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Judy Maxwell (1971)

No We are not OLD!!!

Age is just a number, and remember we come from a Mom that is about to be 97 years old and still doing good other than her eye sight. So we come from Good Young Genes!!  Besides I have some seen some 30 year olds that look so old!! It depends on your life and how you are living life!!

Let's live Life to the fullest....Be HAPPY each and every day ~ Wake up and see that we are still alive!! I don't understand some that wake up are in a bad mood before their feet hit the floor....Get up singing and being thankful for yet another day.... 

Stay HAPPY And Stay SAFE!!  And if you have not tried Curb side pickup try it you might like it. I know I do.   Even at Tractor Supply yesterday I pulled up called and told them I was there, they brought all my feed and kennel and block right out and loaded it right up. How nice!!

Beth Green (McConnell) (1973)

Could someone please point me to the post about the racial tension, fight, riot that was being researched by a Rice Grad student? I’m having no luck searching for it. Thanks so much. 

Shirley Maxwell (Pace) (1970)

Beth Green McConnell the paper witten by Rice student is in post 4275. The students started ealking about it around post 4249 Hope this help.

Beth Green (McConnell) (1973)

Thanks so much! Time has little meaning these days and I couldn’t remember if it was two years or five years ago.

Patricia Kelly (Sedberry) (1971)

Dear 71 Classmates,
We hope you are all staying safe and healthy at this crazy time in our lives.  We know the Covid19 virus is taking a toll on everyone and hope we can look forward to better times ahead.  
The Class of 71, is looking forward to your 50th Reunion in 2021, we are attempting to update our contact list at this time.   
If you will be kind enough to email samhoustonclass71@gmail.com with the information requested below.  
Name  
Address - Mailing
Address – Email
Phone number – Land line
Phone number- Cell phone

Ladies, please include your maiden name.

By emailing you will save us a lot of work, which will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

Pat Kelly Sedberry
On Behalf of the Reunion Committee

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Pat #4570 ~

Hi, I will send my info to the email address shown. I will also forward the email addresses, and info that we gathered at the last tour of the old building. We had a nice turn out and had sheets for all to sign. You may have them but in case you don't. 

Also let me know if you need any help with the reunion. I will be glad to help out if I can.  I am paid up for the 70's reunion that had to be posponed due to COVID-19 ~ CoronaVirus.....

Looking forward to it!!

Judy

Patricia Kelly (Sedberry) (1971)

Reply 4571

Judy, 

thanks and I will add your name to the list of volunteers for the reunion. I am just updating our contact list at this time.

Pat

Connie Redden (Hopper) (1969)

I have hard cover original Sam Houston HS yearbooks and a few copies. Some have writing in them. Some don’t. Most are in good shape.  If interested PM me. 

$75 for originals
1-65
2-69
2-70
1-71
1-72
2-74
1-87 torn cover 

$50 for copies
1-69
1-70

Katherine Newton (Courtland) (1968)

 Hi everybody!

Well, I had barely finished getting my Covid decorations up and now its already RIOT season. Hard for us seniors to keep up! I felt like the Pandemic was like I had had a severe stroke and was confined to a nursing home before I was ready.  I got so bored one day I actually enjoyed vacuuming. I was waiting for the ride on model! Now, I like cowering in my home with some protection and listening for a riot group to decide to ravish our neighborhood! Very sad....I fear things will never be normal again. Its pretty darn sad when one cannot feel safe just going out in your own city. Downtown Birmingham was trashed with both gorgeous large buildings and small long revered small businesses ruined. Now they have targeted shopping malls in the suburbs and rumor has it some neighborhoods will be next. A friend told me he tried to buy a shotgun and there was not one left for purchase in all of Alabama. It will not be a pretty sight if this comes to the neighborhoods. Meanwhile, we are considering some mountain property up near Tenn. to get away from all the crazies. We miss ballroom dancing, church and lots of travel. We had retirement mapped out as long as our health was ok, but now out the window. Got a surprise new grandbaby so still have to seriously islolate to go visit her up in Maryland. Its our first and we will be in late 80s when she graduates from high school, ha!. If you own any stock, better lighten up if possible. All is artificially propped up but cant last too long.  And your safety deposit boxes are totally not insured. You realize this mob rule has resulted in some looting of banks!  Think twice about that. They managed to open ATMs........Afraid all this is leading to the United Nation's goal of ONE World Order by 2030. People too willing to give up their privacy and rights for promise of easy government checks, in my opinion. Hang in there! We have to roll with the punches which we can do from surviving the 1960s!!  Love ya..

Sherald Hixson (1958)

HEY! Class of 1958 lets hear from you guys. Both Spring & Summer graduates.

Beth Green (McConnell) (1973)

With all due respect, can we keep politics off this website? There are plenty of platforms for airing political opinions, but this is not one. Let’s not spell out our similarities and differences here and focus on what we have in common - SHHS! 

Jerry Pennington (1965)

Not a Sam Houston photo, but I am sure many of these fine looking children attended Sam Houston. I did. Please name yourself and anyone that you may remember. Thanks, Jerry

DeLeon "Butch" Key (1962)

Katherine Newton (Courtland) (1968)

Hey, maybe this will not offend some political sensitive classmates, but I thought the story was hysterical.....this poor woman fell into an open grave in front of her friends and townspeople at a funeral, loose dirt fell on her too and even her 'cheeks' were bruised when her purse hit her in the face as she fell. When Im having a bad day, I think, Everyday god grants me above ground is a good day........

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/woman-who-fell-into-open-grave-at-funeral-settles-case-for-damages-1.4192830

Travis King (1958)

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Friday....

As those of you that know me ~ then you know I am all about talking and saying how I feel, so here goes....

I just wanted to Chime in on a post.

I read the one about not talking politics on here ~ I must have missed that post or it was deleted. I have not seen anyone post their political views on here. Now Katerine #4579 if the post you have on here talking about the virus and the rioting is post in mention then SORRY ~~ That is NOT Political ~ it is what is going on in our world right now. And if that is not something we have in common then I don't know what is. YES we all went to SAM and yes we talk about a lot of our past and that is fun and I do enjoy it. BUT you can't always live in the past, and if we have to go through life worring about what we can and can't talk about then Life would just plain SUCK!! We get together and we talk but we also talk about what is going on in the present and riots and viruses are what is happening,. I think it funny that one person that is hardly ever on here saying anything would just up and make a statement like that...Just my opinion ~ and we all have one I know.....

So hope all of you are doing well and staying healthy and safe. 

PS do any of you watch the show SONGLAND? Just wondering 

Judy

Martha Buchanan (Braden) (1971)

Judy I agree with your last post!  Since I rarely if ever post anything I would like to say that I enjoy ready the posts and want to thank you and the others for keeping it active. 

If I am not mistaken Connie Hopper set this site up before FACEBOOK so the classmates of SAM could stay connected!

 

Kathy Culpepper (Gunderson) (1968)

Kathy Culpepper (Gunderson) (1968)

Charlotte Pate (Poole) (1962)

I'M WITH BETH GREEN (MCCONNELL).  THIS SITE IS TO CELEBRATE OUR SIMILARITIES NOT OUR DIFFERENCES.  WE ARE ALL HURTING IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND ONE REASON OR ANOTHER.  PLEASE TRY TO BE PATIENT AND UNDERSTANDING.

Donna Davis (Ellis) (1968)

Deborah Carruth (Bridges) (1968)

Remembering Burma-Shave...  Almost every other weekend, our family would make the 3 hour drive to see my Grandma in Jasper, Texas.  Winding up and down the old Eastex freeway to Livingston, then heading east we passed the Alabama-Coushatta Indian reservation (which at that time was nothing but a sign at an intersection!) and crossed over Dam B to zigzag through the woods to my Grandma's house.  In between times of fighting with my brothers and asking Dad if we were there yet, one of my favorite things to do was hunt for Burma-Shave signs.  When I came across these, a wave of wistful nostalgia ran through me.  Here are a few of my favorites.  I hope these bring a smile to you too.

* My job is * Keeping faces clean * And nobody knows * De stubble * I've seen - Burma-Shave 

* Her chariot * Raced 80 per * They hauled away * What had * Ben Her - Burma-Shave

* Altho insured * Remember, kiddo * They don't pay you * They pay * Your widow - Burma-Shave 

* Soap * May do * For lads with fuzz * But sir, you ain't * The kid you wuz - Burma-Shave 

* Spring * Has sprung * The grass has riz * Where last year's * Careless driver is - Burma-Shave 

* Unless * Your face * Is stinger free * You'd better let * Your honey be - Burma-Shave 

* If Crusoe'd * Kept his chin * More tidy * He might have found * a LADY Friday - Burma-Shave   

Rick Arnst (Arnst) (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60N_weyLmU

My Son and Grand daughter and I were out eating sushi the other night and she said to me...hey Grandpa, do you know what the kids are calling the Corona virus these days and of course I replied NO!!  She said Boomer Be Gone...obviously and primarily because it hits the older generation so much harder than other age brackets!  Sounded like a good title to a song to me.  So I put together this little diddy about how Boomers should and just might feel about such an honor (sarcastic) of having a virus named after them!!! LOL  I actually thought about using pics of Sam Houston classmates but the truth is I know so many great people from that school; a daunting project to say the least.  I just did not want to take the chance of inadvertantly skipping someone either!!  I hope you Enjoy what I finally did come up with!!  (double click the link above--should work)!!  LOL

Rick Arnst Class of 68

Elaine Rice (Hewitt) (1970)

Judy Maxwell post 4581, I agree with you, I have not seen any political posts. And if talking about the virus and riots is a polital post, then I think that is just our right to speak our minds. This world we are living in is not the world we grew up in. I don't know abour the rest of you, but something has to be done or our country will not survive.

If I were a police officer, I would be scared to death to do my job. I would not continue to be a police officer in the present climate. If this continues we will not be able to walk down any street anywhere safely. We need to speak out and do something or we will be done.

Paula Ruzicka (1972)