Clinton High School - Tornado Yearbook (Clinton, OK)

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1951-BIOGRAPHICAL UPDATES--2001 Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. My tinal Army assignment was at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas where I retired as a Colonel. 1 then worked for the state of Kansas tor ten years and retired again in 1988. Annette and 1 had four children. Our oldest son died at age 16 and our oldest daughter when she was 25. We have eight grandchildren and one great granddaughter. I enjoy woodworking and golf I love pleasing God and have been a Sunday School teacher since 1960. Annette stays busy doing volunteer work at the hospital and the local crisis center. We look forward to visiting with everyone at our big reunion in June. 2001 .rw 'Mr' A j. 'vii' we 2. - ' 'A 2 . . 'ab , Ila Belle fBasket1 Smith P.O. Box 5 Colony. OK 73021 f5801 929-7210 2001 You may recall that in my junior year I married Truman Smith and moved to a farm southeast of Hydro. We stayed there for two and a half years and in 1953 we moved to Clinton and run the PeeWee Grill for a couple of years. ln 1955 we opened a Maytag store but more importantly 1 went back to high school and finished in 1956. By this time we had two children. ln 1960 Truman became a preacher and we moved to a church in Rocky where we also farmed for three years. In 1963 we moved to Colony, 1 attended an advanced beauty school in 1970 and began working in a bank in 1974-1976. ln august 1976 we opened a cafe in Colony and began catering in 1980. We are still in that business plus we started a bed and breakfast and a wedding chapel in 1998. We are definitely not retired. We have three children and four grand children. We have been and still are very busy. Quay Ann fBentonj Grunewald 817 Blackburn Grand Prairie, TX 75050 1951 Quay Ann Benton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Benton, 224 North Eleventh, another graduating senior is planning to he a music teacher after she graduates from college with a Bachelor cy' Music education. At Clinton High School this year she won the annual Northrup Music Award and letter in vocal and instrumental music. Miss Benton has attended Clinton Schools for twelve years. She attended Nance and Washington grade schools. 2001 After the big G day in 1951, 1 attended OSU QOAMC, in those daysj until that Hfatefulw day in 1953 when I married Kenneth Grunewald. But we have come

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1951-BIOGRAPHICAL UPDATES--2001 John Armstrong Deceased. 1951 John plans to attend college at A. and M or OU afer graduation. He has attended Clinton schools-for his entire education and is the son ofMr. and Mrs. Ab Armstrong, John was a member ofthe student council when a feshman and played baseball with the American Legion team. He is employed by the C. R. Anthony department store. 2001 After graduating ftom high school, John Uohnnyj attended OU and received a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering. As part of the ROTC program in college, John was required to serve in the U.S. Army. He was a captain stationed in Hawaii for two years. While in Hawaii, John made some beautiful wood ftuniture that his wife, Mary, who he married when he was 32, still has. John and Mary have three children: Mike, Christie and Kelly. John also, has two grandchildren: Nadine, fMike'sJ and Hunter fKelley,sJ, neither of which he ever got to meet. After the Army, John worked for Phillips for approximately 25 years as Drilling Superintendent in Texas and then Arkansas. After Phillips, John worked for Exeter Drilling Co. for the remaining 10 years of his life as Drilling Manager first in Louisiana and then back to Texas. John died in Houston on March 27, 1991 of a heart attack. John was a special individual and is missed dearly by his family. 5 X , V: ag 6 Y Ronnie Baggett 110 N. Pine s1,P.o. B651 716 Linden, rx 75563 19031 756-7481 1951 Son if Mr. and Mrs. Ted Baggett who are now living in Sayre, Oklahoma. Ronnie has been in Clinton schools since hisfreshman year. He has been active in vocal music and speech work, winning the trophy for the most outstanding actor at the district one- act play Contest this year. He plans to enter Southwestern State College this fall. 2001 After graduation I attended Southwestem until I was drafted into the Army. I stayed in for twenty-seven years! In 1954 I married another CHS graduate, Annette Thomas, C531 I had assignments in Germany, France, Ft. Lewis Washington, and at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. I also spent several years at Fort Sill as an instructor in Nuclear Target Analysis. I had other tours in Korea and Viet Nam. I received my degree fiom Cameron University in 1972. After a four- year stint in Hawaii. I attended the US

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1951--BIOGRAPHICAL UPDATES--2001 through these past 48 yer without too many bruises, and we are fairly well intact! Really though it's been a great marriage and hardly seems possible that we are itsenior citizens? Ken had eight brothers and sisters, so I, being the only one, inherited a large wonderful family. It took me a couple of years to get use to this, but how thankful I am now, and have been through the years, for all of them. Just before we were married, Ken was inducted into the Army, so we spent the first two years of marriage in San Antonio, Texas. After his stint there, we moved to Weatherford, Oklahoma to finish our schooling. We both needed about the same amount of' hours to finish. He majored in sports and I in music. Since he wanted to be a coach and teach. I decided to get my degree in music education and teach also. I was with childs' when we returned to Weatherford so it took me a little longer to finish, but we graduated together in the summer of 1957. Our first child, a boy, Kevin was born in 1955. He is now 45 years old and he is also a teacher. He played professional golf for several years after graduating from TCU. He also married a teacher and went back to school to get his teaching certificate, He and his wife, Teresa, both teach in the Mansfield CTXJ I.S.D. He teaches high school chemistry and she works in the ESL Cteaching other languagesl. They have two daughters, Laura, 15 and Katy Ann, age 10. Our first jobs after graduation were in Mooreland, OK. We spent four years there, Ken being basketball coach and assistant football coach. I taught music in the elementary grades and private lessons, also. While in Mooreland, our second child was born, a girl named Karla. She is married and owns and works in her beauty salon in Grand Prairie. She and her husband have two daughters, Alane, 8 years and Alison, 6 years of' age. Alan is with Southwest Airlines, CWe get a free ticket now and thenj. Alter our four years in Mooreland, we were in Wellington, TX. for only a year before moving on to Arlington, Texas in 1962. Ken again coached several schools in Arlington, where he retired with 35 years in 1989. I taught music again, until 1977. During this time our little caboose', came along. Kelly was bom in 1968. After his college days, he turned professional in golf He has played a lot of the mini-tours since 1992. Last year he played on the Buy.com fOld Nike tourl and was among the top 15 money winners CS200,000j. So that qualified him to play on the PGA tour. this being his first year. He and his wife Kelley falsoj have one daughter, Riley, 2 years old. They live across the street from our daughter here in Grand Prairie. We are so proud and thankful for our three children and that they all live so close. Needless to say, Ken and I have spent a good deal of traveling all over to watch Kelly play golff Ken plays golf nearly every day, also when we are at home. I love to read, read, read! I also have done lots of handwork fknitting. crocheting, needlepointj through the years and still do when the mood strikes me. I quit teaching in 1977, had just had enough of it. I have had several ucareersw, trying to find another Pnichei' I guess. I worked for the Texas Rangers Baseball Club from its inception in 1971-1982. this was mostly part-time and in the summer I was still teaching. I worked there afitll- timei' from 1979-1982. Had lots of fun and enjoyed it tremendously! I also studied Real Estate and got my license only to find out it just wasnit my cup of tea. I purchase a small antique-resale shop in Grand Prairie, and had fun fnot much profitj with that for a couple of years before closing up.