John Woods:
CLASS OF 1956
Stephen F. Austin High SchoolClass of 1956
Houston, TX
John's Story
I was a student at SFA for 1/2 my sophomore year and all of my junior year. In 1955, my family moved to Iraq and I finished high school at the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon. At Austin, I was in Pop Watson's home room and had classes with some of the finest teachers I have ever had, notably Beatrice Harrison (English) and Mollie Jackson (History). Along with a couple of other Austin students, I worked at the Henke & ...Expand for more
Pillot on the corner of Wayside and Telephone.
I returned to the States to attend the University of Texas and then graduate school in Cairo, Egypt, Princeton, and Tehran, Iran. I have been a professor of history at the University of Chicago since 1970.
I have not been in touch with anyone from Austin since I left in 1955, though when I came back to Houston from the Middle East in 1956, I briefly dated one of my Austin classmates.
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