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Class news - via Noel Garland

From Noel Garland:  This information just in. Am including all who get this message in the hope that you don’t get the same message from several sources. Keep handy if you are able to come and to pass on to others you know who may not be on my list, or who don’t have computer access. Noel

PS: Am hoping also that something can be arranged to have a date compatible meeting with the graduates of Stephen J Hay, class of 1950 can be held in addition to the dates of the 1954 NDHS reunion, but not conflicting. Hope all that is possible can attend one or more of these planning meetings. Do contact Bill about your planned attendance.  

To: Bill Driscoll ; Noel Garland

Cc: Kelly Parks (work) ; Bill Travis

Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:07 PM

Subject: Planning Meeting for 55th Class of 1954 Reunion

TRAVIS 50th Anniversary On June 21st, 1958 Jane and Bill Travis were married. Jane Mooney was a graduate of Paschal High in Fort Worth in Fort Worth and attended the University of Texas. Bill, a graduate of North Dallas  High School, was also attending UT. Jane's friends arranged for Bill to give them all a ride back to Dallas. Bill fell in love with Jane at first sight! It's been quite a ride ever since! Together Jane and Bill had four children and became lifelong members of Lake Highlands United Methodist Church. They developed several businesses and other ventures that have touched many lives Their community, school, and business friends are too numerous to count. They live a humble, service-oriented life as they still travel and contribute to this world.  Dear Mom and Dad, You have made so many wonderful memories together over the past 50 years. You've stuck by each other through thick and thin and created a wonderful life together; full of love and security for your family. you've always given your unconditional love freely and with your arms wide open-that is a legacy of love. You also provided great services to your church and community making you role models for all of us. Happy Golden Anniversary!   We love you!  your children, grandchildren, and extended family. Copies of this article in the 06/22/2008 are available with the 2 pictures available with a SASE to Noel Garland, 4755 Bedford Drive, Mesquite, Tx 75150

Alumni Tidbits

Below are a few fascinating distinctions of the 1954 class alumni accomplished since we shared the halls at ND. If you hold any unique titles such as below or something similar let us know.  Send them to noelgarland@msn.com

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04/24/06

(deceased)

ALEGRIA, GLORIA B., Age 69 born Jan. 24, 1937 in Dallas, TX to Jesus Alegria and Guadalupe Benavides. Passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Feb. 3, 2006 in Dallas, TX. She was predeceased by former Husband; Felix Ramon, Sr., Son; Felix Ramon, Jr., Daughter; Magdalena Ramon and is survived by Sons; Jesus, Juan & wife; Herminia and Guadalupe Ramon, Daughters; Rosa R. Ramirez and Lucinda & husband; Mario Rodriguez, 16 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren and Sister; Margaret Munoz, Uncle; Raul & wife; Juana Baltazar. Rosary, 7PM, Monday, Feb. 6th, CALVARIO FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL. Oak Cliff Calvario Funeral Home 300 West Davis Dallas TX 75208 (214) 946-8165

Allen, Bill

 After reading Ray Bowen’s biography, preparing mine seems ridiculous. But, what the hey, Miss Gerlack might be interested, maybe even amazed. After graduation from NDHS, I received some scholastic scholarships and went to Texas A&M (with Ray) for 2 1/2 years. I transferred to SMU, and with the help of further scholarships and their co-op program earned my BSME in 1959. That same year, I married the beautiful Glenda Furgeson, of Trenton, Texas, unquestionably the most fortunate thing that’s happened to me. I went to work for Ingersoll-Rand Company, selling their heavy industrial equipment and machinery in Midland, Texas for three years. After some wonderful training, I realized I was not suited for sales, and moved to Atlantic Richfield Company (then Atlantic Refining Company) for the next 25 years. My primary activities for ARCO were in project engineering and management, involving oilfield production facilities in California and Alaska. I got to live in places like Odessa, Texas; Franklin, Louisiana; Dallas; Pasadena, California; San Francisco; and Anchorage, Alaska. I even got to spend time in England and Korea. My biggest discovery was that the most enjoyable jobs involved spending lots of money! With downsizing in 1987, I found myself living in the briar patch of Seattle, Washington, with a few years of productivity left in me. So, I went to work, again in project management, for a local government agency, Seattle Metro. For eight years I managed a capital programs division for them, designing and building transit and wastewater treatment facilities. At that magical age of 59 1/2, I retired. I’ve enjoyed every minute of the last 5 years of retirement and don’t know how I found time for work! What have I accomplished? My best accomplishments are three stunning, intelligent, and successful daughters. One is a studio operations manager for NBBJ, a national architectural firm. Number 2 is a section chief for the Corps of Engineers in Germany. And Number 3 is a buyer for the kitchen section of Amazon.com. I founded the Alaska Chapter of the Project Management Institute and the Puget Sound Chapter of the Miata Club of America (its first chapter). I earned a professional engineering license in Texas and membership in Sigma Tau, Blue Key, Kappa Sigma, ASME, API, PMI, and the West Texas Sports Car Club. (If the letters are meaningless to you, that’s what they are.). One of my projects (Seawater Treating Plant in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska) earned an ASCE award in 1985. My current pleasures are my supercharged Miata, cinema, traveling (Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey), reading detective novels, doing computer stuff, and eating my wife’s BBQ. We love to travel and enjoy visitors here in the Northwest. Please feel welcome to stop by! Bill Allen.   Go see Bill's photos

 Altermann, John A III

(Ayers) Owen, Charlene

Ballas, Maurice (MD)

02/20/04 - College info: Rice Institute/BA English University of Texas Southwestern Medical School/MD: Job info: Attending Pathologist, Chief Pathologist - Englewood Hospital, Englewood, NJ, 1969-1997. After retirement: Semi retired - Working part time all over Texas Hobbies: Fishing, Reading, Computing at home

11/06/01 - Spouse_name: Mika (Micky). Job_info: Cars sales since 1971, past 8 years with Sewell Olds-Pont-GMC at 7474 Lemmon Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75209.214-350-8000 or 1-800-350-8008.

Spouse_name: Jenye

Bowen, Dr. Ray M.

Dr. Ray M. Bowen is the 21st president of Texas A&M University, one of  the nation's largest universities and an institution recognized internationally for  its teaching, research and public service. He assumed the presidency of the  land-, sea- and space-grant university on June 1, 1994. Under Dr. Bowen's leadership, Texas A&M's academic and related  programs have continued to be enhanced, and the university's physical plant  has been significantly expanded. The institution also has successfully  completed a major capital campaign-exceeding its $500 million goal by more  than $137 million. Looking to the future, Dr. Bowen initiated an ambitious visioning program  two years ago to map plans for propelling Texas A&M into the ranks of the 10  best public universities by the year 2020. The project, entitled "Vision 2020,"  involved a task force of more than 260 faculty, staff, students, former students  and other friends of the university who delved into all facets of the institution.  Their report, "Creating a Culture of Excellence," includes more than 90  recommendations and calls for two capital campaigns that would increase the  university's private endowment from $700 million to $3 billion to help fund the  desired enhancements. "Vision 2020" now moves into the implementation phase. Prior to assuming the presidency of Texas A&M, Dr. Bowen served for a  year as interim president of Oklahoma State University. He joined the  administration at Oklahoma State in 1991 as provost and vice president for  academic affairs. He began his professorial career in 1965 when he joined the mechanical  engineering faculty at Louisiana State University. Two years later, he accepted  an appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences  Department at Rice University, where he served for 16 years including five  years as department chair. Dr. Bowen later served as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky.  Dr. Bowen was a member of the National Science Foundation staff on two  occasions. Prior to accepting the top academic position at Oklahoma State, he  served for almost two years at NSF's Washington, D.C. headquarters, most  recently as deputy assistant director for engineering. He also served as director  of the Division of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from 1982-83. Immediately after receiving his Ph.D., he began three years of active  military duty and served on the faculty of the Air Force Institute of Technology  at Dayton, Ohio. He subsequently served for a year as a post-doctoral fellow at  Johns Hopkins University. Also, he has twice served abroad as a visiting  professor, in 1974 in New Zealand and 1979 in Germany. He holds two degrees from Texas A&M. He earned a B.S. in 1958 and a  Ph.D. in 1961, both in mechanical engineering. He also received a master's  degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1959. Dr. Bowen is one of  a very few Texas A&M graduates ever chosen to lead his alma mater.  

Bowen, George

03/01/2007

1/15/03 - Ben graduated from North Dallas High School in 1954 and from Southern Methodist University in 1958 with a BBA. in Accounting. He has logged more than 15,000 hours flying aircraft for the Air Force and Braniff International Airways. Ben served in the United States Air Force for 9 years during the "Cold War" era and the Vietnam Conflict. He flew F-100 "Super Sabre" Tactical Jet Fighters in Japan, Korea, and enjoyed an all expense paid tour of Southeast Asia as a "Forward Air Controller" with the US Army. The Air Force experience was followed by a fifteen-year career as an Airline Pilot for Braniff Airways. He was the 2001-2002 NSA/NT President.

Burgess, Robert

6/10/02 - After leaving North Dallas High, Robert went to SMU on an athletic scholarship, where he played both football and baseball . He graduated with a BBA degree and immediately afterward went to work with Johnson Wax as a sales rep, He worked 28 years at Johnson and achieved the position of Director of Sales. He also managed two World's Fair exhibits for the company as part of the company's public relations effort.  Robert has three children - a son who is single and who played all the sports at the high school level in Atlanta and is now living in Dallas. He also has two daughters who are married and has a new grandson, his first. Robert lives in a golfing community North of Atlanta.  Robert is in excellent health (he attributes this to his parents) and is 6', 185 lbs which is close to what he was in High School. He realizes that health can be a fleeing condition, however. Robert says that he often thinks of his life, friends and days at North Dallas and they were truly rewarding and extra special to him.

( Brunson) Rodgers, Jeaneen 

Chancellor, Thomas

Another North Dallas High alumni success story.  Thomas attended and graduated from North Texas in '61 then on to Harvard Law School where he received his law degree in '64.  Traveling from the East Coast to the West he accepted a position with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher an international law firm headquartered in Southern California.  For the next 14 years he practiced law with part of those years being spent in the overseas office located in France.  In '78 Thomas relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah where he began a 20 + year teaching career.   With the exception of a 2 year tour at Texas Tech Law School in Lubbock Thomas taught at The University of Utah.  Not so very long ago Thomas put away his law books and took up a new career of retirement.  He looks forward to seeing his NDHS classmates at the 50th Reunion..   

12/15/01  - Spouse name:Jack   Job info: Registered nurse

09/17/02 - Chester worked at General Motors for 31 years and retired at age 49. 

 Chitwood, Dewayne

1/27/04 - Spouse name: Virginia. College info: Abilene Christian 1 Year. Graduated SMU-1959 BBA. Family info: 2 Daughters, 1 Son, 8 grandchildren (5 boys, 3 girls). Job info: Sold my insurance agency in 1997 and retired. Was serving on board of Wes-Tex Drilling Co. when asked to work full time as EVP. Became President & CEO in 2000 and work full time in the oil and gas exploration business. In addition, I am executive director of a medium sized charitable foundation which gives about $500,000 each year to organizations in and around Abilene. Hobbies: Try to play golf 2-3 times per week. Because 5 of the grandchildren live in Abilene, I watch a lot of soccer, baseball, basketball and tennis---they are active!! Comments: My wife Virginia was a Highland Park '53 graduate and SMU '57. She was longtime friend and neighbor of JoAnn Young who introduced us in 1955.

4/16/2005 - George is married to Ann (Salter) - they have 13 grandchildren

Collins, Malcolm

(deceased)

Malcolm Collins died several years ago.  His mom, Mrs. Taylor, continued to live on Rigdelia Rd. until just this last May when she moved into an assisted living facility. Her eye sight is failing and is making it difficult for her to live alone. Vinton Sheffield visits her and Anna Fraizer Uecker (Class of '52), her niece  each time that he is in Dallas. 

Coker, Gary

Gary's brother, James, reports that Gary is now living on his 50 acre farm near Tioga (birthplace of Gene Autry) and is raising championship chickens and showing them around the country.  James says that Gary is in good health, working out 3 days a week in the gym that he built on his farm (gym described to consist of equipment that matches Gold's Gym).

Cooper, William "Bill"

Bill is a prominent real estate developer in Dallas.  He is founder of Paragon Group, a large real estate corporation that managed over 24,000 apartments and 27 million square feet of commercial space. Bill and his wife have been involved in many Dallas fund raising events.

 ( Dennis) Roper, Carolyn

Carolyn and her husband, David Roper, live in Boise, Idaho.  David was pastor at the Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto CA before they retired to operate a Christian camp in Idaho.

04/24/06

Easterling, Michael B.

Farley, Earl 

(deceased)

Obit - FARLEY, WILLIAM EARL, 68, beloved husband, father, & grandfather, went to be with the Lord on February 24, 2005. He was born on April 22, 1936 in Dallas and was a longtime resident of Carrollton, Texas. He was a retired coach and teacher from the Dallas Independent School District. He is preceded in death by his mother & father, Vannie & Earl Farley. He is survived by his wife, Nina; sister, Connie; brother-in-law, H. B. Kernodle; 5 children & their spouses: Lori & Ray, Lisa & Bobby, Lynda & Mike, Lesley & Lynn, and Jimmy & Becky; 13 grandchildren: Jennifer & Willie, Amanda & Matt, Raymond, Lindsey, Cassie, Stephanie, Lucas, Haley, Alexandra, Jacob, Joseph, Jarrett, & Katie; and a multitude of friends & family to cherish his memory. We will all miss him dearly. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday, February 26, 2005 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. A Memorial Service will be celebrated at Rhoton Funeral Home, Chapel on Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Patients Comprehensive Cancer Center in Carrollton. Dignity Memorial Rhoton Funeral Home I35 at Crosby Rd. Carrollton (972) 242-5261  Published in the Dallas Morning News on 2/26/2005.

FYI - Bulldogs have raised $2350 in Earl's Name $1000 from his 1954 Class. This account will be closing on April 1, 2005. If you still want to contribute, make checks payable to North Dallas High School Athletic Department with a note "in the name of "Earl Farley" and mail to %George Cole  4105 Village Glen, Irving TX 75038.

Fryar, Bobby

08/12/2007 - Spouse name - Rita Jackson (Crozier Tech 1963).  Family Info - 3 children and 6 grandchildren.  Job Info - Keith moved to California in 1963 and purchased a company in 1974 and retired in 2005 

(deceased)

Cal Greer's Obit

7/12/04 -   Barbara spent 4 years in New York City after graduating in 1954, and ended up the last 30 years in the little town of Seymour, Texas. bout 50 miles from Wichita Falls (where the Seymour residents have to go to buy anything).  She is semi-retired in Seymour now.  She says that  the people are good in Seymour and she kind of likes knowing people everywhere she goes.  She has lost touch with everyone in Dallas.  She has one son who is an accountant in Carrollton She has considered moving to Dallas,, but she just couldn't stand the traffic.

( Hanna) Baker, Nancy Louise

 Harris, Thomas R. (Dr) 

Go see Tom Harris' biomedical research website 

11/6/01 - Spouse name: Carol Harrison.  Family info: Adam Harrison - Paramedic  Dana Simmons - Housewife.  Job info: Policeman, Dallas County Juvenile Officer, Justice of the Peace, Knife maker and designer for Browning, Kershaw, and Kabar. Semi retired, own machine shop.  Hobbies: Hunting,fishing, Painting, raising Koi fish.  Main influence came from: Carol my wife

(Hudspeth) Drake, Carol

12/7/2006 - I graduated from UT/Austin in 58, majoring in TV-Radio Broadcasting.  After a brief stint on the NBC Page Staff in Los Angeles (fancy name for "gopher" that gets you inside the network) I went to work on the production staff of WFAA-TV/Dallas and worked up from cameraman to producer/director. In 1962 I got an offer I couldn't refuse:  J. Walter Thompson in New York City (at the time, the largest advertising agency in the world) hired me as a TV station liaison and commercial producer. I moved to ABC News/NYC as a TV producer and radio correspondent.  A high point of my career was working as Producer of ABC's coverage of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing. I moved into broadcast management as Program Director of KPIX(TV)/CBS/San Francisco, and General Manager of PBS stations in Anchorage, Alaska; Austin; and San Antonio.  I won an Emmy for a show I created featuring high school kids asking Walter Cronkite questions about Nixon's trip to China. For nearly twenty years my wife, Micki, and I ran our own business television company - Chanticleer Communications - in New York and Texas, providing satellite delivered TV services to major corporations.  Our largest single project was the American TV coverage of the merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler.  When Princess Diana made her first visit to NYC, our company was chosen to be the sole producer of TV coverage of the event; the tape was shown on newscasts throughout the world. In 2000 we retired to Washington State, where my wife was raised, and love our life in the Pacific Northwest.  We have two grown daughters, three granddogs and one grandcat.

2006 -  From Noel Garland - Sandra Janowski Swann past away two weeks ago. She had cancer for a few years and it just finally took it toll. She graduated in Jan of 54 and attended North Texas in Denton for one year. She was a good friend  through all these years. She lived in Carrollton.

Jenkins, Kenneth Carless

12/03/04 - Kenneth is married to Claudette Rainey Jenkins ('55).  They have  2 children, 7 grand children, 6 great grand children.

8/26/02 - College Info: BA, University of Texas at Austin '64. Family info: 5 children, 5 grandchildren. Job info: various jobs since high school, mostly in the education field...Hobbies: reading, gardening, surfing the internet. Things Would Do Different:- be a year or two older when I attended!!

11/6/01

Spouse name: Linda Fugate Lacaze College info: Texas A&M None, University of Texas at Arlington BSME,  1965 University of LaVerne, LaVerne CA MS 1980. Family info: Two girls, both married to their original husband. One has her own business, the other is a med. insurance exec. Job info: Patented air bag crash sensor system while at Ford Motor Co. which is still being used. Other patents while at ITT. After retirement: Owner, Lacaze Engineering, Consulting Engineers  Hobbies: Flying gliders for fun, small power planes for transportation Influence: Vern Glass was a jerk but did a good job of teaching chemistry.  The Vice Principal was a great guy. Things Different: Would have done a lot of things differently but not in High School Comments: I didn't know it at the time, but I was with a rather successful bunch at North Dallas

Lamoreaux, John

11/6/01 - Family_info: one girl child; three grandchildren and two great grandsons and one expected June of 2002.  Job_info: retired from Hartford Ins after 30 years service and worked in credit business 8 years prior to that.  Pursuits after retirement: staying home and act as caretaker of family members, i.e. brothers sisters, aunts uncles nieces, nephews, grand children, etc.  Hobbies: crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, yard work helping on elections, running errands for people in the neighborhood, etc.  Influence: the only contact I have is with my two brothers and my sister who graduated from NDHS-they are Leslie Larson Jane Larson Nutt and Clarence Larson.  Things Would Do Different: None. I loved going to my high school and I still to this day always root for them and follow their standings in football games. I remember a lot of the names of my classmates and wonder about them as I lost my yearbook in a fire years ago.

07/31/05 - Husband: Al. "I met Al Oglesby at North Texas State University. Denton, in 1956. He was a member of the NTSU Basketball team. We married in 1958 and he was drafted after receiving his Masters Degree. We moved to Carmel, California, where he was in the service at Ft. Ord and I was in a secretarial position for Couroc of Monterey for two years. We would have loved to made our permanent residence in Carmel.  However, he received his first teaching and coaching position in Odessa, Texas. We moved to Odessa where he was a very successful teacher, administrator, and basketball coach having coached at Ector High School and Permian High School. His Ector Eagles were State Champions one year he was the runner-up Coach of the Year in the state of Texas. He also coached the North/South All Star Basketball team of 1978 in Austin. Texas. We lived in Odessa 31 years before moving to the tall tree country of Granbury. I was a secretary for Robert E.. McKee General Contractors, Dallas, one year after I attended NTSU (1956). I had a wonderful learning experience with McKee when I went to San Francisco, Calif. for three months to assist with the purchasing contracts for the building of Kaiser Center, Oakland. At the time it would be the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Upon return and having married Al Oglesby I commuted from Denton to Dallas to Texas Instruments working as an Executive Secretary. My husband was drafted after getting his Masters at NTSU and we were sent to Ft. Ord, California, We lived at beautiful Carmel for two years. Upon completion of his Army service we moved to Odessa, Texas. In the following 30 years I was an employee of several wonderful companies: El Paso Products Co. and Odessa Natural Corp.. In Midland I was employed by Texaco, Inc. eventually retiring from ARCO Oil and Gas Corp. We have two children and in October 2004 we became grandparents for the first time - twins - a boy and a girl! Today I live in Pecan Plantation Country Club, Granbury, and am a member of three golf clubs - Pecan Plantation LGA, Nutcracker LGA, and the women’s Suburban LGA. We have a very active Women’s Club at Pecan and a Newcomer’s Club in Granbury. Pecan is a wonderful place to live. My closest friends during my high school years were Nina Farley, Patsy Patterson, Barbara Heath, Shirley Jones and Paula Mallow - to name a few. Sorry we missed the 50th.

04/27/01 - Lynette and her husband, David, will have been married 44 years in August 2001 and have four daughters: Stephanie, Lizette, Yvette & Mariette and five grands.  Lynette continues to "raise" David Abbott, very happily & challenging!! Lynette has always a community leader in Dallas, Lubbock, Michigan & now Whitney TX.  She is working @ Thousand Trails R.V. Campsite/2001. After retirement she plans to RELAX!!! Read & enjoy life ~~~ Her hobbies are family, grandkids, and racketball.

02/20/04 - Spouse name: Karen. College info: South High, Denver; Denver University, BA math; Colorado University MS, PhD, Controls and Systems + Johns Hopkins, George Washington, American, UCLA, MIT. Family info: Scott (35) architect, Jenny (33) nurse. Job info: Johns Hopkins University (mathematician)- built a number of satellites Ball Aerospace- worked several satellite programs NOAA Research Labs- upper atmosphere geophysics University of Colorado- teacher, Aerospace Engineering. After retirement: Officially retired from Ball, Johns Hopkins and the government, but still going full steam ahead at the University of Colorado. I have been wandering around the world teaching in my research areas. Taught in Singapore in 2000, taught at the CIA a couple of years ago. Taught at several NASA centers and aerospace companies, but never in Texas. Hobbies: Use to fly sailplanes, until I got too involved in teaching at the University of Colorado. Influence: I, John Lamoreaux, James Cook, and Maurice Ballas were sort of "4 musketeers". Things Different: I would have prefered to not moved so often. Moved from Denver to Fort Worth/Dallas in '46, '48, '50. Moved back from Texas to Denver in '47, '49, and '54. Back to Texas A&M in '54, back to Texas for the USAF (flight training) in '57. 5 moves to Texas in 11 years!! Comments: Best courses I ever took: Calculus of Variations and Classical Mechanics at Johns Hopkins. Best high school classes: Physics and Chemistry. Most valuable skill: writing!! Edited the Journal of Guidance and Control for a few years, published pieces in the Denver Post, and I am working to finish a monograph "Computer Aided Control Systems Design, Using Matlab"

7/20/03 - For me 50 years has been six years in college, one wife (43 years), three children, seven grandchildren, twenty years in the Air Force, eight years in business, and finally sixteen years in law firm management. I retired five months ago. I look forward to reading more on this site as well as renewing old friendships at the 50th reunion.

Mathias, William J

11/6/01 - James is living in Florence, Montana.

1/23/04 - College info: BA in Business Family info: Two daughters, one in Tampa the other in Clearlake, TX. One grandson, Michael Christian lives in Clearlake, TX.  Job info: Several years ago, worked as an International Stewardess with National/PanAM Airlines, worked at Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Currently involved with non-profit groups and serve on the BOD for both Spanish Club and Friends of the Library in Tampa, FL. Hobbies: Maintaining healthy lifestyle, spending time with family, dancing and with volunteer work. Influence: Beverly Reader, Janine Bronson, Sandra Janowski and Mary Lou. Things Would Do Different: Kept in better touch with my friends. Comments: Miss the football games!

10/3/04 - Spouse Name - Lawrence Ruston. Family - 3 daughters and 2 sons. All grown up and 6 grandsons and 2 granddaughters. Son, Mark has taken over management of family business - Ruston Paving Co. Inc. Youngest son, Scott, owns Daughter - Katya is an artist with own business in CO. Written up as one of the top artists in CO in Aspen Magazine.  Daughter, Diane is homemaker and artist in NY. Job Info - Modeling and fashion work. Miss Dallas Times Herald runner up.  Executive secretary at GE Business TV.  Third daughter, Mindy lives in Middlebury CT with husband, a developer in NYC, and son, Marko. Division (Syracuse NY). Hobbies - Dancing. Horses and horseback riding. Influence - Math. Father was a dance teacher with Xavier Cugat.  Things Would Do Different - Would be more active in extracurricular activities. Comments. (about reunion - enjoyed seeing people after 50 years)

07/20/03

Judy lives in Monterey CA

Parks, Leland Kelly 

7/2000 -The short 5'4" sandy-headed kid with the burr haircut grew up after leaving ND to become a tall 6' sandy-headed kid with a burr haircut.  Kelly went to work for American Airlines shortly after graduating from ND. There he stayed working very hard and saving wisely for 40 years.  American and Kelley were mutually good to one another and this allowed Kelly to comfortably retire while still in the prime of his years. Asked what his favorite pastime was, he didn't miss a beat.  "Golf is what I really enjoy, but I also enjoy visiting our ND Web site".  Kelly, the lucky rascal, has been able to fly all over the world.  This, along with his playing ability, ahs allowed him to participate in golf tournaments in Australia, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, England, plus many states in the U.S. He challenges any to play a friendly game and wishes more of our class mates would join our site and post their E-Mail addresses.

Parrigin, Paul

 Paul was in the Jan '54.  He died a few years ago

( Patterson ) Beene, Patsy Ruth 

( Reynolds) Moore, Linda 

7/2000 - Linda is a travel agent at Lakewood Travel, having gotten into that business after college. She has two Daughters - Debbie and.Ginger and six grandchildren. Most of her family live in the Dallas area. Her husband, Larry Moore (55) is deceased. Linda's middle brother, Robert Michael (Mike) Reynolds, North Dallas class of 1958, is a Dr. (PHd) in Oceanography. He lived in Seattle for many years and is now at a lab in Long Island trying to prove or disprove global warming. Her nephew, Mike Rodgers, is a news announcer on KRLD and has won several "Katy" awards for his stories. Linda's mom is 85 years old, and is still going strong (she still driving a car). Linda reports that Edgar Phillips died a few years ago.

Rowley, Howard

05/05/01 - "Twenty-six years in the USAF and lots of travel.  Moved all over the globe and in the good old US of A.  Besides Texas, there was Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Opheim, Montana; Hastings, Nebraska; Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas; Syracuse, New York; Colorado Springs, Colorado and finally Little Rock, Arkansas.   Now across the pond there was Guam, Alaska, Iceland, Panama, Thailand and Vietnam. Just some of the garden spots of the world that I have had the honor to live.  Retiring from the USAF and now have retired from an engineering firm where I was a Project Manager.  This last career was for installation of 911 projects in select counties in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Florida, Oklahoma and Arkansas.  These were just the ones that I worked on.   Married to the same gal for these past 43 years and we have 5 grandchildren - 4 boys, 1 girl.   We have two daughters, one who lives in Cape Cod, MA..   She is a Pediatrics RN and her husband is an AF Commander (L/Col) at an Space Surveillance Radar Site.   The youngest daughter lives here in Little Rock with her three children.   She is a national figure skating judge and just recently returned to the US from Brussels, Belgium where she was the US judge.   My days are spent playing golf (7 handicap), 4 to 5 days a week. That is about it for me.   Sorry for rambling so.   I was going to attend the 10th reunion of NDHS but I was on my way to Vietnam which had a little higher priority."  With Howard's ability to catch a hop, he could probably join any of you avid golfers anywhere you feel you could handle that 7 handicap. Any challengers?  Pretty good for a Fort Worth kid and quite respectable for a ND graduate!

4/17/2005 - Ann is married to George Cole - they have 13 Grandchildren

Sandridge, Ted

Spouse_name:     Edward H. "Buster" Wilson

 Sheffield, Vinton

Vinton worked for Kraft Foods and the company moved him to California in 1972 where he was a Project Engineering Manager. He has lived in the Whittier CA area for the past 13 years. Vinton retired from Kraft in 1998 and is living the life of ease. Vinton gets back to Texas ever so often as he still has all of his children living in the Dallas area, as well as his Mom and a brother in San Antonio.  Vinton has been in California since '72, so he is almost a native now. His family wants him to move back, but he really likes California and is resisting that move. When he was at ND, Vinton had the coolest cars. The first one he had was a '52 green and white Olds and then a '53 red hardtop.

(Sorensen) Youngblood, Jeneice

Stein, Harold

7/20/03 - I was only a member of the class of '54 at North Dallas High during our Freshman and part of our Sophomore years. However, some of my fondest memories of that time in my life are associated with the Orange and White. I don't think our football team ever won a game, but we all went to DalHigh Stadium to cheer anyway. Those that could went on the road trips. All the guys were in the ROTC, I even went to Camp Dallas (Mineral Wells) that first year. Caught hell from the 'upper class' too. During school I sold milk in the lunch room, don't remember the price. Wiped tables after the lunch period. A lot of people would leave their water glass upside down full of water. What a mess. Remember the shout "NICKEL" when ever someone broke a glass in the lunch room???? I was suppose to find the person and collect the nickel! Don't remember if I ever collected any! Somehow I got promoted to student cashier and collected lunch money at the register, someone else took up the milk job. My home room was Mr. Glass in the chemistry room. Looking over the list of graduates from our class I remember some, sad to say some I remember are listed as deceased. Please keep me in mind and who knows October 2004 may find me back in Dallas.

(Stephens) Payne, Deanna Jane 

Go see Deanna's Web Site

Travis, William B. (Bill)

June '54 Class President

Verble, Billy 

Billy and his wife, Linda have two children and three grandchildren.  Billy received his BA from the University of Tulsa.  He was a teacher and coach at  Tulsa four years, four years at Dallas, and at Garland 26 years.  Since he retired, he has been a Driver's Education teacher part-time for 6 years and presently trying to get over a hip-replacement surgery.  His hobbies are fishing, traveling, tennis (when able) and watching TV.  Billy says that NDHS gave him the foundation for his future years. His football experience gave him a full scholarship to Tulsa University

 (Vickery) Casey, Paula J.

Vogel, Phillip