S. F. Austin Class of '57

Here is a link to a document covering the history of Stephen F. Austin High School provided by Bill Hubert and a friend.

The document is an Adobe PDF file. If you don’t have the Adobe Reader installed, click here to download it. Make sure you uncheck the checkbox that tells you to install Chrome when you download the reader so that you aren’t forced to install something you don’t want. See this picture:

If you don’t know if you have the Reader installed, try the link. If you can read the file, you have the Reader.

http://hisd.schoolwires.net/cms/lib2/TX01001591/Centricity/Domain/17638/History.pdf

UPDATE: The link is now fixed.

Due to a very large number of attempted spammers joining the site and causing me to have to delete thousands of unpublished spam posts, I’m turning off the “anyone can join” feature. I will be able to add people to the registration manually but no one will be able to join without contacting me first.

Fortunately, none of these posts have shown up on the site, but it’s more of an administrative hassle.

So if you or someone you know of someone who’d like to join the site as a subscriber or contributor, please let me know at jeff@jeffphillips.net.

Thank you for your patience!

I’ve been able to clean out the “bad” users from the system and I apologize for any other spam messages you may have received.

As a reminder: please read the last post about the Diamond Jubilee in case you haven’t seen it yet. There are things going on today!

A G E N D A

Happenings at the Austin High Diamond Jubilee This Weekend

Main Events:

Friday, November 9, 2012

7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Welcome Home Reception

Knights of Columbus Hall, 402 Telephone Rd (near the intersection of Leeland & Telephone)

Tickets $10 person (Limited number of tickets for sale at door)

DJ music – BYOB event

Saturday, November 10, 2012

12:00 p.m. – Sign-in/registration booths open at all entrances of the school *

1:30 p.m. – Program in Auditorium

Welcome, Program, Brigade Salute, and songs by the Chorus under the direction of Jack Novak, and Fallen Heroes Tribute.

2:30 p.m. – Pep Rally on the Dumble Street front lawn**

Featuring the Alumni: Cheerleaders, Majorettes, Chorale/Chorus, Emeralds, Jr Misses, Band/Orchestra & Stevies (and a new Stevie will be presented courtesy of the Alumni Association)

3:30 p.m. Birthday Party in cafeteria

Classes by year will meet at this time also

Additional events on Saturday November 12, 2012

You are welcome to come and participate in the set up, or just come by to watch the activities. If you decide to take a tour of the school during this time (don”t forget to visit the Walk of Fame and see the Fallen Heroes Memorial)

6:30 a.m. – Breakfast at TelWink Grill

4318 Telephone, 77087 (just before 610 on the right hand side and just after where Winkler vees off of Telephone)

Everyone pays their own tab

8:00 a.m. ‘Til?

Set-up of campus for event

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Final rehearsal of the various pep rally groups (check with your group leaders for correct time or email at Diamond.Jubilee@rocketmail.com)

10:00 a.m. – Sign-in/Alumni Membership*

Booth opens at front gate on Dumble – maps that were complied by the school of the campus will be given out here. Also, other booths around the school entrances will open later. Please let us know if you are part of the Pep Rally or Set-Up Crew

There will also be a vintage car display in the parking lot. Directions on the campus map. Bring your car and join in the memories.

Mustang Cafe Shop will open on the front lawn selling coffee, tea, juice and snacks that will benefit the Austin Student Council

4:30 p.m. (or immediately after the Jubilee ends)

After Jubilee Celebration, Relaxing at Mandola’s Deli, 4105 Leeland, 77023 near Cullen

Easy listening music provided by some nice ROTC Alumni

Everyone pays their own tab

Notes:

*For the two days of the Jubilee and only at the event, you can become a Lifetime member of the Alumni Association for only $175.00 (price void after event and reverts back to $200.00.) You can also pay the annual dues of $25.00 a year

**Pep Rally will be on the Dumble front lawn (bring your own lawn chairs or blankets to sit on the grass)

This and That:

• Camera bugs may help us preserve the event by sharing their photos with us (give us names, when possible, of persons in your photos). Please send them to us diamond.jubilee@rocketmail.com
• Updates of the yearbook on DVD”s – we have just been informed the price we previously quoted was incorrect, and as of this writing, we have not received the new price. Contact Juan Elizondo ’06 at elizondojuan@gmail.com for more details & updates. He would also like to know what yearbook year you would like to purchase
• Parking – HISD will provide a shuttle around the neighborhood, even from the HISD site on Telephone
• The Cafeteria/lunchroom is now located in the back of the school on Lockwood Street
• Many classes are having their own reunions in conjunction with the school anniversary (some class reunions we know about ”59, ”62, ”65 – check the alumni website for more information)
• Here are some 75th Commemorative items that we will be selling:
• • Spirit Ribbons with toppers $2.00 each
  • Pennants – 8″ x 18″ Felt – $5.00 each
  • Pom-Poms/shakers
  • Yearbooks on DVD’s
  • Student Posters

By the way, Austin lost their Homecoming game in the final two minutes when Milby scored a win. BOOO!

Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has donated their time, expertise and dollars to make this event happen!

I’ve noticed a bunch of odd users attempting to post things on this site that are just plain gibberish. So, I have change the default registration role to “contributor” so that each post must be approved. This will stop these things from happening.

Hopefully, you will get an email about this post which means email notifications are working.

This is the weekend for Austin’s Homecoming game.

This is our first event that starts our 75Th Anniversary celebration.  Come be part of our school’s history.

Barnett Stadium Houston:
Austin vs Milby
Saturday October, 27, 2012  6:00pm

6800 Fairway Dr
Houston TX  77087
(close to South loop 610 and Telephone Rd)

After the game, come join the celebration at one of the most popular coffee shops in the East End.

Bohemoes
708 Telephone Rd
Houston TX  77023
(3 blocks from Austin HS)

Behemoes is known for great live music, good food, wine, beer, soft drinks and coffee.

First 50 alumni at the homecoming game will receive a free anniversary pom pom.  We will also have our spirit ribbons and our 75th Anniversary Pennants for sale.

Moses Villalpando

After our power outages over the last week or two, we’ve made sure that all things are working well on the web site and with our email as well, which had gone down for almost a week.

BUT: It’s all better now! We can get emails, you can make posts and read the site.

After a while without power and some damage to our hosting facility here in the Washington, DC area, the site is back up. There are some settings that may not work at this time, but I thought it would be better to have the site mostly up if not just 100%.

I’ll keep working on it. However, our email is still down so we will not recieve any emails sent to us.

Thank you for your patience!

Those who are interested in supporting the High School Alumni Association for SF Austin High School, Houston, Texas, take a look at the link for the original Alumni Association: http://www.austinalumni.org. There is an agreement with Kroger Grocery for donating a portion of your purchases to the High School Alumni Association. Click on the box and then proceed to follow the steps given for signing up for Kroger Share Program.

Those who have been doing this for years, please note that you need to fill out the forms to apply for the new Share Program from Kroger.