Carl Tompkins:  

Lets see..where to start? When I was in Biloxi I was one of the Keesler AFB kids. My Dad liked the coast and we lived there 3 times. Kindergarden through 3rd grade. then moved to Massuchusetts..then back to Biloxi 5th and 6th grade and then off again to Oklahoma and back again to Biloxi in 9th grade where I stayed through high school. I was kind of a loner I suppose. My best friend was Chris Toth. Baseball was my favorite sport. I pitched and Chris played CF. Danny Elliot was my catcher. I remember one particular game vs Notre Dame where Ferris came running out screaming to the mound to ask what in hell we were doing. I had noticed a beautiful young lady in the stands cheering for me, Lou Anne Love, and was merely asking Danny if he knew her....I did pitch two no hitters my senior year at BHS!!! But Ronnie Farris was a tool. He was such a Biloxi homer and hated the Keesler kids. I fondly remember the girls at Biloxi I lusted for but was too shy or uncool to approach like Joanie Kennedy, Vicky Zybinski (one year older but we used to climb trees in her backyard as kids), and others like Lou Anne Love whom I did approach. I wish I could have gotten to know guys like Mike McDermott, Danny Elliot (friend from 1st grade), and Hank Berumen, alot better as it turns out later on in future reunions we had alot in common. I remember singing Jingle Bell Rock with Hank which surprised him considering I had just come from getting licks from Coach Beaudron in shop class (If the Good Lord's willing and the Crick don't rise) because I got into a fight with some little punk named ?Newman who called my a Yankee and threw sawdust in the fan so it kind of tarred and feathered me. I got in three or four pretty good shots before we were separated and that kid never bothered me again. I worked out at the base after school bagging groceries at the commissary. Made enough money there in 4 hour shifts 5 days a week to pay for my gas money and my entire tuition for four years at Ole Miss. My sister Linda (BHS 74 now a Nurse Practioner in Nashville), brother Eric (BHS 79? a doctor with five kids in Anchorage), and Jeff (BHS Class 82? - an engineer/computer guy in Baltimore with new twins) all worked at the commissary throughout high school. Other fond memories. The once beautiful Biloxi beaches with piers out in the water before Camille hit in 69. Mrs Horner who taught both English and Latin to me, Linda , and Eric. Diagraming sentences. eeew. I went to Ole Miss and roomed with best friend Chris Toth (he left after one semester and went to USM). Roomed with BHS 74 Tim Menius and became best friends. We all lived in an apartment off campus after first year and studied and partied while trying to keep our living arangement with our girlfriends hidden from our suspecting parents. Graduated in 77 with Engineering degree in Geology and married my college sweetheart Marie (Blankenship) from Jackson and moved to Houston to be in the oil business with Pennzoil. Still in it now although at times I wonder why I ever did that. Got divorced in 84 and remarried in 88 after moving to Corpus Christi (Ah livin' the beach life and playing the single guy to the hilt). In Corpus met my soulmate and playmate Bond Gideon, a model, singer and actress. Bond was Jill Foster on the soap Young and The Restless, Operation Petticoat and was in several other TV series. She convinced me to buy a 33' motorhome in 87 after Pe...Expand for more