Dennis McGuire McGuire

Annual ($20 Individual; $30 Household if both are Westchester Alumni)

French Club in senior year; attended many football games at Darrell Tully Stadium. My cousins went to Odessa Permian High School during the years I was at Westchester. They were used to their team being State championships; I was not. I was extremely proud of our band and our drill team, who, if you remember, performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in November 1970, representing Westchester as the first school from the Spring Branch Independent School District to be invited there. Take that, Memorial, Stratford!!

Married Carol Watson, class of 1974, on August 27, 1977, in Houston. Moved to Jackson, Wyoming in 1983, then to Ruidoso, New Mexico in 1985. Carol and I split up in 1987, sad to say, one of the great mistakes of my adult life, but stayed close friends until the time of her unexpected death, at the end of January 1998. She was one of the two great loves of my life. How lucky to have been so blessed twice. Life has been a roller coaster ever since, and I am currently back in Houston.

I loved our high school band and drill team and football team and how well I remember our UNDEFEATED season in my senior year, 1971-72, as we won the District 16-4A championship and went to Kyle Field on the A&M campus, only to be flattened by Killeen. How I hate them to this day! It happened again the next year, too! Oh, well. I loved high school. Dreaded graduating.
Admired and respected Dave Figari and Oscar Cripps throughout my life.