Michael McAfee:  

December 2008 - I mostly hung out with Chris Vouras, Tom Maurstad and Jimmy Leftwich, as well as Martha Page (WTW '81), Laurie Cochran, Jeanne Teague, Tom Barry and a bunch of Jesuit friends during high school. I was friends with David Rowe for many years before he was taken from us at such an early age. I had lots of friends over the years from Marcus, Marsh, White and Skyline. I think back fondly on all of them. I was a band geek back at Marsh Jr. High, but managed to get myself kicked out of band by high school. During high school, I attended Skyline in the mornings (for photography) and White in the afternoons during the 10th and 11th grades. I went back to White full time my senior year. I discovered sort of by accident on the last day of the first semester (trimester? ...can't remember) that I had enough credits to graduate and ended up leaving school early. I had turned 18 by then so I started bartending at the Chateaubriand restaurant (McKinney, near downtown); a job I loved. The fall of '79, I began college at UT Austin and stayed there for a few years. I again hung out with Tom Barry, Tom Maurstad, Mike Leppert, Morgan Roberts and his brother Clayton, among others, where I spent most of my time slacking and partying (I didn't find my first class until a week and a half after it started). It still breaks my heart that Morgan didn't survive those years. In 1982, after I got a little more serious about school, I attended CTC and ATU in Killeen, TX where I g...Expand for more