MASCOT

Does the picture on the left look like a "Mustang" and was that our mascot? I don't remember but I'm allowed "senior moments". Ha! If that picture needs to be improved, let me know.

Also, what were the school colors? I can change site colors to an extent and if I need to, I will make the blog spot in school colors.

That's it for now.

Note: Anyone wanting to post a "comment" using the "Annon." button because it is easy but still wants us to know who they are, just sign at the end of the statement. Okay?

More pictures will follow later.

OLD PHOTOS

Dear friends,

Do any of the people in this picture look familiar to you? See how many you can name. The person that names the most, gets a free steak dinner. The only catch is that you have to come to Mulvane Kansas to get it. Ha! Maybe someone can guess what year this was because I'm not too sure when it was. I just remember I was taking alot of pictures around this time at Sam Houston.

If you are in touch or think you can get in touch with any of these people, please let them know to come to this website to look at their picture. Many students probably have never seen this picture of themselves. To me that's the best pictures to look at - one's that you didn't even know existed. So with that in mind, I would like to challenge anyone reading this post to look for pictures they took during their time in Sam Houston (high school and later pics are good also) and share them with the rest of the world. We need pictures you took, not ones out of the annual. Those pictures you buy every year wind up in the annual so those are not the ones we are looking for (unless you have a compelling reason to post one). There are three ways to share these photos that we hope you'll find. One is to post it yourself on the website. I will give you the password and some directions on how to do it. If you are not comfortable doing that, then you can send me an electronic copy through e'mail and I will post it. This will require that you have a scanner so you can upload the picture to your computer so you can attach it to an e-mail. Lastly, you can send me the picture and I will get it on the post. I will send the picture back to you if you want it returned. I hope we get some pictures.

I am thinking of running an ad in the local paper to see if we can get more people to come to our site. If anyone reading this has any ideas on getting the word out, please share them with us. Perhaps some of the local radio stations would be willing to mention our website for free. That might reach a few people. We need members to make this site work. The more that visit and comment, the more interesting the site will be. The future of the site depends on having a large membership. So we'll keep our fingers crossed.

Everyone have a nice day.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW???

I said I would have some discussion topics and here is the first one. Let us know who you are (optional) and a little information about yourself. We also want to know anything you know about Sam Houston Junior High teachers, students, & administrative staff. For Example what ever happened to Mr. Dial, Mr. Schroeder, Mr. Lammes, Mr. Williams, etc. I think you get the idea. Other bloggers are free to add or correct anything said.

Any questions? Use the "comment" tag below to direct questions at me.

Reminder: you can stay anonymous or let us know who you are. It's your call.

Question: have you told anyone else about this site? We need to get the word out.

Jake

WELCOME

Sam Houston friends,

Finally a place to meet and exchange stories that have gone untold (at least not to all of us) for such a long time. I will manage this blog and will gladly hear your ideas as to where to take it. Please e-mail me (also use the "comments" feature of all posts) and tell me what subject you want brought to the site. If you want, I will arrange for you to "post" to the site. The sky is the limit. We can do anything we want - short of anything illegal, immoral, or otherwise offensive, of course. I will assure you that anything fitting the aforementioned (I'm sounding alot like a lawyer. I need to stop that. Ha!) will quickly be deleted by me. I don't want anyone to be offended or hurt by anything that is said on this blog.

I will "post" once a week (if not more frequently). The way this works is that you will react to what I post by using the "comments" button. I have materials to "post" for several weeks but I may miss the mark if you don't give me your ideas. Send me an e-mail with what you want posted (trevinojval@yahoo.com). I will honor your request, if at all possible. As an example, you can comment on this first post. Tell me what you think about this whole concept and anything else you want to tell me. I have enabled comments to be posted as "annonomous" so that you can talk about things without revealing your identity if you feel that is necessary. You can also sign up with a blog name and password so that you can be identified when you comment. But don't be brief. Be wordy. The more you talk, the better.

Any questions? Comments? This is your chance to try this out. Leave a comment and get out there and recruit, recruit, recruit. Copy and paste the website above and e-mail it to anyone that qualifies to visit here. (if you need help with this, let me know). I for one want to hear what people remember about there time at Sam Houston. It might prove to be theraputic, too.

Enjoy