Roy Warren:  

Although I did graduate, I missed graduation because I was in North Dakota, getting married at the exact same time as the graduation ceremony for TCHS. Afterwards I stayed in North Dakota for 15 years where I worked on farms driving all types of equipment and eventually became a truck driver. I even learned to fly so I became a pilot. While in ND I had no choice but develop good work habits because that's all those people do in North Dakota; work. Being from Texas I could not believe how different life is in the north. For instance when people of North Dakota die in the winter they cannot be buried until the spring because the ground freezes. Gas also freezes, as do tires on the cars. But as harsh as ND was, my wife and I obtained our educations in ND. As I was driving semi-trucks across the country, I put my wife through nursing school. Admittedly I was concerned about going to college because I had been out of HS for 10 years and had a wife and 4 children. But from trying to earn a living in ND I learned how to work and I knew very few could out work me. I applied the same work ethic and kept in mind something classmate Vickie Tennet had told me back in 10th grade. She said, "Roy I am not smarter than everyone else, ...Expand for more