Pat Warren:  

Hello to all who may or may not remember me. I was one of those cowboys who spent their time in between classes by the gym. No I wasn't one of those idiots who stood and spit on the sidewalk. I worked the oilfields the summer after graduation and in between symesters of college. I decided that the money I was making was more than my dad and college wasn't for me. I married the love of my life (Valerie Wicker) in 1980 and our first son was born a year later. He is now 27 yrs. old and has been an officer in the Oklahoma City P.D. for about 6 yrs. In 1990 shortly after giving up on having any more children and throwing away all the baby stuff our second son was born. He is an Honor Society kind of kid and we couldn't be more proud. I have stuck with the oilfield and have settled into the "Safety" end of the industry. The only thing I regret about my high school years is that I missed out on a lot of dating because I was so afraid of rejection. The last day of school one of the "beautiful girls" in my click wrote in my yearbook that she wondered if I was gay or not because there were at least a half dozen girls who wanted me to ask them out. Why couldn't she have told me this the last day of my junior year!! I thought then that it would be a great summer, the only problem was that my new job had be working 80 to 100 hours a week which didn't leave much time for anything other than sleeping. I was all over the state and never knew when or where I would be the next day so dating was difficult. As I said in 1980 I was at the stables feeding our horses and met the love of my life. She batted those big brown eyes at me as I carried two 50# sacks of feed to...Expand for more