MELODY LANDON '65

Hello Gloria ...thanks for thinkin' of us...meanin' my brother Pat (Pat Landon '64) and myself...sure wish we could make it down there to see you guys...know you all are gonna have a blast!! I was class of '65 and Pat 64 ...Dad went to Viet Nam and we moved to California so neither of us graduated from Randolph. I have often wondered what happened to all you guys. We live in California in our hometown and have for years...we live on the same street on the old family farm...both of us been hitched and unhitched and have some kids and some grandkids.
I consider myself retired ....whoooooooopeeeee........
Anyway you guys rawk on!!
To find out more about me and my family I have a yahoo360 page
http://360.yahoo.com/msgruntled
Melody "Dee" Landon

msgruntled2006@yahoo.com

STAN SUMNER '64

 

VIVA FIESTA...VIVA SAN ANTONIO.

STAN "Cal" SUMNER
aka "Fiesta Hat King" of SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

SEE: FIESTA PICTURES OF CAL IN EARLIER POSTINGS

Cool Cars, Cool Ro-Hawks

Hey you guys!!! Here is a picture of Linda Molleston and her friends in 1963 or '64, maybe at North Star Mall. Was there a Montgomery Ward there? L to R: Barbara Thielke, Linda Lopes and Linda Molleston in '63 or '64 Linda was class of '65, Linda Lopes '66 and Barbara Thielke '66. Check out the cool cars.

Remember -- click on the picture to make it larger....
Submitted by Linda and John Molleston

CHRISTINE KESTERSON '67

Hi Gloria,

I saw the posting of the 63-64 RHS cheeleaders and I thought I should make a contribution from the 66-67 cheerleaders. The megaphone shot has always been a favorite of mine.

I've been here in New Braunfels since my Dad passed away in 1999. I came here to be with my Mom who doesn't drive. We don't live together, but I'm located close to her. I really haven't contacted anyone. I can't believe so much time has passed. It was hard transitioning from Dallas to here. The salary cut took awhile to adjust to, but here I am at FUA Window Coverings as their sales & marketing manager. I've been here for about 4 years and most days I really enjoy it. I'm looking forward to the reunion to make contact with you and the other Rohawks in the area. See you at the game on Friday.

Christine Kesterson '67
Sales & Marketing Manager
FUA Window Coverings
899 South Castell
New Braunfels TX 78130
830 608 0694
830 608 0677 fax
888 857 9195 toll free
ckesterson@fuawindowcoverings.com
http://www.fuawindowcoverings.com/

Linda McKinney (Molleston) ’65 and John Molleston ‘68

Linda McKinney (Molleston) ‘65

It has been fun seeing all the pictures from the past and I am sure that everyone will have a great time at the reunion. My brother John (Class of 68) will have to represent the Molleston family as I have had three straight weeks of travel and have company through September 7.

How to distill 43 years in a few paragraphs? After graduating I spent a year at Southwestern University (with Pam Pratt and John Hartig) then moved on to North Texas State. I ended up in Washington, D.C. in 1968 and lived there until I moved to Colorado in 1998. After five years of working as the administrative assistant to the senior partner of a law firm and primarily concentrating on my social life, I decided to take the winter off and think about what I wanted to do next. I spent a winter in Steamboat Springs skiing and having a great time and decided to move to Colorado permanently.

Fate intervened. While back in DC tying up loose ends, I got a job offer with an association in their convention and meetings department. That was the beginning of a career in the hospitality industry that is still continuing today. My job with the association led to a job with the largest producer of conventions and special events in the US where for over 15 years I was involved with sales and marketing while still producing a couple of large trade shows. I got the chance to meet an amazing array of people including all the US presidents from Reagan through Clinton and from public figures like Colin Powell to the Hollywood types like Kevin Costner and Don Johnson (during the height of Miami Vice mania). I also had the opportunity to serve on a number of company boards so the 15 years went quickly. By 98 I was tired of living on an airplane, tired of DC and ready for a change. I was thinking of joining a colleague who did sales training in the hospitality industry when the phone rang and I got an offer to manage the trade show division of a publishing company and it was based in Denver.

After 28 months working for a big public company and running both the east and west divisions (a week in Denver, a week in New York) I decided it was time for a change and did what I never thought I would do – I started my own business on October 1, 2000.

Fortunately, when I moved to Denver, I bought a house just outside Vail so the world headquarters of McKinney & Company is just 15 miles west of Vail and 6 miles west of Beaver Creek. My business does take me out of the mountains about once a month but the rest of the time I live in the beautiful Colorado Rockies at 7500 feet. The majority of my business is consulting for major convention destinations including Washington, DC, Atlanta, San Antonio, Baltimore, Denver and Chicago. I also do some customer service training for the front line staff in convention centers. Business is good and I am still having fun so no thoughts of retirement.

For the first time, I have time to play and living that close to Vail I get in about 60 days of skiing a season. I work on Vail Mountain on the weekends in guest service. I spend some time in Europe each fall and spend most of May in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Another great thing about being my own boss is that I have time for my other new interest – cooking.

For someone who was not the least interested in sports in high school, I now ski and snowshoe in the winter and hike in the summer and for most of the 90’s rode horses in Virginia. Of course, that has led to a few broken bones and I have more than my share of metal in my body. I blew out my knee this spring skiing so I’ve added a metal plate and a few screws to the leg. After 12 weeks on crutches I am walking again and I will have the ski boots on when the mountain opens November 23.

I am looking forward to hearing all about the reunion from John and hopefully there will be lots of pictures.

Linda McKinney (Molleston)

Pictures:  Current pictures of Linda, Reid and Dorothy Molleston and John.


John Molleston ‘68

Although Linda is three years my senior, she is still able to hike me under the table, or is that off the mountain, whenever I visit her in Vail. I blame it on the high altitude.

I’ve lived in Austin since I graduated from RHS and I retired this week after 36 years in state government at the Texas General Land Office. I’ve been privileged to be senior researcher for the Archives of the General Land Office. Our archives consist of 36 million documents that tell the story of the history of land settlement in Texas.

I plan on taking a month off and then mull over new job opportunities. I am leaning toward accepting a position as senior greeter at a local Walmart. Or I may study medicine and become a surgeon so I can remove that creepy third hand growing out of Linda’s left shoulder.

Our younger sister Julie, who went to Randolph Elementary, is living in Los Angeles. She is Vice President of Human Resources for Sony Pictures Digital Production. They are the folks who make the animated features like “Surf’s Up” and “Open Season” and they also do the visual effects for movies like “Beowulf” and “I Am Legend” and “Hancock.” She is excited about two upcoming Sony distributed releases: The new James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace” coming this winter (I’ll be there) and a new animated film, “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs” coming in 2010. I think they are striking a special print of “Cloudy” in two-track mono so it can play at the RAFB Theater and rock the joint. If any of you don’t like these movies, please contact Julie for a refund. I get to hear great stories from her about the movie biz and look forward to a visit and tour of the Sony Lot.

I have to think that our five years at Randolph went a long way in shaping our lives for the better. Our parents, Reid and Dorothy Molleston, and the parents of our friends at Randolph, many of them gone now, deserve our undying admiration and gratitude for all the support and love, for all these years.

John Molleston ‘68

CONNIE BEST '69

Gloria—Thank you for all your work in organizing the reunion and for the opportunity to post on your blog. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about my classmates. It brought back a lot of great memories of RHS and the wonderful people there.

My name is Connie Best and I attended all four years at RHS graduating in 1969. My plans for attending UT changed that summer when my dad retired. My parents were both from South Carolina and decided that we would move back “home.” I really lost touch with everyone so I am looking forward to the reunion.

Here’s my quick summary. I graduated from the University of South Carolina (the real USC) with a degree in Psychology; worked for 5 years; went back to Texas for 3 years to get a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at N.T.S.U.; and came back to Charleston where I have been on the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina since 1983. I am a Professor in the Psychiatry Department where I teach, see patients, and do research primarily in the field of post traumatic stress disorder. I feel so fortunate because I like my work and the people that I work with, and because of my work I have had the opportunity to do a lot of interesting things. For example, I was invited to be the “expert” on Oprah twice (obviously, I’m no Dr. Phil).

But as much as I like my work, the thing that is most important to me is my family. I guess I was sort of a “late bloomer” in the family department. I didn’t get married until I was 40 and had a baby at 43. I met my husband, Paul, through the Navy Reserve and talked him into leaving land-locked Georgia and moving to beautiful Charleston with the great ocean breezes (and a little bit of humidity). We have been happily married for 17 years. Paul is now retired from dentistry and we are both retired from the Navy Reserves. We have a 14 year old daughter named Lucy who is the light of our lives. All you former Air Force kids might be pleased to know that Lucy is continuing in the military tradition by joining the A.F. JROTC as she begins her freshman year in high school. Our family is rounded out by Paul’s two daughters (one in Atlanta and one in Phoenix), two son-in-laws, and our soon to be 4th grandchild. Sadly, my dad passed away in 1978. However, my mom lives in an independent facility about 4 miles from us, and even though she has dementia, her long term memory is good and she remembers many of you. And we all still look like the pictures in the yearbook, right?

I can’t wait to see everyone. Go Ro-Hawks!

PAM PRATT VILES '65

Hi, Gloria. While the Ro-Hawks are gathered in San Antonio, Bob and I are going to be in Bastrop at the annual meeting of the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists. As he is a past President, it is a command performance.

We moved to Sugar Land in 1976 when it was still a small company town. We spent 21 years in one house, then downsized when the girls left home. We've been in another house ever since. Having moved so frequently as an Air Force brat, I never dreamt I would put down such long term roots. I am shocked at how much stuff (read junk) we've accumulated since being settled in one place. Remember how our families traveled light, keeping only the items we needed at the time? We rarely even had any furniture of our own, which is why my mother always made friends with someone at Base Operations as soon as we arrived at a new assignment.

Bob retired from the operating room in 1990 after his illness, and is now a half-time medical director for a large hospital system in Houston. I spent many years volunteering for various charities and sitting on the Foundation Board for the same hospital system, until someone realized that I was eleven years into a nine year term. Since then, I try to do as little as possible.

Our elder daughter, Pippa, is a high school counselor married to an English teacher. They had a baby girl on 8/8/08, and named her Emeline. Our younger daughter, Chelsea, passed the bar exam three years ago, but rarely puts on her lawyer hat. She works for a large commercial mortgage company putting industrial investors together with deals. Despite the current economy, she is surprisingly busy.

Bob and I enjoy travelling and do as much of it as we can. So far we haven't made it to the Far East, but that is about the only place we've missed.

Please send my fond regards to our classmates. Some of those who graduated in 1967 might remember my brother, Bill Pratt. He didn't graduate from RHS, because our parents had been sent to Germany by then, but he was there for several years. Bill died in 1995.

I enclose some photos: my elder daughter Pippa, Chelsea with her boyfriend, Emeline as a newborn, and one of me taken a few weeks ago in Pensacola.


Love to all,

Pam Pratt Viles '65

2008 RO-HAWK FOOTBALL INFO

Submitted by Bill Borellis

Janet Francis Murillo and her husband Ray

July 2008 New baby Clydesdale at a ranch in Divide. Her name is Liberty and she was born the day before we saw her.

Submitted by Janet Francis Murillo '64

THE CARS WE DROVE IN THE 50'S AND 60'S

Check out this web site --- submitted by Dennis Bianchi '64

http://cruzintheavenue.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

SUSIE (Linda Tucker Prater) HOMEMAKER

Linda Tucker Prater, Marty Lindley, Gloria Campbell Gallagher and Kathy Dailey Norton at Gloria's house. This is the first pie cooked by Linda ---- It was as delicious as it was BEAUTIFUL!! See, you are never to old to learn new tricks!! Oh, wait, did I say that out loud? Is there any more pie left? No, I think Jeff ate the last piece....... yummy

VISIT WITH ROBERT AND JAN DEMOTTA

Robert arriving at the Oasis



John Hines with friend

I was up in Austin picking up my girlfriend, Mary, from her hotel with John in tow (well, John drove my truck because I'm a little wimpy on the highway - thanks John). We decided to take Mary to the Oasis Restaurant on Lake Travis (just to show off). Then I remembered that Robert told me to call him next time I was in Austin so we did. He lives around the corner from the restaurant. So we ended up at Robert's house. We had a great afternoon! Thanks Rob and Jan for showing us your house and for your great hospitality. Don't forget to bring the football films to the party Robert. Maybe Coach Nelson will be there and we can all figure out what went wrong on Friday nite!!!

POOL SHOTS 1963

If you can identify anyone please add it to the comments section below.... thanks
Photos submitted by Ronald Futch '63

(Remember, click on the picture and it will get larger and then you can read the names and see them better).

CHEERLEADERS '63-'64

Lynn Martin, Carol Hines

Sue Turner, Janet Watkins, Becky Mahr

SUE OHMAN BALDWIN '67

Sue Ohman Baldwin RHS '67 lassue@aol.com

I have been reading Gloria’s blog (thank you, Gloria!) for awhile now, and have loved it. I thought I might just go ahead and put my two cents worth in.

I have wonderful memories of Randolph High School. I’ve been happy to have stayed in touch with Steff Burgoon (Parker) over the years, and Kurt Linhof and all of his adventures, and have had a couple of nice visits with Carolyn Armold (Torrence) and Colleen Mahoney. I was so sad to learn of John Stampley’s death last summer, and Steff’s brother, Steve, in December.

After graduation in 1967, I went to Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia (or as Tony Hyde wrote in my yearbook: “Best of luck at that Lady’s College...by the way it sounds, you’ll probably need it!”)

I met my future husband (Bill Baldwin) there my senior year~he was from New York and was an art student at Lynchburg College. After graduation, we lived in Washington, DC~I was the personal secretary for an Iowa Congressman for 3 years, and Bill was a street vendor in Georgetown with his leather and metal crafts. (I seem to recall running into Bonnie Reed one day while we were set up, and another time, Jan Owenby~whew! That was a LONG time ago!)
After the Congressman I was working for lost his election in the mid 70’s, I started working with Bill full time, and we have been doing Art and Craft shows throughout the country ( mostly the East Coast) ever since. I have sent along a couple of examples of our work to give you an idea of what we do.

In the late 70’s, during a visit with friends in Lynchburg, we saw our dream home, bought it, and that’s where we’ve lived ever since, with a variety of animals (now, 4 cats), but no kids. Luckily, we have wonderful nieces and nephews who are very dear to us. My Dad retired in 1972, and lived in San Antonio until his death in 1993, and my step-mother still lives at the Army Retirement Center near Randolph. Bill and I have been able to travel the world, although we especially like the British Virgin Islands, and the East Coast of Mexico for trips together during our time off. Bill is an avid skier, and skis everywhere he can~from Slovenia (!) to Chamonix, to Zermatt, and I have fallen in love with Mexico, particularly the area around Guadalajara, where I go every winter (to warm up, mostly, while Bill’s in Europe with the snow!)

We are scheduled to do an art show in Northern Virginia the weekend of the RHS reunion, and Bill is doing it by himself, as he has encouraged me to fly to San Antonio for the weekend. Can’t wait.





An Example of our work~wearable leather "grape" mask





Another one of our pieces~leather butterfly, feather mask



Sue in Mexico~Rio Caliente (my favorite place to go in the winter)
near Guadalajara.




In Tulum, (Another favorite place), Mexico for our 30th Anniversary




Ryan and Nannette (Ohman) Menath ~my niece and the closest
to a daughter I'll ever have...2001 USAFA grads and now pilots and Majors in the Air Force with Bill and me




Sue and Steff (Burgoon '67) Parker and Husbands Bill Raissle and Bill Baldwin on the Riverwalk in San Antonio not too long ago.




Bill Baldwin meets Kurt Linhof (RHS '67) during a visit to Colorado



Our House in Lynchburg

JUDY SHEPARD a/k/a Judith Chapman '69

Hey Gloria, Judy Shepard...aka Judith Chapman...class of...'69...Okay, I finally got it out...LOL...Hey, I live in Hollywood...hard to admit, or even believe so much time has passed....It has been pretty remarkable reading about the hard work and development of this upcoming reunion...Because of you I found one of my dearest RHS pals...Martha Madsen...we are now emailing..and I hope to get to Russia for a visit next year. Judy Sisk and I have been writing, talking for a couple of years now. Don't know how far your grape vine goes, but to catch you up, have been blessed with a life long carreer in acting, branching out to direct, produce, and teach for a time at College of the Desert...near Palm Springs...where I spend my time when not working in Los Angeles.. I am currently on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS on CBS http://www.judithchapman.com/ ....I'm not a real GLORIA, but I do play one on T.V.!!! The schedule is pretty hectic since Daytime does not take a hiatus....and rarely know my schedule more than 2-3 weeks away....I am on a break right now...a lull in my storyline...and am writing you from Atlanta where I am for my family reunion...When I get back to LA...will see what my schedule looks like...But I'm really thinking about popping down, if only for Saturday...There are familiar names...and a lot of names....that aren't so familiar...the bi product of our great fortune to have lived in so many different places while we were growing up.....I am sorry it has taken me so long to write you, but here I am now...and I hope you are taking long deep breaths in these last hectic weeks...Namaste....Judith...oops...Judy msjujubelle@gmail.com

8/31/08 Hey, Gloria, I have been struggling with this for weeks now., and sad to report it just isn't in the cards this year. Both of my sisters are in Europe. One lives there, and the other is on a several week vacation...My Father has taken a turn for the worse, and Mother really would like me to be there...more for her I think. But with the precious little time I have available, think it is wiser to fly over the reunion and get to Florida...Hard to party with a clear conscience,...our family is so spread out..Know you understand, but my best to anyone who knows me and hopefully another year...Have a great Boot Stompin' Ro-Hawk time....judy