Gerry Veazey:  

Life Ever since I moved from Houston to New Mexico in 1975, I’ve missed being by the water. I spent a lot of years there surfing, fishing and water skiing. To compensate, almost all of my vacations have been to the Caribbean or the Florida Keys. I don’t surf anymore, but I got into scuba diving. I like the US and British Virgin Islands because so many other islands are nearby. The St Martin area is the same way with British, French and Dutch islands within a short ferry ride. School I went to Spring Woods for my Jr High years. I was in a band called The Profiles. We did alot of Beatles and Beach Boys. We mostly played parties out in the Cy-Fair area where our bass player and cousin Mike Butts was from. The other members were Jimmy Massey (drummer) and Kent Hill (lead guitar). Our 15 minutes of fame was playing at the Cy-Fair 8th grade prom. My 1st girlfriend was Beth Rodgers, also from Cy-Fair, who I met at that prom. We kept in touch for many years after that. I went to Spring Woods HS for my freshman year, then transferred to Westchester HS. I continued to keep friends from Spring Woods. My girl friend for most of high school, Cheryl Owens, was from Spring Woods. Throughout Jr and high school, I surfed a lot. Charlie Barnes was my surfing buddy from Westchester HS and David Pfardresher from Memorial HS. Charles McKnight was also a good friend. My favorite HS teacher was my Humanities teacher, Ms. Witte. She was good about exposing the class to different modes of thinking. I remember her shocking the school authorites by havin...Expand for more