GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
STUDENTS: Clyde Everett Blackwell ’62 (04/28/2023); Robert Eugene “Bobby” Bonneau ‘57 (06/23/2023); Mike Campbell ’80 (06/26/2023); Joseph Underwood Munson ‘56 (07/02/2023); Melody “Summer” McGehee Clark ’97 (07/08/2023); Charles Patrick “Pat” Howard ’69 (07/10/2023); Joyce Washington Dahniya ’75 (07/10/2023); Linda Guthrie Mutina ’63 (07/16/2023); David Richardson ’78 (07/20/2023)
MARSHALL STUDENTS: Alice Scott Jonas (06/26/2023)
REUNIONS
Class of 1962 – Classmates to meet at Smithharts from 12-4 on Sept 29, the day before the Old Timers Reunion. Contact Charles Woodside clwoodside@sbcglobal.net.
Class of 1970 – Get together at El Patio at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept 30, after Old Timers Reunion. Contact Danna Kay Wilson at library_quilter@hotmail.com.
Class of 1980 – Saturday, Oct. 21 at Dirty South in Angleton
Class of 1983 -40th anniversary reunion Saturday, Sept. 23 at American Legion Hall.See class Facebook page or contact Tina Hensley Dean at sillytinad@hotmail.com.
Class of 1984 – Contact Melinda Emfinger Partlow.
OLD TIMERS – Annual luncheon for those graduating 50 years or more on Saturday, Sept. 30 at Angleton Junior High. Class of 1973 will be welcomed this year. Catering by Filipp’s Cafe.
OLD TIMERS REUNION
Former students from the 1940s to 1973 are invited to the Old Timer Reunion, sponsored annually by the Alumni Association. It will be held from 10-2 on Saturday, September 30, at Angleton Junior High and those attending can visit the History Center from 1-5. Class reps will be sending out registration forms, which can also be paid online on the Angleton Alumni Association website.
There will be free class group photos and Filipp Cafe’s famous chicken-fried steak/chicken for lunch. Alumni volunteers will serve lunch so no one will have to stand in line.
A special addition is a silent auction of items contributed by alumni including handmade crafts, plants, food and unique baskets. Yes, William Dojahn is donating another plant and Sue Neill is baking her famous cookies and Glen Woosley will do his famous briskets. Donna Lewis ’68 is in charge of the auction and is asking any alumni with items to donate to contact her at dglewis50@hotmail.com.
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI, EDUCATORS
2023-2024 inductees for the Angleton ISD Distinguished Alumni are James Ray Gayle III ’56, Landis Maddox ’91, John Morgan ’67 and Joseph Roberson, ’57 of Marshall.
Inductees for the Distinguished Educator Hall of Fame are William Dojahn, Georgia Powell, Eugenia McNeill Williams and Mary Frances Singer.
Committees of former and current teachers, alumni and community members chose recipients from nominations received by AISD and the Alumni Association. All eight recipients will be honored at a community reception at The Oaks at Oak Plantation in Rosharon from 10-12 on Saturday, September 23.
After serving in the Navy and earning a law degree from UT, J. Ray Gayle spent 36 years in law, including 24 years as a District Judge. Gayle, who passed away in 2002, was known for his support of Boy Scouts and patriotic events and Longhorn and Wildcat sports.
West Point graduate Col. Landis Maddox ’91 has been deployed six times.Today he commands the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support in Pennsylvania where he is in charge of 12,000 soldiers.
John Morgan was a coach and teacher at AHS for 37 years. For the past 15, he has been president of the Angleton Alumni Association. A leader in refurbishing the Memorial Garden, he oversees it today. He was named a Distinguished Educator in 2022-23.
Joseph Roberson joined the Air Force after graduation from Tuskegee Institute and had an impressive career as a pilot, retiring as a Lieutenent Colonel. He now lives in California.
William Dojahn, who came to AHS in 1960, was known for getting his students through the highest levels of mathematics. He was nominated by a student who he inspired to become a math teacher.
Georgia Powell, the first AISD school nurse in 1966, was such a colorful figure people still talk about antics such as her hitching a ride on a motorcycle to reach an overturned band bus. The trailblazer was still volunteering until she passed away in 2018.
Two of her former fifth grade students nominated Eugenia McNeill Williams, who spent 32 years teaching in Angleton and retired in 1989. Both recalled her creative lessons.
Teaching was Mary Frances Singer’s passion and she taught elementary for 33 years, mainly Title I at Westside and Frontier. Often described as “spunky and sassy” she loved sports and family. She passed away in 2019.
MEMBERSHIP
New lifetime Alumni Association member is Tina Hensley Dean ’83.
HISTORY CENTER
Donna Spoor Lewis ’68 brought in 1961, 1964 and 1965 programs from UIL state track meets that included AHS competitors Butch Walden, Kenneth Brashear and Ricky Scott. She also donated programs from 1958-59 football playoffs and a 1993 Westside yearbook.
Sue Neill donated the book “Fourth and Long. The Kent Waldrep Story”
John Morgan ‘67 brought in a baseball playoff program from 1995, a 1965 football program and four elementary readers from Northside, including two Dot and Jim books.
Former girls basketball coach Janie Fitzgerald and former players Renea Andrews Simons ’70 and Juanita Winn ‘72 visited July 24 and Janie, who coached from 1962 to 1975, brought photos and clippings including many playoff teams and her state champion team of 1973.
Visit the History Center at 1800 N. Downing on Wednesday afternoons and during special events. Donations may also be mailed to the Alumni Association, PO Box 122, Angleton 77516.
HISTORICAL NOTES FOR JULY
July, 1906 – Delaney’s Pharmacy fills first prescription.
July, 1909 – Hurricane destroys most of town including new 2-story brick school
July, 1923 – Klan barbecue postponed due to rains and impassable conditions of roads
July, 1945 – Bryan Munson ‘43 lost at sea when U.S.S. Indianapolis torpedoed by Japanese submarine. He was 1 of 39 Marines that had guarded atomic bomb ship had recently delivered.
July, 1948 – Election held for Rosharon, China Grove, Bonney and Sandy Point schools to consolidate with Angleton ISD
July, 1955 – Polio shots given to Angleton school children
July, 1965 – Fishermen complain about surfers at beach
July, 1972 – 29-year-old Virgil Tiemann hired as new AHS principal
July, 1977 – Don Lilly resigns and James Shumake named new junior high principal
July, 1980 – Average teacher pay is $13,966 which is 17% over state minimum
July, 1998 – Angleton will be 9th smallest 5A school in Texas in 1999
July, 2003 – School budget $700,000 less because of loss of revenue
July, 2020 – Alumni Association purchases Wildcat Creed banners for each campus
July, 2023 – Kaley Arbogast and Madilyn Mass win awards in culinary arts at national FCCLA convention in Denver. Regina Crowley, Wyatt McHam and Emily Munson earn FFA Lone Star degrees.
CALENDAR
July 26, 27 – Back to School Registration
August 16 – Classes begin for new school year
August 20 – Alumni Board Meeting
Sept. 17 – Alumni Board Meeting
Sept. 22 – Homecoming football game vs. Magnolia Bulldogs
Sept 23 – Distinguished Alumni, Educator Reception
Sept. 30 – Old Timers Reunion
Oct 19 – 20 – AISD Fall Break
ANGLETON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD
Officers are John Morgan ‘67, president; Tracy Holt Delesandri ‘80, vice-president; Linda Winder, secretary; Linda Roesler Fox ’67, corresponding secretary; Julie Irby Kolojaco ‘67 treasurer and Sammy Alsobrook ’69, past president. Board members are Bette Sides Sweeny ’59, Sue Neill, faculty; Frances Coleman Leist ’66, Katie Jacobson Clegg ’69, Bridgett Bradford Norris ’75, Isabelle Salazar ’76, Martha Boone Samford ’67, Sam Chamberlain ’66, Larry DuBose ’67, Glen “Deacon” Woosley ’76, Shelley Fox Rouse ’77, Mary Ann Douglas Murphy ’60, Cecile Newton, faculty, Donna Spoor Lewis ’68. Ad hoc members Pam Hendrick ’71, Debra Morris ’72, Betty Condry McAfee ’69, Bartlett Ramsey, faculty, Kathy Cooksey ’68 Charter Member Bill Schweinle ’59.