Central High School Bobcats Class of 1974

1974 Alumni Lynn Brooks...Honored at CHS 2009 Homecoming Game

2009-12-19T15:57:00.000-08:00

Bobcat Announcer, Sonny Cleere:

"In honor of the Central High School Homecoming 2009…The Central High School Graduating Class of 1974 is attending tonight’s game as a part of their 35 Year Class Reunion Event. The 1973/74 Bobcat Football Team was District 5-4A Co-Champions with a record of 9 and 1. Many of the players from that championship team are in the stands this evening.

Tonight we recognize the undying tradition of Bobcat Spirit with a special guest from the CHS Class of 1974.

Bobcat alumni Lynn Brooks will represent the Central Class of 1974 on the field this evening. He will be joining the current 2009 Bobcat Football Captains for the coin-toss. Lynn is a life-long Bobcat supporter and long-time Bobcat Football season ticket holder.

Lynn was a 2 year letterman and head varsity manager of the 1973/74 Bobcat District 5-4a Football Champions.

Thank you Lynn…for your contribution and support of the Central High Bobcats Tradition".

Gaylynn Robinson Comes Home To San Angelo...

2009-11-12T19:35:00.000-08:00

Hey Fellow 1974 CHS Graduates,

I hope you will join me in San Angelo at the Silo Restaraunt. I am booked at the Silo House Restaurant for 2 dates. Dave Alexander is holding some slots for my friends and fellow classmates.

Please let me know if you can make it.

The dates are: Wed. Nov. 18th and Wed. Dec. 16th 6:00 - 8:00PM

Please join me. Reservations taken on 1st Saturday and after that via e-mail to david.alexander@angelo.edu

Wednesday November 18th - Songwriters in the Round at the Silo House Restaurant. A special evening featuring music by T. Gosney and Gaylynn Robinson in the Silo House Restaurant at the Chicken Farm. Music and a meal from $12 per person (byob). Meal at 6:00-Music 6:30-8. Reservations taken on 1st Saturday and after that via e-mail to david.alexander@angelo.edu

Silo House Restaurant – The most unique dining in San Angelo - Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings by reservation and a new menu every week. Call 658-3333 for info. Also lunch on 1st Saturday’s. Email silohouse@zipnet.us to get a weekly menu.

I am looking forward to seeing you there.

Love, Gaylynn

PS.. please pass this on to others that might be interested.

To the Central High Class of 1974:

2009-10-07T19:24:00.001-07:00

As I rewind the years in my mind, the San Angelo I remember comes into focus. Smells and sounds turn into places and locations. Places like the YMCA Baseball Fields, Grassy Meadows, Wink Hill, Bobcat Stadium, Brown’s Pool, Nathan’s Jewelers, Ricardo’s Restaurant, Charcoal House, and of course the Twin Vue and Angelo Twin Drive In Theatres.

Next, I see “The Drag”. We pool our money together for gas and then drive west on Sherwood Way until we turn our cars around in the West Side National Bank parking lot. We then drive east and perform the same maneuver at Bob Baker Camera. Then west again, then east again, etc., etc. Somehow, days seemed to have been longer in 1974.

Honestly, I don’t just see locations, I see people as well. In fact…“I see you people”. The people I shared some of the best years of my life with. A few years ago one of our classmates sent an essay for me to read: Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen) by Mary Schmich. There is a short paragraph in that article that expresses much more eloquently the idea I’m struggling to convey:

“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.”

Familiar sites around town aren’t as recognizable anymore. Bank of the West is now Bank of America, Nathan’s Jewelers is a second hand store, and the YMCA Baseball Fields have gone to that sports complex in the sky. If you think about it, we are not unlike these places ourselves.

However, if we look closely, we might just realize that in spite of all of our dramatic changes…there are many common threads in the fabric of our lives and those of our fellow 1974 classmates. This fabric is weaved together from our common life experiences.

“Life Happens”, and it most certainly has happened to all of us.

More than a generation has passed since the Central High School Class of 1974 wandered off the San Angelo Coliseum stage and into the future. I expect that the most recent 2009 graduates of Central High School will learn, as I have, that no matter the distance life carries us from where we started…it is meaningful, and sometimes necessary, to occasionally touch home plate again.

Butch Baker

From the entire Reunion Committee: "THANK YOU ALL FOR ATTENDING!"

Candis Rodgers Wells - Donna Smith Massey - Kerry Scudder - Chuck Hodapp - Larry Melton - Michele Williams Stout - Lori Barta Weaver - Donna Gass Robinson - Joe Lee - Sherri Lee - Butch Baker - Kathy McWilliams Baker

2009-10-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

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CHECK THIS OUT...YOU PROBABLY SAW THESE AT THE TWIN-VUE OR ANGELO TWIN DRIVE-INS!!