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Dear Hereford Alumni,
I wanted to make you all aware of a couple of
newsworthy items of late. It is not often
that those of us living outside of Hereford and the
Panhandle of Texas are privy to news from our
hometown. However, whenever news breaks outside
of the the Panhandle and reaches across the state, I
get excited! First, I wanted to congratulate the
Hostile Herd in their valiant effort in the Class 4A
Area Playoffs that took place last Saturday in
Odessa, Texas. The game ended with a loss for the
Whitefaces at the hands of the El Paso Chapin
Huskies as the high-scoring affair ended at 53-50.
As a spectator, I have never witnessed such an
amazing high school football game as the one I saw
last weekend. Hats off to the
spectacular play of Casey Page, Hereford's
outstanding quarterback who accounted for most of
Hereford's 640 yards.
Secondly, let us not forget that Hereford's Lady
Whitefaces are 4A State Champions in Cross Country
for the second straight year! Coming from
one who ran cross country at West Texas State way
back in the early seventies, who threw up after
every
race, and vowed never to punish my body that way
again...I say, hats off to you, Lady Whitefaces!
And lastly, as I was at the Goodyear Tire Store in
Bedford, Texas on Thursday morning "winterizing" my
car, I spotted a copy of the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram on
the coffee table in the waiting room. There on the
front page was an article, "Radio's Old Philosopher"
and a photo of Hereford's own Clint Formby of radio
station KPAN. The subtitle of the article by the Star-
Telegram's David Casstevens read, "Station owner
has longest-running one-man show". To be honest, I
had actually planned this e-newsletter next
week to announce the launching of the alumni
association's new web site which is currently under
construction. But real news cannot
wait and with these tidbits of information, I am
writing to you with a
great deal of pride about my hometown...a week
sooner than later.
From the Editor - Lee Mays, a.k.a. Percy
Mays
(Class of 70)
| Over 51 Years & 1600 Consecutive One-Man Shows...Clint Formby Keeps Going and Going! |
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If you're like me then you grew up listening to KPAN
Radio in Hereford, Texas. So I couldn't believe it
when I ran across this rather large, front-page article
in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram this morning
featuring Hereford's own Clint Formby. It's not often
that something about or someone from Hereford
makes national
news. National news, you ask? Well, sort of. You
see, when you consider that big-city market
newspapers like the Star-Telegram or the Dallas
Morning News sometimes intersect with national
news organizations like the Associated Press and
Reuters...you've got national news.
You'll want to take a few minutes to read the article
that is linked below. Afterall, how many people can
say that they've actually met the man who has the
longest-
running one-man morning radio show in America!
(From the Editor - Lee Mays)
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| Under Construction: Alumni Association's New Web Site To Offer More Pages, New Features |
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With the success of the Hereford Alumni 2006 Multi-
Class
Reunion held last July in Grapevine, Texas, some new
and exciting changes to the alumni association's web
site are in the works. The site, which is currently
being renovated and undergoing consturction, is
growing from six to ten pages. Here are some of the
new pages that are being added to the site:
PHOTOS - Five photo galleries with
approximately 60 photos from last summer's reunion.
There's also group photos of the alumni reunion's
planning committee as they met during 2005 and
2006.
MEMORIALS - A separate page for deceased
classmates for the "I Will Remember You" memorials.
Listen online to the beautiful rendition of
Hereford High's Alma Mater performed by The
McCampbells of Dallas. This group of talented young
people performed at the Hereford Alumni 2006 Multi-
Class Reunion held last summer in Grapevine.
COMMENTS - We've selected some of the
many comments and responses submitted to our web-
based email from your friends, classmates, and
schoolmates on this page.
NEWSLETTERS - This page will have all of
the newsletters sent out from the association's
beginning to the most recent.
HERD STUFF - Golf shirts, baseball caps, the
2006 Memory Book, the Photo CD & DVD, and the
NEW mug can be seen on this page. The site will
soon offer credit card payments though a secure e-
commerce set up. In other words, payments can be
made directly online via a shopping cart.
SPONSORS - Not a new page but new
sponsors will be able advertise on the alumni web site
while showing their support for the association and
it's efforts by purchasing ad space that will run for a
period of 12 months.
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| After Months Of Delays And Cost Overruns, The Reunion's Memory Book Is Finally Complete! |
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Okay, if you attended the Hereford Alumni 2006 Multi-
Class Reunion in Grapevine and/or ordered the
reunion's Memory Book and have wondered, "when is
that thing gonna be finished"? Well, wonder no
longer. Yes, we 'bit off more than we could chew'
but the chewing is done and it was well worth it!
Since last summer's all-school reunion in
Grapevine, Texas was the first one in the history of
Hereford's alumni community on such a grand scale,
some of the committee's responsibilities and the
degree of difficulty in pulling them off were greatly
underestimated. The 120-page Memory Book, which
consists of reunion photos and alumni biographies, is
finally complete.
If you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and
have a Memory Book on order, you can expect your
copy to be hand delivered to you in the next
few days. Since the book weighs almost 2 pounds, it
is cheaper to hand deliver wherever possible. If you
live outside the DFW area then give
it a week or so. Receiving your Memory Book at this
time of the year makes a wonderful Christmas
present!
Wanted to attend the all-school reunion in Grapevine
last summer but just couldn't make it? Then order
the reunion photo CD, the reunion DVD slide show,
and/or alumni reunion Memory Book by calling Lee at
1-817-267-2608.
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| Alumni Reunion Attendees Offers Insight On When And Where Of Next All-School Reunion |
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Shortly after the Hereford Alumni 2006 Multi-Class
Reunion was held in Grapevine, Texas on July 14-15,
2006, a post-event survey was sent out to all who
attended. Reunion attendees were asked about all
aspects of the reunion which included the quality of
food,
the wait-staff service, the entertainment, etc. And
because of the reunion's tremendous success, a
looming question on
almost everyone's mind was when and
where might the next all-school
event take place.
The results of that survey will be revealed in our next
alumni newsletter but in the meantime, tell us what
you think if you were not able to attend the
Grapevine event. Email your response to
info@herefordalumni.com.
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Hats Off to Casey Page & the Hostile Herd in Area Playoff Battle |
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It was a Texas high school football playoff game but
it seemed more like a college BCS bowl game. No, it
didn't seem like a high school playoff game nor
a BCS
bowl game but resembled an all-out war.
Yes, a war is the best way to
describe the game that saw 10 lead changes in the
Class 4A Division II playoffs at
Ratliff Field in Odessa, Texas against the Huskies of
El Paso Chapin and your Hereford Whitefaces on
Saturday, November 25, 2006. The scoring between
the two teams went back and forth for three
quarters and well into the final quarter. Finally, the
game was on the line with seconds to play in the
fourth quarter as the
Herd marched down to Chapin's 4 yard line when to
clock ran out. The final score: Chapin 53, Hereford
50.
Hereford's senior quarterback, Casey Page, put up
some unbelievable stats in that he rushed for 308
yards and score four touchdowns. Along with those
incredible number of rushing yards, Casey passed for
322 yards and three touchdowns. Casey's favorite
receiver was senior wide receiver, Colby Marsh, who
scored two touchdown passes of 10 and 32 yards.
On Page's outstanding performance, Hereford's head
coach, Don DeLozier, was quoted by the Amarillo
Globe News as saying, "that was an unbelievable
performance from an unbelievable kid. He has
prepared himself so well for so long to play this way.
You can't say enough about the effort he puts in
during the course of the week to get ready."
Many Whiteface football fans have been
fortunate to see another outstanding Hereford alum
reach the spotlight in the ranks of collegiate
quarterbacks. That
athlete was none other than Cody Hodges (Class
of 2000). Cody
played for the Red Raiders of Texas Tech last year
(2005) and, during his senior year, was the talk of
the town
and the nation. It's going to be exciting to watch
and see how far Hereford's newest rising star, Casey
Page, will go as he enters college. We're all looking
forward to great things in the future.
Read about Casey Page....
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