Newsletter
UHSAA NEWSLETTER
July, 2010
HOMECOMING 2010
The 2010 Uvalde High School Homecoming celebration is going to be early this year, the second weekend in September. The homecoming parade through downtown Uvalde will be late Thursday afternoon the 9th and then the big game against the Pearsall Mavericks will be 7:30 PM on Friday the 10th.
While it is not an official UHS Alumni reunion, homecoming is always a fun time to be in Uvalde visiting friends. This year, it is so early the leaves will still be on the trees. We all need to be there to cheer the Coyotes on to victory!
STATE OF THE ASSOCIATION
This year has been one of renewal for the Uvalde High School Alumni Association. The UHSAA Board of Directors renewed its dedication to make our association more visible and provide more opportunities for you to become involved.
We continue to receive membership renewals and new life memberships. This shows continued interest, and we hope to see this support increase so that we are better positioned to help our UHS students
The By-laws have been revised and a copy mailed to each member for review. Members will vote on the by-laws at the September meeting.
Very important is the addition of a new website that will help UHS alumni keep in touch with one another. We’re confident that the improved navigation and addition of individual class pages will help achieve that goal.
We are committed to the support of Uvalde CISD schools and U.H.S.graduates.
We hope to see you at the UHSAA Annual Meeting, Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Lawrence Ray Smith, President
COMING SOON
A new revised web page is UHSAA is under construction and should be online shortly. This new web page will offer easier navigation and updating in addition to providing a section for individual graduating classes of UHS to build and maintain their own pages. Be sure to check www.uhsalumni.com often as this project progresses.
www.uhsalumni.com
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP SALE
You have been meaning to join the Uvalde High School Alumni Association as a paid member, but just haven’t gotten around to it…. Lucky you!!!!
The UHSAA Board has given ole Wiley permission to offer a sale on UHS Alumni Association memberships for a limited time. Anyone who uses the enclosed envelope to send in the special new member form below along with their check can purchase a three (3) year membership for $40, or a lifetime membership for only $80. Now remember, this is only available for a short time, your application and check must be received by November 30, 2010.
After November 30th, we are back to our regular prices of $20 for an annual membership and $100 for a lifetime membership. So don’t delay, fill out the form, write your check and get it in the mail ASAP.
UHS ALUMNI “SPECIAL OFFER” NEW MEMBER FORM
First:________________ Last:____________________ Maiden/Middle:_____________
Street:________________________ City:________________ St:___ Zip:____________
Class of:________ Home. Phone: ___-___-________ E-Mail: ____________________
______I am enclosing $40.00 per person for a (three) 3 year Membership.
______I am enclosing $80.00 per person for a Lifetime Membership.
Mail to: UHS Alumni Assn., P.O. Box 757, Uvalde, TX 78802
Offer Expires November 30, 2010
The 2010 Uvalde High School Alumni Association annual membership meeting is scheduled for Saturday, September 11, at 10:00AM at the First State Bank in Uvalde. Refreshments will be provided and your presence is valuable. The First State Bank is located at 200 East Nopal.
Among other association business, will be the review of the new By-Laws that are being voted on by the membership. Also, UHSAA scholarship and community awards winners will be announced at the annual membership meeting.
If you are a member of the Alumni Association, your attendance and participation at this meeting is greatly appreciated and needed.
Friends We Will Miss
The following are Uvalde High School ex-students, graduates and teachers who have passed away in the period since our previous newsletter was published. We know this list is not complete; if we miss someone please make us aware and we will include them in the next newsletter. When a memorial donation to the Alumni Association is made in the memory of a departed friend or loved one, that person’s name is printed on the Memorial Page of our web site ) and the donation is deposited into our permanent investment fund. Please take a moment to visit our memorial page at www.uhsalumni.com.
Band Director
John Stauss Buchanan
Teacher/Coach
Robert ‘Bob’ Mathis
1930
Maggie Heard Gibbens
1934
Eunice Hensarling Anderson
Margaret Stoner McLean
Wilma Russell
1936
Alice Estelle Wentworth Eiband
Ed Haby
Robert R. Ramsey
Vera Stallcup Taylor
1939
Governor Dolph Briscoe, Jr.
William Claude Estes
1940
Lonnie Irwin Bailey
Coralye Echols Ruth
1941
Hassel Irvin Clark
George Graves
1942
Homer W. Hale
Sumner Hunter
Earline Harrell Oliphant
1943
Leocadio Mata Torres
Joseph E. Puccini, Jr.
1946
Philip J. Stover
1947
Wayne E. Ball
Henry Charles Casal
Roberta Roberts Rountree
Celestino Uriegas
1948
John Roy Culbertson
Jacquelynn Richardson Kyle
Rose Molloy Stuessy
1950
Mary Lee Kolinek Haby
Jean Carpenter O’Dell
Susie Canales Nevarez
Beatrice Canales Ries
Carmen Torres Sanchez
James H. Wells
Ben Joe Yancy
1951
Charles Daly “Pat” Cowsert
Pat Horn Edwards
Shirley Davis Fellows
Patricia Gardner Harvey
Thomas T. Moore III
1953
Jesus Y. Garcia, Jr.
Gerald T. Langford
Jared LaGay Swint
1956
Nancy Ann Barber
Ray Arlen Peebles
Wilbert L. Welch
Elbert Benjamin Williams
1957
Charlene Gray Moore
Sam R. Stockton
1958
Herman C. “Bubba” Carlisle
Charles “Chubby” Roberts
Arturo Rodriguez
Roberto D. Silva
1959
Elida Mata Gonzales
Armando Marillo
1960
Ralph Pickens
1961
Thelmarie Meyer Holbrook
Pedro T. Zamora
1963
Robert E. Hutchison
1964
Ernesto Martinez
1965
Burke Clement, Jr.
Florence Raynice Baker Emler
1966
Jimmy Sam Green
1969
Juan ‘Johnny’ Benavides
Mary Gremmel Latimer
Rebecca Hermes Loman
1971
Richard Scott Howard
1973
Towner Leon Dismuke
1977
Rodney C. Ham
1980
Charla Ann Robinson
1981
Arthur Pierce Allen
1987
Misty D’Layne Raines
1988
Jose C. Martinez, Jr.
2000
Michael A. Connor
2006
Janey “Kate” Marmion
UHSAA 2010 Scholarship Winners
Denise Rabe has been accepted at The University of Texas at San Antonio, where she plans to work towards admission into medical school and go on to become a cardiologist. Denise was active in the UHS Student Council and in 4H, was a member of the National Honor Society, played tennis and did volunteer work with Youth Group.
Samantha Rodriguez is on her way to Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Ranked 9th in her class, Samantha is pursuing a Business degree in Economics and plans to go on to law school. She was active in Student Council and was a cheerleader for 4 years. Honor Society, FFA, and ACA DEC also played a big part of Samantha’s UHS career.
Becci Grimm was awarded the Paul Alfred “Freddy” Edwards Scholarship. A very outgoing young lady, she loves to cook, and plans to be attending a Culinary Arts school in the near future. She was a member of AVID, the National Honor society 2007-2010, UHS Band all four years, played soccer and was team Captain her senior year, and was a member of Theater Group.
Pennies Saved = Dollars to Give
There is a way you can provide money to the alumni association without costing you a cent: just be sure we always have your current email address. If the newsletter you are reading right now was delivered by the Post Office, it is because we do not have your email address, or, we may have had your address, but your email server refused to accept mail from uhsmaillist@yahoo.com .
Our mailing list has about 4,600 names on it, and of those, we have about 1050 e-mail addresses. Our guess is that of the remaining 3550 people on the list, at least 50% or about 1775 of them have email. Please, those of you who do have e-mail send your address along with your full name and year graduated to uhsmaillist@yahoo.com and don’t forget to put us in your address book so your server will accept messages from the Alumni Association.
This is very important; we have to pay postage to mail to the 3550 while the 1050 can be communicated with for free. The money saved could help provide another scholarship or two.
Calling All Classes
The UHS Alumni Association has been in operation for about seven years now, and, in that period of time, we have had two whole-school reunions and many individual class reunions. Every year several classes organize reunions and those working on getting them together soon realize what a job it is to find all their classmates who have moved away from Uvalde and they have lost touch with.
The Alumni Association has the wherewithal to be of immense help in organizing reunions in that we can gather and keep updated names and addresses of UHS exes that can be provided to the organizers when needed. We have very complete lists for some classes but, unfortunately, many of our class lists are pretty skimpy. In addition, people move or change their email addresses and forget to notify us.
In order to rectify this problem the UHSAA Membership/Mail List Committee is setting up a Class Contact program with at least one member from each class to be a volunteer liaison between their individual class and the Association. This is not intended to be a full time job, and we would expect the “Class Contact” to use other members of the class to help gather the information. If you think you might like to serve as the Class Contact for your class, please respond to the Alumni Association at uhsmaillist@yahoo.com . Around the end of August or early in September we will contact those who have volunteered to get the program up and going. Since we will be exchanging information, the Class Contacts should have email and it would be advantageous to have Microsoft Excel also.
We would like to make one thing very clear: while we are accumulating names and addresses and building mailing lists, we do not share this information with outside organizations. We have a system in place to share classmate info with other classmates that endeavors to protect the privacy of others.
We look forward to working with you this fall in building a larger and stronger alumni network.
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