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Barler, Peggy   Soldano
	Lord, so much has happen since high school. I got married when I was a senior and didn't have to. That union lasted 28 years and produced three beautiful children. My oldest Tony is a doctor at MD Anderson. My daughter Sandy is a youth minister in Plano. My youngest son, David, just graduated from college and is a banker. Now they can take care of, pray for and handle my money or I will move in with them someday. I have two beautiful grandchildren and one on the way. I understand now the old saying why God gives babies to younger women. I love them but enjoy sending them home. I graduated from ASU with my AD and BSN degree in nursing. I am an RN in McAllen, Texas working in the ER, and ICU. I worked and help form the Hospice program in San Angelo for eight years then moved down south. I am divorced and just bought me a home with a pool that I enjoy everyday. I just enjoy life and try not to get so serious. I take a cruise every year to see the beautiful things god has given us to enjoy. I haven't missed any reunions and hope to see everyone at the 40th.

Bellet, Martine
	Hi everybody! After that great year at Central, I went back home to France, and I became a teacher in 1977 and I've been teaching (English, what else?) ever since. I got married in 76, and came back to the US for a visit in the summer of 1980; got to see a few old friends, as well as my San Angelo family, which was great. Then in 1981 Alice was born, and Claire in '84. By then we had been living and teaching (husband was a math teacher) in Dieppe, on the north-west coast of France, just opposite England. After some time our marriage deteriorated (nothing highly original, I guess) and ended around 1995. My daughters are great, Alice is completing her university studies after spending a year in Spain, and is currently doing an internship at a Spanish cultural center in the south of France. Claire is studying in an art school, and dreams of making animated films some days. I was so thrilled to discover this site, I can't believe it was there all these years!

Bride, LaDawn   Stewart
	Much the same since the 30 year reunion......Still Nurse Mgr of a very busy L/D unit in Clear Lake Mike continues at his job at NASA...and in our spare time we continue to create our dream home on Taylor Lake. The children are grown and almost self-sufficient......WOW--how blessed are we. Our granddaughter is the love of our lives.....amazing how grandchildren become the center of your attention!!! Our vacations throughout the year are many----our gift to ourselves for the hours we work.....We love to ski and spend as much time in the mountains as possible---If you have a favorite place that you have found, anywhere.........please share--we love adventure.

Drennan, Lorie (Deloris)   Ward
	Attended ASU, married, moved to Alaska and lived there for 4 1/2 years. Moved back to San Angelo, adopted a son in 1978 & divorced in 1980. Remarried (very happily) in 1982. Now live in Irving, TX. and work for Verizon (formerly GTE). Rance, who also works for Verizon, & I have 2 wonderful sons. Wes is 23 & works for Verizon, & Shawn, who is 22, is attending UTA. Rance has 29 years with Verizon, so he is planning to retire in 2001 & we will move to Hot Springs Village, Arkansas. Rance will relax and try selling real estate in the village, and in his free time he will join me on one of the 9 golf courses we have in the Village! Ya'll come visit!!

Englert, Beverly   Currington
	My name is now Beverly Currington. I married David Currington (from Sterling City) in San Angelo, TX in 1973. We made our home in Austin, Texas where I raised our family of two boys -- Russell Erik Currington and Dayne Scot Currington. My family relocated to California in 1989 when the Austin economy was at its lowest. I live in Canyon Lake, California -- a city that has been nicknamed "A Little Bit of Paradise," and it really is. I work for CB Richard Ellis in the National Retail Services Division, in Ontario, California. We are a commercial real estate brokerage firm and I oversee the industry events pertaining to Retail.

Escalona, Josie   Gomez
	After graduation, I married my school sweetheart, but lost him in Viet Nam. He came back as someone else. I had 4 daughters that have made my life very interesting, not a dull moment. I worked in San Angelo for various businesses, since I was a Kelly Girl for many years. That was something to be proud of then. My most fascinating job there is when I worked for the City as an employee at Fort Concho Museum. I moved to San Antonio, TX in 1986, after my divorce. I went to Insurance Business School and obtained my License to sell Insurance. I opened a State Farm insurance Agency with an Agent. We were very successful. After the birth of my first grandchild I changed insurance companies and opened a new agency with an Allstate Agent. We were also very successful. The agent became a Millionaire within two years. We were the #1 agency in the Dallas, Houston, San Antonio Region. I won numerous awards and the agency won many trips. My two oldest daughters joined me in the office and nothing could stop us then. My oldest daughter got married and moved to Irving Tx and took my granddaughter with her. Of course that broke my heart, and after 2 years I moved to Irving, where I resided there and opened a brand new insurance agency with my supervisor from my first job there in Irving. We were also very successful. I then met my fiancee and he introduced me to the world of CPA and auditors. The money was good so I went to work for him with Kpmg Global Co. This past October, we decided that we had had enough of the rat race. I retired in October and he retired in December. We have moved to Panama City Beach Fl and have purchased a home. The sun and beaches are beautiful. If any of my classmates happen to pass by here, send me an e-mail at my new e-mail address. . We plan to travel to Spain later part of this year and have plans to travel though out this beautiful land of ours and other trips to Europe and the Orient in the future. I have very fond memories of Central and the many friends that are deceased and everyone else. May God bless all of you. Go Bobcats!!! Josie E Gomez

Flaherty, Maribeth   Plunk
	Graduated from ASU, married, moved to Illinois with first husband. Lived in the cold snowy weather for 6 years, completed Masters in Counseling because I wanted to "help People" not make money. Got divorced, remarried (happily this time) in 1981, moved to San Diego Ca (warm weather again). Had a child, Patrick, 1984. Worked as a social worker not making money and shuffling papers not helping people, got certificate in Educational Counseling (partial of EDd, here. finally quit working 1998, remodeled a house. finally time for yoga, art, ballet, modern dance and long walks on the beach. It is very expensive to live here but love it. Haven't been back to Angelo since 1977. My family is here now except brother Mark, working on oil rigs in Alaska and Hobbs, NM. Son will graduate next year, where does the time go? I stay in touch with Greg Pittmon and Blenda Edwards Gordon Huber. Enjoyed walking down memory lane on the website. Please contact me. Mp

Garrett, Nolan
	I met lots of forks in the road after Central. I attended ASU for 2 years after graduation, then was promoted with Dairy Queen and transferred to Oklahoma. Transferred back to San Angelo w/ DQ for 2 years then promoted and moved back to OK for the next 14years, where I owned 5 DQ's in Shawnee, Seminole, McAlester, and Muskogee. Sold out and attended seminary in Austin, came back to ASU in 90-91 and completed undergrad. Moved back to Austin and completed master’s degree in counseling. Now live in Waco, where I am a priest with the Anglican Church, and have a private counseling practice, Counseling Services of Waco/Waco ADHD Clinic. My daughter Stephanie operates Americans for Safe Access (a PAC fighting for the legalization of medical marijuana). Nicholas is in home construction in New Orleans. Blake is in middle school and is taking some time off from his acting career (Barney's Colorful World Tour, movie How To Eat Fried Worms) and playing football. Ryan continues with his gymnastics and is playing football as well. My stepson, Michael, is a supervisor for Time Warner in Austin and will be getting married in July 2007. Allison, my stepdaughter works with ECI (Early Childhood Intervention) through Easter Seals in Austin, and is getting married in March 2007. My wife, Susan, stays home and takes care of our schnauzer, Missy. Life is good in Waco.

Gill, Ralph
	1975 -graduated from ASU w/ BA in Theatre -moved to Red River N.M., worked at family's restaurant business. 1977 -started TREE Media, communications consulting company. 1979 -married Lana from Kansas. 1981 -divorced, no children. 1982 -married Carol from Fort Worth. 1985 -son, Connor born in Santa Fe, NM. 1989 -son, Riley born in Santa Fe, NM. 1993 -moved to Fort Worth, got job as corporate communications manager for insurance company. 1997 -divorced, lost job, dedicated life to raising children. 2000 -got job as Director of Corporate Communications for insurance/benefits administration company. -married Suzan from Fort Worth. 2002- divorced (for the last time I swear). 2003- lost job and got another with a marketing association in 1 week, lots of travel. Love it. 2005- am engaged to the right one this time. Date isn't set but should be in Spring 2006.

Harris, Judy   Danley
	After graduating from Central, went to Abilene Christian College. Graduated in '74 with a degree in Speech Pathology and went to work in Ft. Worth, then Colorado. Spent 6 years working, traveling and having fun. Met and married a wonderful Colorado guy in 1980 and, in a blink of an eye, we are now celebrating 25 years of marriage! Paul has a day job as an engineer, but his passion is his gospel bluegrass band. Check it out at www.highatmosphere.com. We have two great kids, Matt is a freshman at ACU and Melissa is a junior in high school. I keep busy as a speech pathologist for our local school district in Colorado Springs. The years have been a rollercoaster of great times and not so great times....but I've been blessed with a loving husband and a God whose love and guideance helps us through whatever life throws at us.

Harrod, Jim
	I left San Angelo after graduating to attend Texas Tech. Received by BS in Engineering in 1974. I met my wife, Kathy, at Tech and we were married in 1974 just before graduating. Kathy was a Physical Therapist for over 20 years and is now very happily retired. My first job was with Foster Wheeler Corp. and they sent us to Houston. We were only supposed to be here for a couple of years but it's been 31+ now. We have two kids. Our son Chris graduated from UT with a degree in Computer Science and is now in Tokyo, Japan working for Lehman Brothers. Our daughter Linsey went off to college in Colorado and is now an elementary school teacher in Denver. My working career has all been related to the oil and gas industry. I spent 20 years with two operating companies including the terrible 80's. I moved over to the engineering and construction contracting side of the business 10 years ago where I am a Project Manager for industrial projects. I still have some family in San Angelo and get out there occasionally. God has blessed me with a loving wife, great family, and continuous work.

Hay, Gordon
	Attended ASU for two yAttended ASU for two years, more or less and was fortunate enough to sufficiently maintain the grades to keep Uncle Sam at bay. Transferred to UT-Austin where I managed to bluff my way through the Communications School and obtain a B.S. in Radio-Television-Film. Immediately upon graduation in December '74 I hit Dallas, San Antonio and Houston certain that I was just what the television stations there were waiting for. So, in February '75 I went to work for KLST (then, KCTV) where I remained until June, 2004 when Nexstar Broadcasting purchased KLST. I'm now the manager of Jim Bass Ford's rental car division. Believe it or not this mighty old oak fell on September 2, 2006 when I married my longtime sweetheart, companion and best friend, Sandy. Her son, Joseph graduated from UT and is now working in the University of Oregon's financial aid department while her daughter Sheena has graduated from Rice Univeristy. Life's been good, so far.

Howard, Joe
	Went to Howard Payne for three semesters. Quit school, got married in July 1972. Started my career with GTE/Verizon in June 1972. In 1976 we (Carla & I) were blessed with the birth of our daughter (Courtney) in Jan 1976, then in June 1981 we were blessed again with the birth of our son (Brad). Our daughter graduated from UT Austin in Dec. 1998 and our son is currently trying to walk-on at Southwest Texas University as a quarterback. Carla and I lived in San Angelo from July of '72 until August of 1986. We now live in Grapevine. Carla is a school teacher with Coppell ISD. And I still work for GTE/Verizon now for over 28 years. That pretty well sums up what I (we) have been up to.

McMinn, Tom
	Attended Texas A&M for a year, then my family moved to Odessa and I moved to Texas Tech from where I graduated in 1974 after marrying my wife Annette. We have three daughters, all of whom are grown and married and Sept. 1, 2007 got our first grandbaby. Annette and I still live in Odessa where I am in the furniture business.

Montgomery, Charles Steven
	I am currently living in Baltimore, and wondering about a few of the people I remember from school days in San Angelo (only my junior and senior year) and U of T Austin (graduated 1975): Shane Alexander? John Leggett? Ramsey Koschak? Ernie Mayer? I have had some correspondance with Buck Hendrix and his family in the last 10 years, but no other significant news from the West Texas days. And I have not lived in Texas since 1977. Twelve years in California, now sixteen in Baltimore. I was not able to make the 2000 reunion, but may try for the next big one. Any news or contact info for the names listed above would be appreciated; or anyone else out there who remembers my name, feel free to contact me. Thanks.

Pairett, Clayton
	After graduation I worked a couple of odd jobs, then in 1972 I joined the San Angelo Fire Department where I worked for a little over 7 years. I was a Driver/EMT when I left the Department to work in the oilfield. Since the oilfield job I have been a salesman for first aid supplies, a Fire/Safety equipment store manager, a Firefighter for Big Spring Fire Department, a convience store (7/11) manager, (7/11 transferred me to Albuquerque, New Mexico), and was an Instructor/Course Developer for the State of New Mexico with the New Mexico Firefighters' Training Academy and the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy. I held the State positions for a total of 13 yrs. I am still married to my one and only wife Cricket (Janie "Cricket" Watson / class of 71). We have 1 son and 1 daughter. My son, Jon, is now a Firefighter/Engineer with the Los Alamos Fire Department in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He is married and has 2 daughters and a son. My daughter is a school teacher with the Albuquerque School District. She is also married and has 2 sons and a daughter. I look forward to hearing from any of you who want to contact me.

Pape, Delbert
	Married Linda Lee Benson of Barksdale, Texas in 1971. We rasied four boys and a daughter. Peter, our first, is Business Director at Grapecreek ISD and is married with three of our grandchildren. Lisa is a licensed esatician? and married to a C-130 pilot stationed at Dyess AFB here in Abilene where we also reside. Andy and Ben are in the military and they married sisters. Jace is in the military at Minot AFB in North Dakota-not married yet. Linda is a bookstore manager and travels alot in Texas. I retired from the Air Force (22 years plus) as an officer. Afterwards, I worked for the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services for two years. Now (2003), I just started my 7th year of teaching at Wylie HS in Abilene. Teaching has been a great second career for me. Degreed in Psychology, Masters in Public Administration, and now a certified teacher. Eight more years and I plan to retire from this, my second profession.

Paschal, Susan   Spates
	What a wonderful life since those high school days. Two beautiful and energetic children - Lindsay my oldest and Dustin. I am very proud of both of them and look forward to watching them explore those years after high school. I have been blessed with a fantastic career in education even though I tried very hard during college to do anything but "teach." I started my teaching career in Sundown, if any of you have ever heard of it. During that time, I began to realize why I was in education. I had the opportunity, while a very young teacher, to work with administrators and superintendents. One opportunity involved working with a wonderful faculty to initiate some very innovative methods that led ultimately in the direction I have spent the last years pursuing and developing. Being hired as the youngest central office administrator, I've had the pleasure of working with coordinating the program services PK-12 for gifted/talented students. A job of this sort, especially today, is one that provides a new challenge every hour of everyday. It's exciting to work with and for these students and teachers. Striving to provide programs that will ultimately develop the potential of each student. Life has included it's ups and downs for all of us but it's wonderful to look back now and see the road we started in high school and where we are today. I wish the best for all of you from Central and especially to my own two wonderful children.

Perry, Eileen   Cook
	After my fall semester as a junior at ASU, I married and moved to the opposite end of Texas to Lake Jackson where I enrolled at the University of Houston and continued my plan to become a high school English teacher. Somehow, I got an overwhelming desire to be in law enforcement, changed my major to Criminal Justice and started over. I graduated from U of H in 77 with a Criminal Justice degree and was a police officer for 12 years in Brazoria and Midland Counties; spent 10 years thereafter, conducting police and probation training at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at Southwest Texas State University and then accepted my current position as a fraud investigator with Texas Mutual Insurance where we handle criminal investigations of workers comp fraud. Life has dealt some real blows, but the blessings have always been exceptional. I missed our first class reunion as I was 9 months pregnant with my twins and 400 miles away; seems like I felt I had lost touch after that. My children D.W. and Karen have been the blessings of my life, and Karen and her husband have given me my first grandchild this year, an adorable little girl named Callie. I have now attained the one last desire I had, living in the country, with a small 15 acre farm with home and barns and plans for some livestock in the near future. I hope not to miss another reunion if given the opportunity.

Ramirez, Fernando
	Hi School Mates, I Just wanted to say hello and let you all know that on January 3, 2007 I'm happy to say that I'm retiring from the NAVY (DOD) with 36 years and 10 months of service to my country. As a civil servant I have worked for NAVFAC Southwest Command in San Diego, California basically for the majority of the time except for the 4 years and 7 months when I was in the NAVY. I married my high school girl friend Cecilia Vigil and have been happily married since 1973. We plan to continue living in San Diego and enjoy retirement in the sun shine state where you can play golf all year around. God Bless.

Smith, Jerry
	I left after I graduated and moved to Dallas to start work at Sears. I worked for them 12 years and have been in the retail furniture business since. I have been married for 27 years and have 3 sons and a 10 month old granddaughter. My wife is a massage therapist, oldest son Michael is a hardware store manager, middle son Lewis is a fireman and paramedic, My youngest son Quentin is a registered pharmacy tech. We live in Garland, Texas. We have been back 6 or 7 times to San Angelo. We can not go without stopping by and eating at Zentners Daughter restaurant.

Sparks, Ronald
	One thing is for sure, I could never have guessed what my life would be once I graduated. Every time I thought I had a plan, it changed. I was planning to go to Texas A&M. But, National Merit did me a bum deal and I turned them down and went to ASU. I had a great time and got lots of general stuff out of the way. I then transferred to A&M and majored in Electrical Engineering and extracurricular activities (I discovered girls). I planned to build computer/machine interfaces. But, a secretary mis-filed my card and I ended up as a Petroleum Engineer with Exxon in Midland. That set in motion a really weird path for me. During the next five years my life included underwater photography, skiing the Rockies, getting married to Inez, having two daughters, inventing a new drilling system, getting a patent, and changing companies to one called Union Texas. The next eight years are a blur but they included writing a new oilfield data system, Inez and I continuing to dive, raising two beautiful little girls, doing a merger, going through a buy out, doing an IPO, transferring to international operations, and finally moving my little family to the city of Karachi, Pakistan We lived in Pakistan for an eternity during the next three years! It included my group growing from four people to over 600, three evacuations of the family, one change of government by assassination, parties at the US consul general's, meeting and working and partying with 18 different nationalities. It was fun watching my daughters' birthday parties be attended by kids from every country in the world (including the communist ones). Inez continued to play piano professionally until a fall broke her wrist. She took up art. Finally, when the Gulf war broke out, we evacuated everyone to London. I opened the office there and we lived there for a year. We moved back to Katy, Texas in 1991 and over the next seven years proceeded into the education process. That meant readapting to our culture, dealing with Public Schools, tons of Inez's time in volunteer work and arty things, Band, Band Boosters, summer camps, boys, and lots and lots of kids and kid parties. All the while I was still working internationally developing Health, Safety, and Environmental programs. We felt settled and bought a bunch of acreage near west Houston. In 1998 CarrieLee (the eldest daughter), on a lark, decided to walk on at an SMU theater audition. She was selected as one of 14 that year to become a freshman in theater there. Meanwhile the rest of us planned to move to Jakarta, Indonesia. There is that ugly word "planned" again. While we were over there Suharto was deposed and almost simultaneously my company was bought by ARCO. We came back and after flying for 36 hours my youngest daughter (Kim) went in to the Univ. of North Texas and passed the test to enroll as a freshman while she was still a junior in high school. She was accepted to the Texas Academy of Math & Science program at UNT. How about that, I lost my job, took on a new mortgage, and both daughters enroll in college -- all at the same time. Well, I was six months too young for the "package" at work so I went out on my own. I have been an independent consultant ever since. After two years Kim transferred to A&M. Inez made a 180-degree shift and moved out of music and art. She now does computer and tech work at a local veterinarian. Both daughters graduate in 2002. So dear friends, through divine intervention I have been blessed with a most interesting and exciting AND scary life. Most importantly, I have a wonderful wife, and two great and beautiful daughters. Along the way I have been on six of the seven continents, designed and supervised replanting in the rainforests of Indonesia, and stood in a Soviet built nuclear reactor. I have swum in the Caspian, stood over the Indus, dove under coral reefs, fished the upper Kenai, and snorkeled in the Maldives. I have eaten chicken in the Himalayas, lost friends to terrorists, been a guest in the UK House of Lords, drunk tea with peasants in the desert, eaten sushi in a Tokyo penthouse club, and lived to see my thirty year reunion from Central. God has truly blessed this 'ole pig farmer from San Angelo - I have friends all over the world and some of the dearest are still the ones from San Angelo. I pray each of you have all the blessings you can stand!

Witherspoon, Jay
	Did some work as a mechanic for Mustang Chevrolet. Won the lottery, unfortunately it was the draft lottery... went into the Air Force to do radio repair work. Married Kathy Feb. 5, 1973. We went to Athens, Greece in '75 when Kathy was pregnant. It was a real treat to have a baby (Christie) in a foreign hospital where no one spoke English! Got out of the AF and went to ASU in September of '77. Had our first son (Joseph) in '79 and both of us graduated in 80. Went to work for TI in Dallas, transferring to Austin in '83. Had our other son (Travis) when I was visiting Kathy in Dallas for July 4th (we had not completed the move to Austin). Lucky break on that one... Went to work for IBM and spent 2 years in Rome and 1 year in London. Would love to go back overseas again! I enjoy water skiing, scuba diving, snow skiing, etc. I still play around with vehicles, I have a '54 Chevy truck (which is taking too long to restore and Kathy is threatening to put a "For Free" sign on it) and I am working on an '80 Harley Sportster.

Yancey, Guy
	Area Manager-Citibank NA

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