When the Lake Highlands Wildcats took the field this season, a pair of original season ticket holders viewed the game from a different perspective.
About 30 years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jensen watched classmates of their daughters, Sandy ’64 and Susan ’67, play football on the Lake Highlands field. About 20 years ago, they watched son Lynn ’75 play during his high school days.
This season, they are watching Lynn coach the Wildcats offensive line under head coach Mike Zoffuto.
Lynn can also be spotted on Tuesdays as the head coach of the seventh-grade team of Wildcats at Lake Highlands Junior High, where he also teaches honors U.S. History.
After receiving his masters in education from East Texas State University, Lynn started teaching and coaching at Garland’s O’Banion Middle School. His team won back-to-back city championships. He also was doubling as an assistant coach at South Garland High School.
When the position opened up at his alma mater, Lynn faced a tough decision: Accept a promotion at Garland or come home to Lake Highlands.
“After weighing all the decisions at hand, coming back to where I grew up and went to school just tipped the scales too heavily – it’s where I want to be,” Lynn says.
Lynn is working on his doctorate degree in sports medicine at East Texas and volunteers in community youth athletic events.
Look for his parents, who are longtime neighborhood residents, on the 50-yard line, seven rows up, next Friday night. They’ve been in the same seats since the first season tickets were sold to Wildcat games.
Reunion Update
Things are shaping up for the ’75 reunion. Tentative details, according to classmate Craig Jarrell, include a Western Night at Stamped on June 9, with a picnic and the main event June 10.
Jarrell, who is a mortgage banker still residing in the LH area, asks all ’75 grads to call voice mail at 416-5557 and leave your name, address and phone number. If you know the whereabouts of any other grads, include that information also.
The ’84 reunion will happen homecoming weekend, Sept. 30-Oct. 1. Classmates will meet at the game on Sept. 30 then party at Tolbert’s Chili Parlor at St. Paul and Bryan after the game. On Oct. 1, there will be a picnic from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The final gala will be Oct. 1, 7 p.m.-1 a.m. at the Double Tree Inn Lincoln Center, at LBJ and the Tollway. Couples are $92 and $48 for singles. Call Neil Sanders at 713-9793 for information.
There’s No Place Like Texas
Another LH grad, Lynn Hale ’68, is returning to Texas after living and working in Lexington, Ky., for 20 years. She has been with IBM all these years, and the company is bringing her close to home in Westlake.
She has two sons, Logan and Lathan Clay. Lathan attended Lake Highlands Junior High last spring during the transition. They now reside in Trophy Club.
Play Ball
Terry Moore ’71 recently threw out the ceremonial first pitch to kick-off the first season of Little League in North Dallas. Moore spent more than a year securing a Little League charter. Obtaining enough baseball fields was one of the biggest challenges, but he has 13 sites sewn up.
On hand for the ceremonies was Ray Burris, the Texas Rangers Baseball Club assistant to the vice president, LH head baseball coach Jay Higgins and several major league players.
Moore, an architect and builder in the Dallas area, definitely knows how to take a dream and build it into reality.
