Listed as "Best Personality" and "All Around Senior Girl" my big mouth was willed to Shirley Burnett! Guess I still love to talk and visit with friends and still love to come to Ryan, though none of my family is there now. But the Class of '51 remains strong and we usually get together several times a year. I did all 12 years in the Ryan schools and owe a debt of gratitude to the fine teachers we had there. That education won a scholarship for me to both OSU and OU (the OU was never used) and a music education degree with voice emphasis. I taught public school music in Ft. Worth, Waco, Austin, Garland & Richardson ISD's for 28 years and took 11 years to stay home with our three children, Cliff, Lance and Janell. While in Austin I obtained a Master of Music Education from UT-Austin so I still have Orange blood all the way! And didn't we have an exciting year!!!

I married my college sweetheart, Cole Reginal King "Reg" in 1953, so we've chalked up 52 years already and are going strong. We've just returned from a 12 day cruise thru the Panama Canal and points in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Grand Caymans. It was terrific!

I've been retired for seven years and Reg is a retired Baptist minister, but in his second career teaches computer science at Richland Community College and is "man Friday" for our neighbors, The Scott Roofing Company.

It's been our privilege to tour a great deal of our wonderful universe partly on mission trips to Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, and Nigeria and pleasure trips thru China, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Germany, France, Spain and England.

I'm active in women's Bible Study at our church, Park Cities Baptist, and the Richardson Retired Teachers Association. (I play piano dinner music for our monthly meetings during the school year.) Also, Sigma Alpha Iota, a college/alumnae Music Fraternity as a Dallas Alumnae Member consumes a great deal of my time and has vastly enriched my music life with hundreds of music friends. Delta Kappa Gamma Teacher's organization has also meant much to me thru the years.

Our three children have given us 7 wonderful grandchildren, among them are twin girls age 9, a grandson 8, grandson 13, a University of Tennessee soccer scholarship player, 19, a UT-Austin Music Major age 21, and one married grand daughter age 24 who graduated from University of Southwest Texas (San Marcos).

Cliff lives with us in Dallas and is employed by Production Riggings, Inc. as a technician. Lance and Becky (an Edmond teacher) just recently moved from Austin to the new Dell plant in Oklahoma City where he is in Corporate Sales. Janell is married to an Aggie attorney, Joe Luce living in Houston, where she teaches high School Spanish at 2nd Baptist Prep School and has a landscape nursery company on the side. We both love gardening!

The rest of my time is spent reading--I'm a mystery lover, but read everything I can get my hands on!

Our best to all you Ryanites and God bless us all!