| Our
most active Classmate gathering occurs in Houston on the First Thursday
of each month. Send an email to Wendell@Lamar59.org to learn more
and to be reminded! |
Houston Group: December 2021 First
Thursday of the last month of 2021 brought toegether survivors of the
Fredericksburg Road Trip of November 2021, to the current Houston
luncheon location, Goode's BBQ. Clockwise from immediate
foreground: Larry Hitt, Rick McDowell, Barbara Pickard, Lou Parks Gorski, Bob Freedman, Dee Post Zook-Bell.
Houston Group: December 2019 First
Thursday of the last month of 2019 brought out the gathering in
Houston, Marathon Bldg cafeteria. We can view our classmates there both
fore and aft. Clockwise from immediate foreground, from 2nd photo below: Wendell Mendell, Victor Driscoll, Rick Lilliott, Rick McDowell, Joe Beery, Bill Higdon, Arlen Ferguson, Cynthia Lindsey Salvato, Joe Keathley, Bob Freedman, Thomas Stults, Gail LaRue Layne. Photo taken by uncompensated Marathon Bldg cafeteria worker, 5 December 2019.
For
those tortured classmates who claim they are always at the back end of
the photo, here we see them in all their glory. Let's go
counter-clockwise from lower right, we find: Arlen Ferguson, Bill
Higdon, Joe Beery, Rick McDowell, Rick Lilliott, Wendell Mendell, Gail
LaRue Layne, Joe Keathley, Thomas Stults, Bob Freedman.
Houston Group: April 2019 Clockwise from left center: Arthur Faris, Wendell Mendell, Arlen Ferguson, Lou Parks Gorski, Sharon Anderson Rose, Gail LaRue Layne, Lawrence Thompson, Tom Henderson, Bette Azadian-Leonard, Rick Lilliott, Bob Sternenberg, Bill Higdon. |
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| Monthly Luncheon in Houston: 6 Sept 2018 |
 Bill
Higdon, Rick McDowell, Cynthia Lindsey Salvato, Asa Weldon, Tish
Compton Hale, Lawrence Thompson, Sharon
Anderson Rose, Travis Broesche, Bette Azadian Leonard, Rick Lilliot,
and Tom Stults. Photo taken by phone of Wendell Mendell |
| Houston's Monthly Luncheon for 59ers: August 2018 |
 Your classmates gather high atop the Acme Building in the City that
Never Sleeps: 1 August 2018 , cw: Bette Azadian Leonard;
Art Faris; Wendell Mendell; Lynn Hughes; Barbara Pickard; Bill
Higdon. Always tough to get a turnout when the First Thursday
falls
on the 1st of the month! |
| Lamar '59 Luncheon, 3 May 2018 |
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| Above: at the Marathon Oil luncheon: (cw) Rick Lilliott, Bette Azadian Leonard, Wendell
Mendell, Phil Leonard, Dee Post Zook-Bell, Arthur Faris, Tish Compton Hale, Lou Parks Gorski, Susan Swift Seidensticker, Bill Higdon. Photo taken by Barbara
Pickard, 3 May 2018. |
| Houston Group: April 2017 Clockwise from left center: Wendell Mendell, , Rick Lilliott, Bette Azadian-Leonard, Dee Post Zook-Bell, Lou Parks Gorski, Tish Compton Hale, Frank Jones. |
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| Houston Group: February 2017 featuring Victor Driscoll |
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| Houston Lunch Bunch, 5 Feb 2017. Small group but great chocolates! [pictured clockwise, starting smack-dab in front:
Wendell Mendell, , Rick Lilliott, Tish Compton Hale, Dee Post Zook-Bell, Victor Driscoll, Arlen Ferguson, Frank Jones. |
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Houston Lunch Bunch, 5 Jan 2017. [pictured still standing, Left to Right:
Frank Jones, Rick Lilliott, Bill Higdon, Wendell Mendell, Larry
Hitt, Art Faris, Fran Callahan (Executive Director of Lamar Alumni
Association), Joe Beery, Lawrence Thompson, Arlen Ferguson, Tom Herren
(who has completed half-marathons in both NYC and Houston in the past
year).
Seated: Tish Compton Hale, Dee Post Zook-Bell, Lou Parks Gorski, Ann Knickerbocker McCullough. |
| Houston Group: November 2016 |
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| Photos below supplied by Barbara Pickard shows the Houston Lunch Bunch,
October 2016. Nancy Culbertson DeLorenzo (seated), Dee
Post Bell, Sukey Fenoglio, Joe DeLorenzo, Bette Azadian Leonard, and Tish Compton Hale join their '59
Lamar classmates for bi-monthly luncheon at the Marathon Oil Tower cafeteria.
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| Photos
above supplied by Barbara Pickard shows the Houston Lunch Bunch,
October 2016. Included at the gathering: Rick Lilliott, Dee
Post Zook-Bell, Bette Azadian Leonard, Sukey Fenoglio, ... |
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| Photo
above supplied by Barbara Pickard shows the Bi-Monthly Houston Lunch
Bunch, August 2016, Marathon Oil Tower cafeteria. Included at the gathering:
Bill Higdon, Wendell Mendel, Rick Lilliott, Herbert Cull, Arlen
Ferguson, Dee Post Zook-Bell, Larry Hitt, Thomas Stults. |
