though this is not why I am sending this.

There is a program at http://www.Alice.org directed to helping students develop better writing skills and more...and it is free!

Even if you are not in the education profession you know someone who is. Please give them this little gift. Take the time to look at what it says and does.

George Garrett send this in for inclusion in our Class CD you can find at our website: http://www.AHS1962.com

As to info regarding myself:

3 years in the Army right out of high school.

Married for 39 years – Two children.

Worked 11 years at LTV as an inspector, then 31 years in the construction/contracting industry around the world.

Now live in Houston, but will retire back to the DFW area in a few years.

(From editor Sandra Brown Wellborn)

This past October, my husband and I explored three islands in the beautiful state of Hawaii. We took over two thousand photos, enjoyed watching people train for the Iron Man Triathalon and a visit to Pearl Harbor, but mostly activities such as this on a Kauai Beach: