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Westhusing was born in Dallas, Texas and attended high school at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, where he was a student and starter for the basketball team, graduating in 1979. He attended West Point, where in his senior year he was selected as honor captain (the highest-ranking ethics official within the cadet corps ...
He obtained a pilot license while still in high school. He enrolled in the military cadet program at Texas A&M University, left before graduating, and later transferred to Texas College of Arts and Industries in Kingsville. While at Kingsville, he became interested in humanitarian work after visiting low-income neighborhoods in Mexico and ...
The building which now houses Gulf High school opened as Gulf Junior High School (now Gulf Middle School) in 1971; in 1977 the two schools switched buildings. Schools in Pasco County were racially integrated in the 1960s, and the first black students to attend Gulf High School were enrolled at the start of the 1966–67 school year.
Robert Earl Hames (January 22, 1920 – September 6, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist from Texas who played with the dance orchestras of Jan Garber, Orrin Tucker, and Stan Keller. In the early 1950s he was a staff guitarist for live productions at WFAA-TV , a Dallas–Fort Worth broadcaster. [ 1 ]
Joe Richard Pool (February 18, 1911 – July 14, 1968) was an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from Texas. Pool represented all of Texas from January 3, 1963, until January 3, 1967 (when such districts in multi-district states were banned by the Supreme Court) and then from the western half of Dallas County, Texas, from January 3, 1967, until July 14, 1968.
W. Kent Taylor, 65, businessman; founder and CEO of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain (b. 1955) [428] Bill Young, 74, football coach at the high school, college, and professional levels (b. 1946) [429] March 19 Andy Haman, 54, professional bodybuilder and actor (b. 1966) [430]
The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) operates George Bannerman Dealey Montessori School, an elementary school named for him in the Preston Royal area of North Dallas. [ 9 ] In 2021, the Belo Center for New Media on the UT Austin campus was renamed the G. B. Dealey Center for New Media to honor his legacy as "a legend in journalism and ...
Leader's Academy High School for Business and Academic Success, previously the High School for Business and Economic Success (HSBES), [1] was a Grade 7–12 state charter school located on the campus of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Windsor Village, Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas. The school was formerly named Gulf Shores Academy.