40th Reunion

Assorted Kinkaid Memories (some editing)

Memories shared to help jog yours:

• Homework, pep rallies, good teachers, hating St. John’s, freshman beanies. — George
• Teachers: Mrs. Schreck, Mrs. Paulette and Mr. Holder. — Richard
• Miss Fanthom’s dancing classes, G&S operettas and the smell of the gym. — Donna K.
• Lasting friends made. — Monty
• Friday night football games; teachers Reed, Cunningham, Paulette, McMurray, Miller and Windsor; coaches Hart, Chaney and Hanagriff. — Chip
• Mr. Moss, drama and my friend John Butcher. — Scott
• Meeting Susan Cooper, carpool with Adrian, Audrey and Andrea, dances at the gym, wearing Bermudas, boys’ dress code, senior lounge, duck tails, parties at Kathy Freeman’s and slumber parties at Mary Ann Hopkins’. — Sandra
• Richmond campus, theatre, field days, cheerleading, student council, girls’ athletics, moving to the new campus and Bermuda shorts. — Carolyn
• “Chess club approved.” — Mike Sabom
• Mrs. Kinkaid in her silk dresses directing rehearsals for commencement; everyone in white; sophomore and junior girls in pastel dresses carrying arches and ivy chains. — Dorothy Knox
• Richmond campus, eating outside, field day and football trips. — Kathy F.
• Third and fourth grade: sitting outside drinking small bottled grape juice with our lunches, singing about Johnny Appleseed and stilt walking on field day. Middle school: “Vote for me, your pipeline to the head man,” Mrs. Miller telling me to put back on my first-time glasses, the new girl Sandra, and wondering why I was worried to tears about schoolwork. Upper school: poise classes, Mr. Holder pointing his finger and saying, “You know, Sue, you always know why”—a fine teacher; not taking physics because I was a girl—too bad; playing and watching sports; and brilliant, gorgeous, talented new kids moving to Houston and joining our class. — Susan
• The transition from the old campus; Mr. Goddard; Mrs. Shrek—time under her desk being kicked while she taught ancient history; Mrs. Paulette’s English class; and Mr. Perkins’ biology class. — John Barksdale
• Gibson sends his thoughts: “My first year was seventh grade, where my fondest memory is undoubtedly eighth-grade girls. The following year, eighth grade, was the first at the Memorial campus, and my most vivid memory of that stimulating new environment was most certainly ninth-grade girls. Then, as some of you may remember, I vanished from sight for three years. I returned three years later for twelfth grade and, although much had changed, my everlasting memory of that year is again the ninth-grade girls.”