Dean Brown

After high school, I decided to go to Oklahoma State University where I received a B.S. in Marketing. After college, I got a job for a national trading card distributor and have been with the company ever since. Currently, I hold a Regional Manager position. It's a pretty cool job considering I was one of the biggest baseball card collectors in high school. Currently I live in Edmond Oklahoma and moved there right after college.

I still try to get together with my high school buds whenever possible (Scott Troyer, Dale Matney, Joe Hillenburg, and Russ Garringer). We are going to go to Vegas in a few weeks and it should be a blast. Occasionally, I will make pilgrimages to Broken Arrow to play basketball at the BA community center or I will drive around the city and check out the places I hung out at as a kid. Many times I travel to Tulsa from Edmond to see a show at my favorite concert venue 'Cain's Ballroom'.
I am still a music nut and travel everywhere to see my favorite bands. I love going to concerts and have seen everyone form Tammy Wynette and Jerry Lee Lewis to Black Sabbath and Slayer. Recently, I have been travelling a lot overseas and hope to a lot more in the near future.

I had so many memorable moments in high school where do I begin. I think my best moment was I became the High School President. I also remember making the honor roll all four years in high school. I really enjoyed leading the glee club, future Christian athletes, and being the football captain. I just loved being part of all the school activities. Oh, I didn't do any of this stuff. Oh well.


Many stories happened after school hours. I would not want to give out any names because their children might be reading this. I don't want to give them any bad ideas. All, I can say is anyone who I had a chance to hang out with during high school that there was never a dull moment. The things that we came up with were one of a kind and may I say 'LEGENDARY'. Those were good times and it seems that whenever I get together with my high school friends they have another story that I totally forgot about. Maybe it's a good thing that I don't remember.
I guess I could come up with one story that happened in high school. Back in the ancient days, during our high school years, not that many people had computers. My dad worked for a computer company and he had a computer similar to the schools that printed up our report cards. Somehow, I was able to acquire that yellow computer paper that exactly matched our report cards. Being the entrepreneur that I was, I thought I could make a few extra dollars by making fake report cards for my classmates. Man, was I right. I charged 20 bucks a report card and the orders were coming in by the dozens. People from other schools were somehow finding out who I was and calling me to change their 'Ds' on their report card to 'Bs'. I even made fake report cards for some of the smart students in the school. It was hilarious. I had people who made straight 'As' have me change their report card because they had a couple of tardys on their record. I always enjoyed changing the teacher's comments on the report card. I would change "HAS A LACK OF CONCENTRATION" on the report card to "SHOWS GREAT ENTHUSIASM FOR LEARNING" or "HAS EXCEPTIONAL WORK ETHIC". I am glad to have made such a great contribution to our school.

On a serious note, it's great to see familiar names and faces and it's great to see that everyone is doing so well. I really value the friendships I made during high school and throughout my life. You know the question that everyone asks 'If you could go back in time would you change anything?' And the answer would be I would not change it for anything in the world.
I am not good with words so I am going to sum this up with an ending quote from one of my favorite movies.

'I cant feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.'

- Kevin Spacey - THE AMERICAN BEAUTY -