Troy 75 - Wright

since we have all left whs there has got to be a movie or book in there somewhere. i came to whitehouse in the 8th grade, im west texas oil field trash you could say. we moved every year of my life until we got to whitehouse and it truly is the only place ive known as home. ive traveled all over the u.s. and other countries and have never heard anyone talk about or have the stories that we all have from growing up in whitehouse. i have told everyone ive ever known how much fun that little town in east tx was. when i left whitehouse i joined the army i gave them 4 years to find a fight, they never did. i was doing a pretty good job finding fights on my on so i got out, went to montana for a while then california then on to australia (backpack and hitchhiked). several months later landed back in california with six dollars in my pocket. worked my way back to montana and eventually back to texas. worked hard, played hard, remarried in 83 and moved to bullard two raise my two boys in that small town atmosphere we had at whitehouse. ive worked for halliburton and fedex, built a few houses along the way , im over the onroad operations for longview and texarkana i office out of tyler. my wife jana is a second grade teacher at bullard. april is doing great living in granbury with our two grandchildren we have tyler who is a junior at texas a&m and tanner will be a junior at bullard high school.

i could go on forever on this part, some of names and places have been changed not to protect the innocent but because of too many trips to coffey city, age and too many miles,

first day at school 8th grade i drove a harley davidson to school i didnt think anything about it everyone else made a big deal of it. (pam)

they took the girls away from us we had all boy classes (8th grade)

windows up in the old school, guys trying to catch flies during class

trying to see who could get the most licks from mrs brown for the whole year (did i win)?

heterosexual: i knew i was one the day i saw judy rocha and cindy mcabe walking down 110 in those cutoff blue jeans.

deryl moore buying redman chewing tobacco from majors store and telling me he would chew all of lunch period, the tree is still there where i sat and watched him turn colors that i never had in my crayola box

i would like to know who in the hell was the first person that ever said put some gravy on those french fries

debby tomlin and cathy dintelman jumping on our trampoline when we had that hse on 110, that was alot for a 14 yr old boy to handle (girls on trampoline, the man show, you guys seen it)

freshman year ag they took me to the lake, stripped me down naked. its hard to get someone to pickup a naked guy in the middle of the night, i walked back i think

backing up in mr neils yard and spinning out in his yard, they had me by next morning, how did they always know ???

sports i dont think i would have even went to school if it were not for sports

the time we had a new guy who grew up in some other country wanted to play football. the first day he asked what was the jock strap used for we told him it was a dust protector for his nose and mouth. of course we showed him how to put it on his head (i know ill go to hell for that one for sure)

playing on varsity my soph year we played troup the year they won state. i was going across the middle and eugene tool hit me harder than ive ever been hit in my life

winning district for the first time in 75, holding whiteoak in whiteoak 1st and goal from their one yard line it still gives me goose bumps when i think about it

car wash to the church, car wash to the church, car wash to the church car wash to the church

how did the place over by track and hagen rd get called the boditty

throwing water balloons off majors store roof on cars at the fourway stop,

a certain person with me and d.moore in his mothers 98 olds thru up right after we had ate at whataburger directly into the aircondition vent i can still see a piece of that tomato hanging out the vent.

i think scott malcolm was always with me on these deals, skiing at night on lake tyler, during the winter we would have all our clothes on and coats and hats and would take off from the bank and ski by people fishing it was so funny unless you fell

wrecks: pam and delphas in front of the church, dan riza left part of leg on blackjack road, melinda brown hit by that truck on 110 late one night, deryl moore, myself, butch hughes,steve kee,scott malcolm, i think thats who was in there rolled his dads truck it ended on it side we were at the marina we all climbed out the top door and was standing on the top side of the truck while everyone came running over there, we were really cool. deryl told them he was just cleaning out the bed of his truck, we pushed it back on the tires and drove it home,

deryl moore again and billy wright wrecked that purple charger in front of pam fieldings hse.

deryl moore getting hypnotized to help him stop stuttering (didnt work)

new teachers asking deryl to read outloud before they knew what the deal was. it was funny to watch the new teacher they didnt know what to do

deryl you know i love ya man

dean cagle and a bunch of them came over from chapel hill to fight we were all meeting at the old mill beside the mercantile (vision ok corral gunfight) the whole thing was over cindy nix

james rawls (my hero) and bob owens

dicky brown trying to burn down the bonfire the night before it was ready and catching himself on fire they put him in the car went back to coffey city for some more beer that didnt work so they let somebody take him to galveston burn center


how i thought school would never end but in reality how fast it went by and the years since