Julie Anne Finch

Not Yet!

Jazz Band, Drama, Writer on student newspaper - 1979-1983

Like many of us, I suspect, the longer I live, the more I reflect back on my days at Westchester with great fondness and clarity. I remember faces in detail, many of whom were only passing acquaintances. Names, too. While always quite musical (search YouTube for 'Julie Finch Red House' as that's me, wailing away from a few years back), I enjoyed my time in the Westchester Jazz Band and jamming with my good friend Tennyson LeMaster (rest in peace, sweet man) on drums and a steady stream of other crazy talented classmates on electric guitar, bass, and keyboards. Eric Kolflat, Gene Huang, and of course my very best friend during those years—Katrina Lassberg, the most amazing & superb drummer to ever walk the hallways of that high school. I loved Drama class, too, and the productions we put on. Kelly Garrett, Peggy Blohm, Jimi Jupp, Chelle Perkins, and all the other beautiful friends who went through Westchester with me, I love you all. Creativity has been my saving grace, career-wise, in life. I've been blessed to have had and continue to have a gratifying career working on the creative side of the advertising, design, and marketing biz, having worked at terrific companies with amazing mentors. My family owned a staffing firm, Corporate Staffing, for 35 years with clients like ExxonMobil, Shell, Occidental Petroleum and many, many more.The business was exceptionally successful and a great blessing to my whole family. I worked there for a while but went back to my creative pursuits. I own a Creative Boutique now called Shakespeare and Coffee. Currently, my client roster includes a large software company and two ad agencies. But mostly, I'm a poet. I've self-published two chapbooks and have been published by Beatdom Books and Agave Arts Magazine and several online publications. Poetry doesn't pay a red cent, my friends. But it's what I was born to do. I live in the Houston Heights now. If any of my pals from the ole Westchester days happen to come across this, please look me up. I would be overjoyed to reconnect. Love to everybody. Thanks for the memories. One last thing: As I'm sure many of you feel, sometimes I think back to when I stood under those Westchester arches and it feels like a million years ago. But other times, it feels like it was just yesterday. God bless us every one. xoxo

I enjoyed my time in the Westchester Jazz Band and jamming with my good friend Tennyson LeMaster (rest in peace, sweet man) on drums and a steady stream of other classmates on electric guitar, bass, and keyboards. Eric Kolflat, Gene Huang, and of course my very best friend during those years—Katrina Lassberg, the most amazing & superb drummer to ever walk the hallways of that high school. I loved Drama class, too, and the productions we put on. Kelly Garrett, Peggy Blohm, Jimi Jupp, Chelle Perkins, and all the other beautiful friends who went through Westchester with me, I love you all.