kenneth ragar:  

CLASS OF 1968
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Hey guys, I can't believe it's been 45 years since we walked across that stage and received our Diplomas. Where did all that time go? Around the clock right? I hope that someone out there remembers me. I was a pretty shy person in school and stayed quite most of the time. I was in Mrs. Paynes homeroom until I went to summer school and got ahead, then I was in Mrs. Bergans homeroom. So I graduated in 68 instead of 69. I went by my middle name Gene until my senior year when I started going by my first name Kenneth. I thought that was pretty neat at the time but it confused a lot of people. It still does today. I was in FFA all three years and was Vice President my senior year. I was also in the Paint and Body Shop for one semester. I hung out mostly with the FFA guys (goat ropers) since we all had animals to care for and FFA was a two hour class. If you look at the FFA pictures in the year book I'm labeled as Gene not Kenneth, But my senior picture is Kenneth. After graduation I got an AA degree from Lee College in Baytown. I ...Expand for more
worked at the Brown & Root Marine yard for two years and went to three welding schools there. I also worked offshore as a welder for a short time. Then I got into plumbing and did that long enough to know that that wasn't for me. Then in 1974 I married a girl from Smiley High School and we have been married 38 years. In 1977 I went to work for Diamond Shamrock at their Greens Bayou plant as an operator and in 1979 I bid on and got a job in their quality control laboratory. I am now a Senior Lab Tech and this is my 36th year at the plant. We are no longer a part of Diamond Shamrock, we are now owned by Syngenta which is the largest agriculture chemical company in the world, and is also the first totally global agriculture company in the world. But that's enough about me, what's been happening with you guys? Has anyone heard from or seen Alex Espinoza, Johnny Ginn, Dwight Brown, Barry Maddox, Ignacio Rodriquez, Billy Roberts, Ronnie Carpenter, Jeanne Hardee, Barbara Dinkins, Karen Kerr, or Patti Kerr? If you have let me know.
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