Linda Hutson:  

Upon graduation, I received a scholarship to Navarro Junior College, but in 1968 I left school early to marry my husband,Ron Hutson. We have been married 42 years...and have one child, a son, named Chris...Chris married a lovely young lady from Austin...and together they have four children...two girls---one working on her Master's, and the other a freshman, who was accepted to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. My two grandsons are tall---one stands 6' at(age 14) while the other stands 5'8" at(age 13). They live in Minnesota. During our Air Force years...we lived in Alexandria, Louisiana...where, in 1971, I was a model for Gus Kaplan's at McArthur Village for the first Louisiana Sports Show. I also covered sports for our base newspaper and interviewed the "great" Ted Williams when he brought his baseball team to town...I published a poem in recent years, that I wrote about my interview with Williams; with the final line reading: "Then he grinned and signed his name real plain; on a napkin I gave him with a mustard stain." Following our four years in the Air Force, we moved to Dallas where I worked for the Dallas Times Herald and the Dallas Morning News...Then we moved to Commerce, Texas and went to East Texas State University now Texas A&M-Commerce...my husband began work on his doctorte while I got my bachlors in education. While at ET, I worked for various local newspapers in the area and was a student writer for the "East Texan". It was...Expand for more