Uncle Garland
Paul O'Rear -- Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7:15 AM (No Comments)Categories: Death, Grief, Memories
Tags: Alice High School, Alice Texas, Atlanta Texas, Baytown Texas, Don Howell, Everything Log, Garland O'Rear, Houston Texas, Mathis Lake, Morningside Drive Church of Christ, Murder, Robbery, Speech Class, William Adams Junior High
I grew up in the small South Texas town of Alice, the “Hub City of Texas”. In the Fall of 1976, I was attending William Adams Junior High School as a 9th grader. One of my favorite classes was Mr. Howell’s Speech class. I remember Mr. Howell as being somewhat eccentric. He envisioned his Speech class as something of an adventure in self-discovery for his students.
One of our assignments was to keep an “Everything Log”, where we would write down our “feelings, emotions, thoughts, dreams, ideas, etc.” on a daily basis. I ran back across that Everything Log recently, and started reading it. What follows is my entry for October 12, 1976. I was fourteen years old when I wrote this.
