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Saturday October 12, 2024
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As we decided at the 2011 50th reunion, the next reunion will be five years from the 50, putting the date in the fall of 2016.  

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11/2/2011
New Slideshow
I have replaced the original slide show (which had a 100 photo limitation) with one that is linked to photobucket.com. That eliminated the limitation. Now all 280 photos are available righ . . .  Continued

10/26/2011
Correction
Apparently there is a limit on the number of photos that can be placed in the slide show above. It only took (and shows) 100 of the 164 photos. I'll try converting them into an .AVI or .WM . . .  Continued

10/26/2011
Reunion Photos
I now have all of the 164 photos that I have received of our 50th class reunion posted on this web site. I did this by posting them on photobucket.com and then linking to that web site. Th . . .  Continued

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  Remembering Carla Karey

  The Week Carla Came In August of 1961 a

Fri 9/22/2017 4:18 PM

  Message Linda Smith Burgess

  Death of Irving Ray Berry Died: April

Sun 4/20/2014 8:22 PM

  Message James Sharp

  I am letting everyone know that I surviv

Thu 1/9/2014 3:47 PM

  Message Troy Tucker

  Death of Danny Stanbery Died Thursday, S

Tue 9/17/2013 11:54 AM

  Diana Kay Mitchell Sharon Loden Daniel

  Sad news, another classmate (& my cousin

Tue 9/17/2013 9:51 AM

  Death of Joe Yates Karen Yates

  Joe passed June 25, 2013 after a 9 year

Sat 8/24/2013 1:11 PM

  Death of Kenny Austin Don

  Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel obituary colu

Wed 7/24/2013 4:12 PM

  Services for Marcia Richards Kenny Austin

  I was proud to see so many classmates at

Mon 5/20/2013 11:47 PM

  Carolyn Allen Porter Kenny Austin

  Carolyn passed away on 12-May 2013 at he

Mon 5/20/2013 11:33 PM

  Message Kenny Austin

  Death of Marcia Richards I want to than

Fri 5/10/2013 1:14 PM

  Death of Oscar Hightower Kenny Austin

  I simply forgot to put out the word that

Mon 3/11/2013 11:30 PM

  Death of John David Sims Kenny Austin

  John passed away Tuesday 8-Jan-2013. He

Thu 1/10/2013 4:58 PM

  Message Kenny Austin

  Just wanted to share the sad news of the

Wed 10/31/2012 9:48 PM

  Searching for Robert Smith Karen Rogers Powell

  I'm not sure how your web site works but

Mon 7/23/2012 12:51 AM

  Message Karen Rogers Powell

  Hey Class of '61...I'm sorry to jump int

Mon 7/23/2012 12:47 AM

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Kenny Austin


After graduation I went to SFA to study forestry. Almost finished it except a little debacle called Vietnam got in the way. When I got my draft notice, I knew I didn’t want to go into the Army and become cannon fodder so I raced over to the Air Force recruiter. There was a waiting line 9 miles long but with the amount of college I had he put me at the front of the line. I enlisted on 18-Jan-1966. When it came time to re-up, I decided to make the Air Force a career but knew I needed to finish college. The AF sent me back to SFA and I finished my forestry degree and was assigned to Officer Training School. Upon completion of that I was assigned to a missile combat crew as a Missile Combat Crew Commander – you know, the guy with his finger on the little red button ready to nukem till they glowed!! I actually had the honor of launching a long range LGM30F Minuteman II ICBM on 1-Feb-77 from Vandenberg AFB, CA (warhead removed of course!). While on missile combat crew, I finished my Master's degree from the University of Northern Colorado. After four years on a missile combat crew, I transitioned over to the management engineering career field (the Air Force’s efficiency experts) for the next 8 years. I retired in 1987 after 22 years of service.

I signed on with Temple Inland as an operations research analyst assigned to their Applied Research Center in Diboll. Retired from there (early) after 10 years.

Have been enjoying retirement ever since. I drug Sarah Jane, my bride of 46 years all over the U.S. My kids are scattered to the wind so I don’t get to see my grandkids that often. We have Johnny (1993), Elizabeth (1993), Blake (1989), and Josie (2000). Sarah Jane and I travel a lot and are enjoying retirement.


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