James Hackard:  

Life My Spouse On an end-of-Summer trip to South Padre Island (Sept 6, 1966) with John Wilbur, his van broke down in Harlingen. We didn't know anyone there, but belonged to DeMolay, a youth organization sponsored by the Masons. I know that Harlingen had a chapter and got the names of their officers from the Chamber of Commerce. I finally reached the sister of the junior councilor (the third number I called), and asked for help getting to a decent motel as we were stranded in a rather seedy part of town. She put her dad on the phone and he arranged to pick us up and insisted that we stay with them. Sandra and I have been married 40years, as of September 7, 2008. My Kids Andy was a National Merit Scholar at UT in math (go figure), got a MA in math from UTSA, and is now an editor for Steve Jackson Games in Austin. He will be 39 Christmas eve 2009. Gretchen left home at 16 to attend the Texas Academy of Math and Science on the campus of the University of North Texas. She stayed in Denton to get her BBA in Strategic Management. After graduation she married, ...Expand for more