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Class of 1926
3316 Browning Ct. E, Fort Worth, TX 76111-5021. 817/834-4400. Three of my family graduated from Oak Cliff/Adamson High School. My graduation
date was 1926; Kenneth Fayne Hughes, 1936; and Billie Nell Hughes Johnson, 1938. Kenneth and Billie Nell were children of my sister, Verna Hughes, with whom I lived when I attended Oak Cliff High. We are
all Bronze Level alumni association members.
Times were rough in those days. I went to school and shagged packages on a bicycle for 5 cents each for Bishop's Pharmacy at night. Business was good
and sometimes I would have six to eight packages to deliver on one trip.
My favorite teachers were Miss Tilley in chemistry and Ms. Ewing in typing, but all of my teachers were very good. I later
graduated from Texas University and Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C.
I served 52 months in WWII, received the Bronze Star and four battle stars and was discharged a major in
the USAF. I have practiced law in Fort Worth and served 42 years in the Texas Legislature as State Rep/Senator and was president of the Texas Senate. I served the longest tenure in the history of Texas.
I married Evelyn McDavid of Fort Worth and we have four children: Dan Willis, M.D., Judge Doyle Willis, Jr. and Dina and Dale Willis, all college graduates. The good Lord has been good to this
Oak Cliff graduate. Another Oak Cliff graduate, Jim Wright, former speaker of the U.S. Congress, lives in Fort Worth and we see each other quite often. Jim is a great Texan.
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Class of 1937
510 Dry Creek Cove, Round Rock, TX 78681, (512) 218-4285. After my husband of 54 years, Therrell E. Kennedy passed away in 1994, my
youngest son, Eddie, and I moved from Oak Cliff where I raised 3 children to Round Rock. I currently live near my daughter, Kathy. All three of my children, Susan Kennedy Johnson ('62), Kathy Kennedy
Collins ('66), and Eddie ('78) graduated from Adamson as did my son-in-law, David Johnson, my sister Mary Frances Carey King, and my two nephews, Ronnie and Steve King. I am the proud grandmother of 2
grandsons (Susan & David Johnson's sons) who were both UT graduates and have two great-grandchildren in Colorado (ages 5 and 3) and a brand new great grandbaby (born Dec. 2002) in Plano. I have
attended several Adamson reunions, both class and entire school, and enjoyed the 2002 Mr. Adamson tribute event. I can be contacted at my daughter's e-mail address: kcollins@del-valle.k12.tx.us .
1280 Masters Drive, Arnold, MD 21012, (410) 757-2869, aecollier@comcast.com after graduation from law school in 1952 I went to work in the Law Department of Humble Oil and Refining Company in Houston, TX. In 1959 Humble created a Tax Department and I was named an Assistant Manager of that department. In 1962 I was transferred to the New York City office of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey, now Exxon Corporation) for a temporary assignment in that company's Tax Department. That assignment became permanent in 1963 when I was named Assistant General Tax Counsel. I continued in that position until my retirement in 1982. When my transfer became permanent, we moved to Stamford, CT, where I lived until December of 2002. I have now moved to Arnold, MD and will be entering Bay Woods, an independent living continuing care retirement community in Annapolis, MD in early 2003.
I married Mary Dean Helms in Dallas, TX in 1952. We had four children, Clifford (born in 1952), Clay (Clifford's twin, died at the age of 6 weeks), Mary Ellen (born in 1960) and David (Mary
Ellen's twin). After 47 years and 5 months of marriage, I lost my wife in 1998 upon her death from gall bladder cancer.
Class of 1938
Served as a meteorologist for the U.S. Navy WAVES during World War II. Married Cecil King in 1946 who was a career officer in the USAF. In
addition to several state-side assignments, we have lived in Japan and England. While in Waco, I was the TV weather person (probably the first woman as such in Texas!).
I have two sons who also graduated from Adamson (Ronnie '65, Steve '68) a daughter and six grandchildren. We have now retired and live in McKinney, Texas. Would love to see my classmates at this year's Spring Event at the high school. Contact me through my son at kingsoftexas@comcast.net
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