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Friday, September 15, 2017
WILLIAM M. RANDOLPH, CAPTAIN Deceased
Friday, August 04, 2017
Randolph High School Homecoming 2017 Update
October 13th - Save the Date
2017 HOMECOMING GAME - Friday, October 13th, at 7:30 PM.
Tickets to the game will be sold at the gate before the game
This year’s Theme is “Welcome Back to the Future”! See the new education building, new cafeteria, new gym, new baseball field, and new softball field. Visit your campus education building before it is replaced by new campus construction. Attend the pregame alumni gathering of Alums Friday before the game in the new cafetorium. See below.
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| New Ro-Hawk Cafetorium and Gym |
ALL ALUMNI ARE TO PLEASE GATHER PREGAME IN THE NEW CAFETORIUM AT 6:00 PM
Visit with your alum classmates before touring the campus on your own. Mike Miller of the new Randolph Field Education Foundation will say a few words. We are hoping Superintendent Lance Johnson will speak also.
The Base High School gate opens at 5:00 PM for the Pregame meeting; you can only access the school via the High School Gate off of 1604. All internal base perimeter roads will be blocked to through traffic. Please note that you will need to see the campus BEFORE the game because the doors will be locked later.
BRIEF REDEDICATION OF THE RESTORED MICKLER MEMORIAL
at its new location will take place prior to the game with Robert Mickler III and players of the 1967 State Semi-Finals Champions - Time 5:45 PM in front of the Ticket Booth
See the following tributes/awards presented on the field:
§ Presentation of the John Bridges Band Director Award – Outstanding Student Band Member recipient to be selected by current Band Director Hector Perez. Presented by John and Hector Perez and an alumni band members to the band student selected.
§ Presentation of the Captain William M. Randolph Outstanding AFJROTC Cadet Award for Outstanding Commitment to Service, Excellence and Integrity. This is the first time this award has been presented at RHS. RHS student cadet selected as outstanding cadet from 250 cadets observed for at least a calendar year.
§ Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 State Finals Football Team – Members on the Field at halftime
§ We need your help--- We have found contact information for 22 players/coaches/managers and are inviting them. Steve Swinney and Bruce Cannon have volunteered to lead the effort in finding 1967 team members. Please contact them if you know where one of these players or Coaches are and provide their contact information-
Players - Ron Kaulani Aki, Paul Baumgardner and Franz St. George.
Managers – Bill Buel, Mack Nettles
All Alums – PLEASE STAY TO THE END OF THE GAME AND COME on Field for Pictures with Band and Cheer Leaders
v At the end of the game the band will conduct their UIL/Alum 10 minute concert. Then we will ask all alums to come on the field and for pictures with the Band and Cheer leaders.
HOMECOMING SOUVENIER T-SHIRTS
Below is a picture of the new Ro-Hawk Homecoming 2017 T-Shirt which can be ordered at the bigfrog website www.bigfrognb.com.
Five Dollars of the purchase price goes to the Randolph Field Education foundation to support the students and teachers of RFISD. Adding a Personal Touch - Editing of Class, Name and Military Insignia for sleeve, etc. is also available.
CLASS OF 2017 - THE SPIRIT IS STILL THERE!
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Saturday, October 14th
The BBQ at the High School has been canceled and replaced by a Concert at Bluebonnet Palace in Selma
Bluebonnet Palace
17630 Lookout Road, Selma, Tx 78154
(210) 651-6702
bluebonnetpalace.com
Early entry for Alums Starts at 3 PM for meet and greet. Drinks are available to purchase. Food Service Starts at 5:00 PM
Ticket Price Includes meal - Stay as long as you like!!
Click below for tickets
Randolph Field Military Child Benefit October Fest at Blue Bonnet Palace on Saturday, October 14 - http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1550814-randolph-field-military-child-selma/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=msh
The BBQ at the High School has been canceled and replaced by a Concert at Bluebonnet Palace in Selma
Bluebonnet Palace
17630 Lookout Road, Selma, Tx 78154
(210) 651-6702
bluebonnetpalace.com
Early entry for Alums Starts at 3 PM for meet and greet. Drinks are available to purchase. Food Service Starts at 5:00 PM
Ticket Price Includes meal - Stay as long as you like!!
Randolph Field Military Child Benefit October Fest at Blue Bonnet Palace on Saturday, October 14 - http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1550814-randolph-field-military-child-selma/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=msh
Thank you - and let’s have a BLAST!! FOREVER ROHAWKS!!!
Mike Scott '67
Gloria Campbell Gallagher '65
Monday, June 05, 2017
THE ROHAWK STORY POSTER 2017
Dear Ro-Hawks
This is your story. This is how the Ro-Hawk developed and the fellow classmates who made it happen! The poster below has the story as written by Jeff Anderson, Class of '63.
This poster will be presented to the school at half-time in a larger version at the next homecoming game which will be Friday, October 13, 2017 at Randolph High School. The poster will be hung on a prominent place in the new building, hopefully, close to where the Ro-Hawk Mosaic will be re-hung. There will be no question now as to the Randolph High School Ro-Hawk was born!
To view the poster click on the picture and it will magnify.
This is your story. This is how the Ro-Hawk developed and the fellow classmates who made it happen! The poster below has the story as written by Jeff Anderson, Class of '63.
This poster will be presented to the school at half-time in a larger version at the next homecoming game which will be Friday, October 13, 2017 at Randolph High School. The poster will be hung on a prominent place in the new building, hopefully, close to where the Ro-Hawk Mosaic will be re-hung. There will be no question now as to the Randolph High School Ro-Hawk was born!
We are Forever Ro-Hawks!!
To view the poster click on the picture and it will magnify.
All Ro-Hawks are invited to attend the Homecoming Game on October 13, 2017 and more information will follow. The 1967 FOOTBALL TEAM 50 year recognition as the only team (YET) to go to the State Finals will be honored at half-time and we are trying to find all the Players, Coaches and Managers. If you were on the team in 1967 and have not been contacted yet, please contact Bruce or Steve and give them your information:
Bruce Cannon cannon47@aol.com
Steve Swinney sswinney19@gmail.com
(See the names of the guys we are looking for at the end of this post)
You will be able to tour the school and the new buildings prior to the school and there will be a reception for all alumni. On Saturday there will be another BBQ, but it will be held in the new gymatorium. You will be able to see the new baseball and softball fields that have been built next to the football field. You will be able to view the new refurbished Mickler Plaque. There are more awesome things happening and I will let you know as soon as I have the go-ahead to tell you.
Hoping to see a lot of Ro-Hawks next Fall and hoping to beat the attendance from last year!!!
FOREVER RO-HAWKS!
Gloria Campbell Gallagher '65
STATE SEMI-FINAL CHAMPIONS 1967
1. Ron Aki
2. Tex Allshouse
3. Jan Baumgardner
4. Paul Baumgardner
5. Dave Bergquist
6. Tom Bice
7. Steve Bland
8. Bruce Cannon
9. Keith Chauret
10. Ted Draper
11. Jim Fleming
12. Mike Fitzpatrick
13. Terry Fox
14. Mark Greaver
15. Steve Griem
16. Chris Hanseman
17. Jim Meredith
18. Andy Miller
19. Bill Osborne
20. Tom Roberdeau
21. Mike Stampley
22. Franz St. George
23. Steve Swinney
24. Rick Troberman
Coaches
1. Bob Mickler
2. Louis Nelson
3. Don Scott
4. Bill Lee
Managers
1. Bill Buel
2. Jerry Brown
3. Jim Ramsey & Mack Nettles
Saturday, June 03, 2017
Jim Dieterich and Bob White...Sailing in the Caribbean.
Say "hi" to Jim Dieterich ('66), his wife Carole, son Todd and lady friend Amy. Here in the British Virgin Islands aboard the sailing yacht HoloHolo. The start of an amazing week of sailing, fishing, snorkeling, eating and drinking well with Bob White ('66) as captain and Miriam Molinet holding forth in the galley.
Jim and I graduated together in 1966, went on to study at Univ. of Texas and then wandered apart where we remained until meeting up at a Gloria-organized reunion. Thanks Gloria. In my fifties I found my life in a bit of turmoil and so made the decision to pursue a life at sea, a dream I had kept under covers for all those years of chasing dollars, spending them as quickly as they were caught. And so I went to sea. After 7 years in the Caribbean running charter yachts in and around the Virgin Islands and south to Grenada, I am now living in Texas and helping my parents in the last chapter of their time here. My father passed away in February, mom carries on, now aged 95.
Jim reached out to me a few months ago having visited The Home Port, my charter-a-yacht-with-cap'n bob Facebook page where I do a little promo in hopes of taking a few folks each year down to the islands for a sailing adventure. Seems it had been on his bucket list to do just that...now was the time. Jim and Carole have two sons, one with a 2 yr. old son...unfortunately that's a bit young for this type of trip...and then there is Todd. Todd and his lady friend Amy joined us. And so we were Jim, Carole, Todd, Amy, Miriam (chef and 1st mate) and yours truly aboard a fine 45' sailing catamaran chartered out of Tortola in the British Virgins.
Jim is an avid and skilled fisherman and he made it clear that he was not about to spend a week on/in the water without doing some fishing. The island of Anegada provided the opportunity for a day of bone fishing on the shallow flats, and Jim and Todd were all over it....caught some nice fish too! Jim spent hours trolling from the boat, finally catching a really nice tuna on our last day. And oh that tuna was tasty!
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
THE REFURBISHED MICKLER PLAQUE !!!
THE PLACEMENT OF THE REFURBISHED MICKLER PLAQUE
Bobby Mickler has had his father's plaque refurbished and here it is all shiny and new. The plaque has been placed on the ticket building so everyone will be able to see it when coming into the Mickler Memorial Field which was re-dedicated in 2001. (Thanks to Mike Scott '67, who began the move to make sure the Randolph Ro-Hawks know and remember the past Ro-Hawk traditions and memorials.) Thanks to everyone who had a hand in making sure the incoming Ro-Hawks know who COACH Robert W. Mickler was.
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| The Refurbished plaque |
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| The old damaged plaque which was near the field and was unrecognizable |
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| The newly painted ticket booth |
The Robert Mickler Memorial plaque has been restored and re-hung. A few years ago Mike Scott and I (Gloria) noticed that the plaque was just put on a pole by the football field and it was hardly readable. So that led us to investigate what happened with the upkeep. We found out that hardly anybody at the school knew that the plaque was there or even who Robert Mickler was!!! How could that be? Who is in charge of school history? We contacted Mark and Keith Chauret because their father (who by the way is still alive at 94!) ......... Chauret and the Chauret family had been instrumental in placing the plaque and re-naming the football field. So we called around and tried to collect some money from some Ro-Hawks to be used to restore the plaque and we ended up talking with Mark Chauret who said he had $4,700 in a bank account that had been sitting there for 16 years from the original Mickler Memorial funds. Robert Mickler's son, Bobby Mickler III took the plaque to a restoration company and they restored the plaque for $565. Mark asked that the remaining funds go to The Randolph Field Education Foundation with the stipulation that they be used in a scholarship fund in Robert Mickler's name!
A B-29 IS REBORN!
Submitted by Tom Madsen, Class of '66
COMMENTS:
Thank you for this, my dad flew many missions in these wonderful planes, and thankfully, came back home to bring me into the world.I'll watch it for sure.
This is a ‘quick video’ of an item from our ‘parents’ time. It is worth watching, I think. The one thing that caught my attention was that it took 30 years for these people to bring the airplane ‘to flight’.
Thanks to my friend Don for sending this to me and then onto you.
Drive ‘safely’ out there, please.
Tom Madsen
Subject: A B-29 is reborn............
This will make you tear-up, even if you're not a flyboy...
COMMENTS:
Thank you for this, my dad flew many missions in these wonderful planes, and thankfully, came back home to bring me into the world.I'll watch it for sure.
Best,
Martha Madsen '69
Wonderful story of historic restoration. One can imagine the phantoms of all our late dads waving at the airplane as it rises in the sky.
Thomas Roberdeau '68
Not sure how this email got forwarded to me, but my dad also flew B-29's late in the Pacific WWII - 6 missions total. If he were still alive he'd be 100 years old. Thanks for sharing the video.
Bob Ficke '67
bobficke@gmail.com
PS The comment section is open. You should be able to add your comments. If you have a problem just email me your comment and I will add it here. Thanks, Gloria
PS The comment section is open. You should be able to add your comments. If you have a problem just email me your comment and I will add it here. Thanks, Gloria
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