Mirabeau B.
Lamar Senior High School
Houston, Texas
Directory for The Class of 1959
Directory for The Class of 1959
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Mirabeau B.
Lamar Senior High School
Houston, Texas
Directory for The Class of 1959 |
Azadian, Bette (now Bette
Leonard; married to Phil Leonard) - Bette
maintains the e-mail list for the 59ers.
e-mail:
philandbette@comcast.net
| Baker, Betsy
(Altenburger) e-mail: rmalt9 @pdq.net "I am retired from teaching, but tutoring Latin and English. "We have 6 grandkids ranging in age from 8 to 2!!! The 8 year old "Enjoyed reading about everyone. Thanks," Betsy Baker Altenburger - Dec 2003 |
Bell, Malcolm e-mail: mugwump1959@hotmail.com
| Bergstrom, Barbara (Lumsden)
deceased 6 May 2005 in Austin, Texas - Obituary and links to Memorial site |
Blackledge, Michael A.
e-mail: Mike@Blackledge.com
web site with links to current life: http://mike.blackledge.com
| Boggs,
Gary deceased December 3, 2004 in Wimberley, Texas - Obituary |
Broesche, Travis C.
e-mail: tbroesche@comcast.net
phone:
713-528-6333
| Browne, Anne e-mail:
momqat@sbcglobal.net "After years and years of saying "I'll NEVER teach school!!" guess who's teaching high school history, and creative writing, and drama (who knew?), and economics (even tho' it has MATH in it!), and government. I've been teaching at a small Christian school in Poetry, TX for the last 3 years and am currently looking for another venue for my talents -- one that can afford to pay a living wage. I have three grown children: John, who has MS and lives in Florida; Beth, a Licensed Professional Counselor living here in Terrell and custodian of my 2 grandsons; and Michael, an Army medic who is en route, with his family, to Germany for 3 years - taking with him, despite both my and her other grandmother's offers to keep her, my only granddaughter. I live with an aging Great Dane and 4 cats, am active in the Episcopal church and in my garden, and am as content as I have been in my life. Look forward to seeing all you guys at the next event that's on dry land." (posted 2 May 2006) M. Anne Browne
909 N. Rockwall Ave.
Terrell, TX 75160
469-474-6433
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| Campbell,
Susan Lee (Solar) deceased Feb 13, 2002 in Austin, Texas - Memorial Web Site |
| Clay, Sally e-mail: zangmo@sallyclay.net "I live in a small but classy house in the Outback of Florida, and |
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| Clements, Gene deceased as of Nov 1999 Obituary |
Davis, Richard
e-mail:
hurtygurty8@aol.com
<photos: top: Dick with granddaughter; bottom: Dick with grandson |
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| Deats, Wayne Jr. e-mail: wdeats@bak.rr.com
I have led a full life and a wonderful life. After high school I joined the Navy and became a navigator on a personnel transport that traveled between San Diego and Vietnam. Then on to college at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. I received a BA degree in accounting. Went to work for Ethyl corp. in Houston. Then was recruited to join Amerada Hess Oil Co. at their refinery on St. Croix, USVI. Spent 5 years on the island and was then recruited by Berry Petroleum Co. in Taft, Ca. While at Berry, I was the VP and CFO. I also served on the city planning commission and became Mayor of Taft for two terms. A friend of mine then talked me into coming to work with him as the EVP of a large Construction company that dealt with Oilfield construction and maintenance and Underground utility installations. After 5 years the owner decided to shut the company down and go on to racing cars. Mostly midgets and sprint cars. A friend that owned an Insurance agency talked me into joining him and I have never looked back. This move has been very rewarding. It's so good that I don't even think about retiring. I also serve on several boards including the Boy Scouts of America, the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra board and the Arts Council of Kern County. I advise the Spotlight Theatre and underwrite some of their plays. I love to fill my free time with volunteering with groups that help children find a better life. (May 2009) |
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| De La Torre,
Roberta
e-mail: rdelatorre@cogeco.ca Home: 24 Bramley St. South Port Hope, Ontario Canada, L1A 3K1 (905) 885-4863 |
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Duggan,
Paul
e-mail: pduggan1990@sbcglobal.net"I am retired from an engineering and marketingTruckee, CA. (new e-mail address as of Feb 2006) [photo at right] : "We and our two children and son-in-law are seen in the attached picture in Maui, our winter hideaway." |
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| Durst, Dan deceased 1 July 2009 in San Antonio, Texas - Obituary and links to Memorial site |
Fannin, Carol (now Caroline Driscoll)
living on a ranch on
the top of the mesa near Villanueva, NM {between Santa Fe and Las
Vegas, NM}
Star Route Box 185
Gonzalez Ranch
Ribera, NM 87560
505.421.1101
| Fleming, Jon
Hugh e-mail:
JHFtexas@aol.com "I've been quite active with a number of projects
lately including the Texas eLearning Initiative created by the Texas
Legislature. We're identifying Technology Issues
in public education in preparation for the Texas Legislature's
upcoming Special Session on Public School Finance.
"From a business and professional perspective: I'm deeply
involved with several strategic planning and implementation
initiatives as disparately related as geo-political
intelligence and an investment fund targeted to university endowments
and trusts-foundations...with several in between."
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Photo: Jon with his lovely wife Cheryl; Cheryl is Vice President for
Education of Questia - the world's largest online
library. "She came to this role after a brilliant performance
career in Opera and Sacred Oratorio - with an eight year stop
as Dean of the Petree School of Music and Performing Arts in Oklahoma
City.
"Cheryl and I are
expecting two granddaughters in July (2004) which will bring the total
to six girls and four boys. We have four Australian Shepherds
which keep us company on the ranch.""Life has blessed us beyond all hope and expectations and we can't wait to see everyone at our upcoming Reunion. Go Lamar!" (March 2004) |
| Hall,
Sabra (Gill) deceased March 20, 2009 in Houston, Texas - Obituary |
| Hattwick, Mike
- e-mail:
mhattwick@cox.net
M.D., is President of
Woodburn Internal Medicine Associates, a private medical practice of
internal and preventative medicine. Dr. Hattwick earned a bachelor's
degree (cum laude) from Harvard University, a medical degree from
Baylor, and an M.P.H. equivalent degree from the University of London.
He is board certified in both preventative and internal medicine. Dr.
Hattwick is currently a clinical assistant professor for the
Departments of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine of Georgetown
University School of Medicine, a Member of the Governing Council of the
Virginia Chapter of the American College of Physicians, and a Trustee
of the Virginia Society of Internal Medicine. Since 1978 he has been
actively using computers to implement preventive medical guidelines in
his
clinical practice. (Bio from Telemedicine - 1996) ... transcription of 60 Minutes interview re: swine flu vaccine - 1979 |
Hitt, Larry
e-mail:
LarryHitt@benefitsdesign.net
Hopkins, Harriet (Holleman)
photo studio in
Dallas: 214.828.4333
e-mail: hhholleman@sbcglobal.net
| Hughes, Lynn
e-mail: Eagle1@airmail.net Since 1985, I have been  serving as a United
States District Judge in Houston. Before that I was a Texas trial
judge. Olive Dixon Allen (Kinkaid '59) and I eventually married
and have three children and four grandchildren. My hobby is
unremunerative farming. Olive taught at Kinkaid, co-founded the
Fay School, designed award-winning costumes, and chaired Trees For
Houston. I picked up my anthropology degree at Alabama and law degrees from Texas and Virginia. I taught at South Texas College of Law for 30 years and at UT for two stints. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists has had me as its distinguished lecturer on ethics. In my spare time, I am chairman of the trustees for the World Affairs Council of Houston and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the 1990s, I advised the European Union and a few East European countries on constitutional law and privatization. I am an advisor at Law & Economics Center at George Mason University's law school. (updated June 2009) |
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| Hughes, Sam
e-mail: samhughes@zianet.com I have been living in an old five bedroom house in Raton, NM (on Colorado border) for the past ten years, before that in Farmington, NM. Working as an artist. I also have a make-shift studio in Albuquerque, as I frequently visit my girfriend Elizabeth who makes silver jewelry. I do various types of art work, relying mainly on scenic watercolors for positive cash flow. My heart is in my surrealistic and allegorical paintings in oil, with which I expect to climb to greater heights economically and in interest to the public. |
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| Jordan,
Gail deceased as of 1997 Obituary |
| Kalb, Jon e-mail: j.e.kalb@mail.utexas.edu
web site: jonkalb.com "From 1959 to 1969 I participated on expeditions in Mexico, Central and South America, the Carribean, and the South Pacific, pursuing my interests in geology, paleontology and archeology. During the mid- to late- 1960s I worked at the Smithsonian and Carnegie Institution, while studying geology at American University and Johns Hopkins University. In 1966 I met Judy Carr from Seattle and in 1968 we were married in Washington D.C. We soon were blessed with two daughters, Justine and Spring, who now live in New York City and San Francisco respectively. "From 1971 to 1978, we lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from which I conducted explorations in Ethiopia’s infamous Afar Depression, which lies at the southern end of the Red Sea and the northern end of the East African Rift. There I discovered a number of fossil sites that have produced a stream of early human ancestors dating to nearly six million years old, and perhaps the oldest stone tools known dating to at least 2.5 million years. "Following the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, my family and I lived through four years of a Marxist military dictatorship. We returned to the U.S. in late 1978 and settled in Austin, where I am a research fellow with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas." (July 2004) Jon's book, "Adventures in the Bone Trade" is available through his web site. or any major on-line book store. |
 Jon Kalb in Omduuman, Sudan, c. 1994 |
Kelly, Frank S.
e-mail (verified September 2008) fskelly@shwgroup.com
now a successful
architect in
Houston
This from a TIB by
Bill Caudill [note: TIB stands for This I Believe. TIBs
were written by Bill Caudill between 1964 and 1983. For more
information on TIBs and Caudill, visit http://taz.tamu.edu/~crscenter/archives/tibs/
" Many years later, I owned the same kind
of plane -- about the same age. Looking back over my log books,
it seems I took just about everyone up flying in that little bird [including
I.M. Pei]. If you're an old timer in CRS, for sure you flew
with me. Most CRS brass, Rice faculty and students did. I
recall flying Frank Kelley (then a student at Rice -- April 1964 --he's
now a fine Houston Architect) to photograph the rice fields west of
Houston. From the air, they're pure art. To give Frank a
better view, I pulled the canopy back, like an open seater. Quite
exciting. He liked this. But when I stood the plane up on
its wing for him to shoot straight down, that he didn't like!
Lost his cookies all over my beautiful plane! Had to fly it
through a rain shower to clean it off. Better than a car wash."
| Kinzbach,
Letitia (Keller)
e-mail (verified July 2008):
kellerll@swbell.net
" I have an Adjunct Faculty position at Austin Community College. I teach in the Computer Science department. They have asked me Fall 2000 and Spring 2001 to teach full-time for them with the pay, but not the benefits. I like that. I recently interviewed for a full-time faculty position there. I will also apply at other local colleges. I'm taking online courses from the University of Maryland University College. It's wonderful! I'll have 18 graduate hours in CS by August, 2001. That gives me better credentials in many ways. I'm also slowly building the equipment, people, and network to begin my own database consulting business. It's on hold (or extreme slow-down) while I hustle in my courses (3 this semester and 2 this summer). I think I like being in charge of my time and efforts. I enjoy getting free copies of CS books (I read lots of them). I'm just a learner at heart." - Letitia, March 2001 - |
 Tish with Grandkids: Sarah (3) and Arturo (1) in the Easter outfits their grandma made for them! Oh, those Lamar Home Ec courses do pay off ! |
| Lilliott, Rick
e-mail: richard.lilliott@gte.net
I'm
still a practicing CPA in Houston. Probably the most interesting
career stretch for me was auditing Howard Hughes' books. I spent
many an hour in the the cages and pits of Las Vegas in the "old days"
1968-1974. But then again, how many people do you know that have
accounting or insurance for a hobby?
I've
been married to Gwen Davis Lilliott since 1963. We met in
Yellowstone Nat'l Park between my sophomore and junior years at
Rice.
Gwen is a Wyoming Prep and U of Wyoming graduate and a practicing
medical technologist at Memorial-Hermann Memorial City Hospital.
We have three grown children (6 degrees among the three) and two
granddaughters.
Picture
of me is in December 2003 with my younger granddaughter, Julia Madden
Chapman, who is Barry Madden's great niece.
(April 2004) |
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| Lipscomb, Fred
e-mail: flipscom@midsouth.rr.com
I am married with four children and five grandchildren. I flew at Northwest Airlines for thirty years, and owned a cattle farm here in |
| Mallet,
Cindy (Bass-Morales) deceased in October 2006 Obituary |
| McCallum,
Orlean (Anderson)
e-mail: Orlean.Anderson@fcps.edu I have enjoyed life in Washington DC since 1972 when my husband and I moved here, I to teach, he, to work in architectural preservation. Now, a widow, I still thrive on the excitement of Washington politics, arts and museums, and sports - though cable TV gets most of my money because of my addiction to the Rockets and Astros! …I must be a masochist!...Surely Roger will break the spell. I am in Houston often for most holidays to see my wonderful mother and dad who still live in the house we bought when I was a senior at Lamar (Betsy and Bette always said I lived “across the tracks”!) and to watch my nephew set 9th Pole Vault records at Memorial High School! I am a VERY biased aunt! My life has been blessed by a wonderful, smart, handsome son and a career as a teacher. I have loved every minute teaching high school kids about the power of language, the thrill of writing a piece that “satisfies” the writer and moves another person, the joy of reading a book that introduces other worlds or new ideas. I have been fortunate to be involved in many areas of staff development so that I have spent almost as much time working with teachers as I have spent working with students. I served as an English department chairperson in a high school of three thousand students and now am finishing my career in a “second chance” alternative school of three hundred…a job which turns me gray and keeps me young at the same time. I spend time reading, traveling, taking photographs, writing poetry, following baseball and basketball, and loving music. I am sorry I will not be at the 45th Reunion to see how young and beautiful everyone looks! (April 2004) |
| McCleary, Steve
e-mail: smccleary@fastwave.biz 7180 Las Vistas Rd Las Cruces NM 88005 575-541-5608 After my stay at Lamar I studied mathematics, first at Rice and then, for my graduate work, at Wisconsin. I taught at the University of Georgia and at Bowling Green State University. BG's mathematics department had a corner on the market in the small mathematical niche in which my research interest lay. This area is called Ordered Groups, which persuades people that I must also be a sociologist. There were briefer visits to various other universities. The most exotic of these was a round-the-world trip to Japen, New Guinea, Australia (my visit at a university there being the point of all this), Thailand, India, Jordan, Israel, and Greece. This was before going around the world became almost routine. Become a mathematician and see the world! I am now retired. I was enjoying my retired state until a year ago, when my wife died. That has been very hard, but I think the worst is past. From my living room you can see Organ Mountains and the Rio Grande. And up behind the house is a mesa on which I do a lot of walking and running. Hiking has been a lifelong favorite activity of mine, and my interest in chess, which began at Lamar, has recently been revived. Las Cruces is a great place to live ... if you like deserts. (March 2009) |
| Mendell, Wendell Wendell’s Life (provided 2002) After I graduated in 1959, I attended the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). I graduated with a Bachelor’s in Physics in 1963. The vast majority of graduates were going to Grad School, but my GPA was not very robust. I began looking for a job. IBM recruited all CalTech graduates and I got an offer. However, my mother wrote tearful letters urging me to leave the evil California and come home. My Aunt Aileen knew a person in HR in the new NASA installation and could get me a job. I ended up working at the new Manned Spacecraft Center (that had not yet been built) in a group collecting information about the Moon for use by engineers designing the Apollo spacecraft. Note that I said ‘collecting information’ rather than ‘studying’ or ‘researching’. The group had some Ph.D. members but could not be called a research organization. The intellectual environment at MSC was a stark contrast to CalTech, and I began exhibiting withdrawal symptoms. In 1965, I wangled a one-year NASA fellowship to get a Masters degree. Most people who entered the program went to Univ. Houston or even as far away as Texas A&M. I broke tradition by enrolling at UCLA. When I returned home for Christmas vacation with Beatle-length hair, my father marched me to his barber to ‘get it trimmed’. (The barber assured him it was not as long as some bikers.) When I returned in June, 1966, with my Masters in Physics, I also brought back a fiance - a Canadian nurse / United Airlines stewardess. My parents were taken aback by her, and she went into long-term culture shock. We married, had 2 children (now ages 35 and 31), and parted ways 12 years later. When we were pregnant with the first child (daughter), we went to hear Andy Warhol somewhere over in Montrose. I was struck by how different people in the audience looked and immediately began to grow a beard, which I still have. Upon seeing me for the first time, my mother ran from the room crying, talking about murderers. During my first marriage, I enrolled at Rice part-time in a Ph.D. program, paid for by NASA. The organization I worked for had morphed into a real research group. [The finding of possible evidence of life in a meteorite from Mars was made by some of my long-time colleagues.] When my second child (son) was born, I was studying for Orals. I eventually wrote and defended a Thesis on an experiment flown to the Moon aboard Apollo 17. In 1986, I married a ‘spinster’ 11 years my junior. She had a mathematics degree from Ohio State and had worked in Houston for IBM on the Space Shuttle navigation system for 12 years since her graduation. We are still married and have 2 children, ages 10 and 6. She still works for IBM, and I still work for NASA. June, 2002, will mark 39 years. On my 60th birthday - December 31 - I cut off my Beatle-length hair for a buzz-cut. It will be my coiffure for the next 35 years. Then we will see. |
Much, Kathleen
e-mail: kathleen@alumni.rice.eduI've been in California for over 20 years now, 18 of them as editor |
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| Neece, Emily
e-mail: neece@hrworks-inc.com Emily recently joined HR Works, Inc, as Director of Outsourcing. HR Works, Inc., is a human resource management outsourcing and consulting firm serving more than 600 clients throughout the Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Philadelphia and Baltimore/ Washington areas. Emily lives in Fairport, NY with her husband, Alan Ziegler. She has 8 grown children and stepchildren, and 7 grandchildren. She received the Award of Excellence from the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management in 1994; the President’s Award from the Rochester Women’s Network, in 1992; and the W Award from the Rochester Women’s Network in 1986. In the Rochester area, Emily’s volunteer commitments and advocacy for women are well-known. Emily holds lifetime certification as a senior professional in human resources (SPHR), earned an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction at the University of Houston and a B.S. in education and political science at the University of Texas. (April 2004) |
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Perry, Kylene
(Nelson)
e-mail: KBNart@aol.com web site: art-n-things.com
Kylene attended the University of Texas at Austin, and later studied(July 2004) |
Prescott, Sandra (Rice)
e-mail:
srice922 [at] hal-pc.org I
attended Lamar the first half of my sophomore year (1956). I understand
that, based on that, I may be considered a sort of 1959 "scab".
I would love to attend the [50th] reunion.Lamar is the only high school I ever attended; there was this problem back then about pregnancy. I got my GED in 1966, and graduated 'magna cum laude' from the University of Houston in 1988 (after 18 years of on-and-off night school). I then passed the CPA exam (all five parts at my first attempt) -- of course, I had terrific OJT since I had to start my working career at age 17. I'm still working; I perform financial and accounting services for several professional services firms (mostly engineers and architects). I asked Lamar if they would consider awarding me a diploma based on my subsequent history but they evidently only do this for military veterans. Oh well...... Nevertheless, I was delighted to find the '59 website and would be pleased to catch up with some of those I recall (mainly from Lanier!). Regards, Sandra Rice (nee: Prescott) (April 2009) |
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| Robinson,
Reed
111
1/2 Welch Street Houston, Texas 77006-2117 Phone: (713) 523-2504 Cell: (281) 384-0542 e-mail: reed_robinson@att.net At 63, after retiring from teaching English to college-bound seniors at Robert E. Lee, and a mild stroke, I'm still going strong. Just show me a diving board I can't fall off !! I plan to be at all three events (at the Reunion) and hope to see everyone at each. (March 2004) |
| Stults, Thomas
Whitaker e-mail
in July 2008: now: i-2-i@att.net
(was: stultsi2i@yahoo.com ) After thirty odd years of law practice, I learned quite readily that retirement was a thing to which I was not well suited. I spent a couple years with Spec’s Warehouse heading up wine, and learned more information about the almighty grape than I ever knew existed. Now the bronze, Grecian body, which lies beneath this façade, gets its grueling workouts at Lowe’s, in lumber and building supplies. How thankful I am for being so healthy, and strong as a Memphis mule. I always knew there was something to be said for faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money! (March 2004) |
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Ullrich, Tony "With 2 other people, for over 2 years, we have been working to get my learning system for BLUEGRASS STYLE BANJO on the market......3-15-01 the STORE on the site opened for business... the site will tell you all you
need / want to know about the last 41 years or so." |
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Wicker,
Jere
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| Williams,
Linda (Raley) deceased as of August 30, 2002 Obituary |
The Lamar '59er's Lunch is currently held at Marathon Oil Bldg. Cafeteria, 5555 San Felipe at Yorktown, Houston. Underground parking available. These lunches are held on the first Thursday of every month, so plan ahead..... Please pass this info on to any of our classmates that you may be in contact with.
We don't want to leave anyone out. I sent out postcards to quite a few of those that don't have e-mail. See you next month on [the first] Thursday. - Bette Azadian Leonard
Links:
The words for the Lamar Fight Song can be found at this site:
http://hs.houstonisd.org/lamarhs/handbook.htm
which also contains the words for the Alma Mater, and other information. The words and music for
both were contributed by Lee S. Keding.
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Fight Song: |
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| Dateline, La Madeleine's
Restaurant: This group of 59ers was found in November
2003, already thinking about the 45th reunion in April 2004 ! From
left to right: Wendell Mendell, Jim Jennings, Rick
Lilliott, Kathleen Much, Gwen Lilliott, Carol Childress Turner.
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