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Class of 1985 - Join the 25 year reunion

Saturday, August 7, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Tin Hall
Street: 14800 Huffmeister (Tin Hall) Rd.
City/Town: Cypress, TX

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1985 - Brent Bates - In Memoriam
Brent passed away on July 30, 2007 at the age of 40. He is remembered for his love of family, friends and animals, reading and a passion for playing and watching sports, especially soccer and hockey.(updated 08/09)
1985 - Debbie Bomar-Britton
Debbie is married to a fireman and lives in the Klein area. She has a 12 year old son, Dillon, who is an avid baseball player. Debbie currently teachs at Westfield High School in the Spring school district. (updated 04/05)
1985 - SFC Mark Alan Brown
Mark is in the U.S. Army now. (updated 01/02)
1985 - Cheryl Parker Burnside
Cheryl is a college teacher in the business department (Advanced Business Technologies) at MTI College of Business and Technologies in Houston, Texas. She also owns her own business, U.R.N.CHERYLSWORLD COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES (repairing and building computer and installing small networks.) She has a 12 year old son, Michael, who is a quarterback and captain of the football team in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He moved there to live with his dad in May, 2005. (updated 09/06)
1985 - Dana Giles Calabrese
Dana married Ian Calabrese in 2002, and they have two daughters named Jordan (16) and Sarah (14). Dana owns her own security company and Ian is a top notch ASE mechanic certified in Toyota and Nissan (also works on Porsche, Mercedes and BMW.) Jordan attends Klein Collins HS and has been a Competitive Cheerleader since the third grade. She currently cheers/tumbles for Woodlands Elite Cheer Company. Sarah is in band at Needeville High School and is in the first string as well as participating in track and volleyball. The Calabrese family lives in Spring, Texas. (updated 09/06)
1985 - Brian Godwin
Scott and his wife, Romy, have three children. Josh is 8, Kayla is 7 and Jaclyn is 4.(updated 02/03)
1985 - Tim Harrell
Tim Harrell continues to work in the energy industry and is the divorced parent of Hayden and Holden Harrell. Tim and his boys still reside in Allen, TX north of Dallas, TX. (updated 05/10)
1985 - Yoland Higgs
Yoland considers herself extremely fortunate to have attended high school in the US in the 80's and to have been with that particular group of young people (and Ms. Greeney as her English teacher.) This experience has continued to have a long lasting and positive impact, and she feels lucky to be able to reflect back on a great time in her life, and some memorable characters! Funny how you remember that stuff with such clarity, and then can't remember where you left your car keys?
Yoland returned to Adelaide, South Australia in 1988 where she commenced with her BA at Adelaide University. She completed her post-graduate in Social Administration in 1993, and after working with juvenile offenders for the past decade, she is now completing briefings for the Minister on behalf of Children, Youth and Family Services". After swearing that she would never get married, Yoland married Alec Gow in 2000, and is the proud "Step-Momster" of 16 year old Alexandra. No bouncing bubbies, but she does have a big, loveable 3 1/2 year old Rottweiler called Rogan (does that count?), who unfortunately was named after a lamb curry.
(updated 07/05)
1985 - Karla Miller Hoskins
Karla writes that she married Jess Hoskins in 1991, her co-worker at the time. They have two daughters, Sydney who is 16 yrs old and Shelbey who is 13 yrs old (she'll be 14 in 2 mos, it's important at this age!). Sydney plays softball for her high school and hopes to play at the college level, while Shelbey is playing club volleyball and looks forward to playing for the high school next year. They moved to Folsom, California (in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada's, outside Sacramento) in 1998 and have loved it ever since. Their intentions were to move out there for two years and then move back HOME; ok, that didn't happen!

Seven years later they are still in Folsom, getting ready to send their oldest to college in two years, WOW ! Their youngest will be in high school next year and is scared too death. Kayla remembers her first day as a freshman wearing tight Jordache jeans and rainbow colored, strappy, high heeled cork shoes. Sydney reminds her that the same " COOL " Jordache jeans are now being sold at Wal-Mart. Oh well :)
(updated 05/05)
1985 - David Johnson
David and Erica Johnson live in Parker (just northeast of Dallas) with their three boys, Luke(7), Cade(5), and Sam(2). Their fourth boy is due in April 2005.
(updated 03/05)
1985 - Sheryl Kizzee
Sheryl is currently living in Florida and is married with 4 children. She completed her MBA in Healthcare Management and is a Practice Manager for a local healthcare organization.
(updated 05/05)
1985 - Shanna Kreher
Shanna is still living in a log home on 10 acres in southwest Illinois--just across the Mississippi river from St. Louis, Mo., where her husband of 19 years, Rich, works as a manager at Yale Materials Handling. She is currently employed with the U.S. Census Bureau. Their three wonderful children Steve (17), Laura (13) and Amanda (9) keep her very busy, along with volunteer work at their church, where she's in the choir, is the Sodality President and is on the parish council. She has also been the Girl Scout Leader for Laura's troop for 8 years, now! (updated 07/10)
1985 - Rhonda Kuhlman - In Memorium
After having survived cancer when she was 19, Rhonda passed away on September 6, 2009 from congestive heart failure. She left her body to the University of Texas Health Science Center and requested that her friends donate blood to the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center. (updated 05/10)
1985 - Terri Robertson Pantuso
After teaching high school English for 10 years, Terri has taken a hiatus to raise her three daughters and attend graduate school. She currently lives in San Antonio. (updated 11/04)
1985 - Jennifer Zurek Patterson
Jennifer has been a Certified Dental Assistant since 1986. She is the divorced mother of Morgan (11) and Josh (8). (updated 05/05)
1985 - Mary Cornelius Ramsower
Mary has been married to Richard Ramsower since 1990. She is a Registered Veterinary Technician, but rarely works these days, at least not at the clinic. She and Richard have two boys, 11 and 8. She has homeschooled them all their lives and plans to do so until God changes that plan. She is currently the Area Camp Coordinator for Christian Youth Theater, which both her boys are involved in.

She is also the Treasurer for a Boy Scout Troop she helped start 2 years ago. Her 11 year old is currently a Tenderfoot, but is working his way to Eagle. Her 8 year old is a Webelos I scout and Richard is the Patrol leader. They have 3 dogs, Petey, Tinker Bell and Benji.

They thoroughly enjoy being together and the vacations they take. Walt Disney World is a favorite location, although plans are in the works for a trip to the Grand Canyon next year and Mary has already mapped out a road trip through the central US.
(updated 5/10)
1985 - Michael Reiland
Michael and his wife, Christie, celebrated the birth of their first child Michael, III, on September 10, 2002. Michael and Christie own a digital printing company, Integrity Images, located near downtown Houston. (updated 05/03)
1985 - Llewellyn (Lou) Smith
Lou has lived in Dallas since graduating from IKE in 1985. Many of you know that he went to Denton to play football for the Mean Green Eagles of the University of North Texas. After graduating with a degree in Electronics Technology he came back home to Houston to start his career in electronics. After doing several odd jobs, Lou applied to become a substitute teacher in the Aldine Independent School District. He landed a permanent substitute job at Eisenhower High School in the Spring of 1994 as an Algebra teacher. It was truly a blessing and a wonderful experience!
Lou went back to Dallas in the Summer of 1994 to be with his longtime girlfriend and pursue my gift of teaching with the Dallas Independent School District. He went through their Alternative Certification Program and ended up teaching a behavioral program to kids with severe emotional problems. Lou did this for two years before he became a math teacher at Dallas Kimball for the past 11 years.
Lou has coached there also: football for eight years, basketball for one year and boys and girls swimming. He has taught courses from Math Models to Geometry and served as the Department Chairperson for six years. Currently he is a Mathematics Specialist within the district and is finishing his Masters in Educational Administration.
Lou was married in March of 1995 to the former Rosalind Alexander of Dallas. They have two daughters, Alaetra Jamielle Smith (9) and Aaliyah Jenae Smith (3). God has truly blessed them! (updated 07/05)
1985 - Paul Spiller - In Memoriam

Paul passed away on May 7, 2009.
Wake:
Monday May 11th 7:00pm-9:00PM
Cypress Fairbanks Funeral Home
9926 Jones Road
Houston Texas 77065

Funeral:
Tuesday May 12th 10am
St Cuthbert Episcopal Church
15330 Willow River Drive
Houston Texas 77095

Below is information he sent in 2005.

Paul has lived mostly in Spring Branch for like the last 13 years or more. He got burned out on school and dropped out, but in 1994 found out he had ADD. Paul learned how to study, went back to school and went from a 1.7 to a 3.2. He got his Associates Degree from NHCC in Paralegal and now works for the Clerk's office in Ct #8 Judge Jay Karahan downtown. So he hopes to see you guys on Jury duty....

Paul is single these days. He just got out of a 12 year relationship and lived with his brother (also divorcing) for a while. He has two sons, Damien who's 23 and Brian who's 15. If you remember all the problems he had with his knees in high school, well there is a reason. Two years out of school he was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome. It's a disease that affects the connecting tissues in the body. There's no cure, and left untreated, it can kill (like what happened to John Ritter.)

Paul remembers that after school was the time to party. Do you remember some of these clubs: 6400, Grundy's, Blue Planet, The Lizard Lougne,Club Oasis, the Yucatan Liquor stand, The Ocean club, Raizzens.Studio 45,Lord Jim's,The Island Club,Club Phoenix,Netwerk, Numbers,Rich's,Heaven,the Post Oak Ranch,Johnny B Daltons and the HOP (updated 07/05)
1985 - Thuy Tran Phan
Thuy is now known as Misty Tran. She says she was very shy in school and stayed more in the shadow of those who liked to shine. She stayed in Houston, received a bachelor degree is Social Work and worked with the Department of Human Services for six years where she learned to become the better person in life.

Shy now? Not likely. Misty married Minh Phan (Ike c/o 86) and they have two children, Alex who is 9 and Mercedes who is 7. Minh joined the Air Force right after high school. After four years he came back to Houston and attended UT dental school, graduating in 1996 with a degree in DDS. Together with Misty, he opened their first dental practice in 1996. Currently they own three dental practices and are building their last one.
Life has been gracious with them so they try to give their good fortune back to society by providing free dental services to children who does not meet the criteria of being the "insured". Misty and Minh did not make it to their 10th year nor their 20th year high school reunion, but will try to make it one day. Ike launched a lot of sucessful adults into our society, and Misty is glad to be able to read about some of their sucess stories. (updated 04/06)
1986 - Harold Bratovich
Harold moved to Colombia, South America where he has been in the English teaching field. He has his own language center and as academic director trains teachers and certifies them internationally. The school's web site is at http://www.estudiosexterior.com . Harold is married and has two boys, Gian Marco and Estefano Bratovich. He also works with kids in very poor areas of the country by providing them free english lesssons with the local YMCA. (updated 11/07)
1986 - Jerome Carter
Jerome graduated in 1986 and joined the U.S. Air Force. He retired from the Air Force in 2007 and now lives in Denver, CO with his wife Stephanie and two talented kids Tiana age 14 and Ty age 12.

Life after high school has been great! He played football in Europe for the Air Force '93-'94. Jerome now works for the Department of Commerce as the Western Region Equal Employment Manager for the U.S. Census Bureau. He was glad he was able to make it to the 20 year reunion where his old brothers/sisters and partners Billy Wiseman, Keith Johnson, Eugene Gaetz, Joffrey Jones, Keith Davis, Tony Hamilton, Gidget Marshall, Bridget Morris, Rene Bailey, Tonya Richmond (you too Missy Goodfellow) were all in attendance.

As the members of his class all are 40 plus years old now, it's nice to see Sweet Lou, Mike Reiland, Tim Harrell and others are still doing well. Jerome plans to move back to the Dallas or the Houston area so his son can experience football in Texas! May God continue to bless the Ike Classes of '84, '85, '86, '87, and '88. If anyone reads this and he did not mention you by name, trust him...you are in his many thoughts of those days at Ike, and he loves you all. (updated 11/08)
1986 - John A. Elolf
John is a Captain in the Air Force and is currently assigned to the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii.(updated 02/03)
1986 - Lisa Evans
Lisa was with her first husband for 14 years traveling with the US Navy as a Navy wife. Since then life has taken many turns, good and bad. She now has 4 beautiful children: Brittany - 20, Johnathon - 14, Laurel - 7, and Kailynn - 6. Her oldest daughter was a model, cheerlearder and homecoming queen. Her son has been an honor roll student since he started school and currently plays on 4 different soccer teams, including one for the state of Kansas. He is kicking varsity football his freshman year in high school and already working on scholarships. Her 7 year old takes after her brother and is reading on a 6th grade level in the 2nd grade. She is looking to be quite the athlete as well. Then there is their "baby." Time will tell, but they think she is going to take after the oldest daughter. They are living in Kansas where she has been working for Conoco Phillips Pipe Line Company for the past 5 years. She is in the process of buying a new house. And loving life!(updated 05/06)
1986 - Scott Everest
Scott writes, "I was the shy quite guy no one could remember in high school. DEVO RULES! My motto then. It was the 80's. I still like Devo. After high school I became a " club kid " Never did drugs but did do alot of bad things that hurt many people. I was living more of what I was in high school, weird and on my own terms. Oh, some of my friends put up with my crazyness in high school but in the real world it got me shot at. What a great teaching staff we had at Ike. I had to be protected one year at school.

As I began to get more wild after high school I got married in '95 to Doris. I still did not change my ways, but at the end of '96 something happened to me. I became a born again Christian. I was running from a call to ministry almost all my life. From the highway to hell to the highway to heaven in a few months after I wanted to become an actual devil worshiper. Now, I have 3 children, Tabatha 5, Christian 4, Brandon 2. I'm in the ministry. I'm still weird but I'm living my life on God's terms." (updated 02/05)
1986 - Melissa (Missy) Goodfellow Fields
Missy lives with her husband of almost
18 years in Cedar Park, Texas (just outside of Austin.) He works for Dell Computers and she is a stay at home mother. Their son is Zachary has just turned 3 years old.
(updated 03/07)
1986 - Mindy Bland Flint
Mindy lives in Cypress, Texas with her husband, Derek Flint, of 6 1/2 yrs. They have 3 kids, Civnan 17, Kirstin 14, and Max 4. She graduated from U of H and attended South Texas College of Law until deciding to stay home and be a full-time mom. Mindy has done this for 5 1/2 years and loves it. Her family is very active in their church, Community of Faith, off of Highway 290. If anyone would like to come by the Church on Sundays to say Hello they can find her teaching the 5 year olds' class.(updated 09/06)
1986 - Carol Rountree Gardner
Carol is currently working for Kellogg Brown & Root in their Control Systems Engineering section.
(updated 05/02)
1986 - Stacey Coker Henderson
Stacey attended Eisenhower in 1985, but had to move away and finish her high school years at Kennard High School. She has 4 children and has been married for 19 years. She is proud to be a Christian these days.

In her words, "I read Scott Everest's post giggled because he is one of the memories that I have from school. I remember the spazz dance in the cafeteria the morning of finals. I remember Devo Rules and that Scott wore black. I remember our quarterback was Eugene Gates. I remember him because he was color blind. I know that because we had art classes together. I used to ask him how he knew who to throw the ball to. LOL I also remember two good looking foot ball players, Danny Dulan and Brian Sydell. I remember that there was something different about those two guys. Although I could not put my finger on it at the time. Now that I look back I know that they were Christians. They were leaders. Not followers. They had a way with people.

I moved away in 1985 after Christmas break. I did not keep in touch with many friends, but the ones that I did talk to told me that Danny died in a car wreck. Sad how twenty something years later I still think about him. But that is what life is about, " change." When you leave the school know this: nothing stays the same. You will lose touch with people over the years. Make new friends, but never forget the ones that you had."
(updated 06/06)
1986 - John Macey
John resides in Richmond Hill, Georgia 4 of his 5 children (ages 9 to 19) and has been married to his beautiful wife since 1996. John says, "My children and my wife have truly been a blessing and I am very fortunate to have them." John graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Wildlife Science.
He currently works for the Department of Defense at Fort Stewart, Georgia where he is a wildlife biologist managing and researching endangered species on the military installation. Since graduating in 1986 he has had 2 other careers. He has been a deep sea diver in the Gulf of Mexico's oil fields and has also been an insurance agent. In closing John says, "Not much news here. Life has been pretty good, even though I have a few bumps and bruises. I hope all is well with everyone and that you are all living your dreams - God bless." (updated 04/2009)
1986 - David Simoneaux
Although David left ike in 1984 to go to Scarbourgh, he still loves Ike. He is married and has two girls. His wife also has two girls (he believes he is being punished for something.) David is still into cars and fast boats. He lives in Conroe, Texas.
(updated 09/04)
1987 - Cherea Hendrix Milburn
Cherea is arried with six children and living in Tennessee. She and her husband own their business in the Knoxville area. Cherea has two step children and four of her own. Her step kids attended Eisenhower, but her own children were not as lucky and attended school elsewhere. Cherea hopes all of the class of 1987 is as well and as happy as she is.
(updated 09/04)
1987 - Mike Romano
Mike is a mortgage consultant for First Houston Mortgage. He has three children who are everything he holds dear in this world.
(updated 08/04)
1987 - Pamela McNeil Young
Pamela has been married 8 years to Cliff Young who owns an insurance brokerage agency. They have one child, Noah Hampton Young, age 3. After 14 years as a hair stylist in Houston, Malibu and Jackson, MS, she is now a stay-at-home mom and an artist (oil on canvas.) Pamela lives in Ridgeland, Mississippi (just north of Jackson, MS) (updated 04/07)
1988 - Julie Gumina Barrios
Julie went to Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana on a volleyball/softball scholarship and graduated in 1993. She still lives in Louisiana with her husband, James, 9 year old girl/boy twins (Cassidy and Payton) and a son, Bailey, who is 3. Julie has taught at the local high school for 13 years. She started the volleyball program at the school 10 years ago and also coached the softball team for several years. Fortunately and unfortunately, she had to give up coaching both of the sports because her twins are very active in their own sports. They take up all of their time (and money!) Julie enjoyed coaching everyone else's children but she felt it was time to coach her own.
(updated 02/06)
1988 - Keith Carpenter
Keith is living in the Houston Heights and is still single with no children. After high school he attended the University of Houston and received a BS in chemistry. Keith has worked for several Houston chemical companies, but has been a forensic chemist at the Houston Police Crime Lab since 2002.
(updated 04/05)
1988 - David Cole
David married his high school sweetheart, Tammy Cole (Tammy Holt, also class of '88.) They live in Coppell, Texas and have a son, Holt Cole. (updated 06/08)
1988 - Paul Dimiceli (PJ)
Paul is working for Edward Jones Investments and has been with the firm since 2001. He married Melanie in 2001, and they live in Spring, Texas. They had their first child, Paul J. Dimiceli III (Jack,) on June 14, 2004.
(updated 08/04)
1988 - Erin Cain Dufour
Erin married Dwight Dufour in 1994 and is living with him and their beautiful black Lab in San Antonio, Texas. Erin has been a firefighter/paramedic since 1999. She also volunteers for the American Red Cross and CASA. She completed the 2006 San Antonio Marathon…26.2 miles…raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is looking forward to competing in their century ride around Lake Tahoe in 2008

An independent associate for Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., Erin is in the process of completing her degree in Critical Care Nursing and should finish in the fall of 2007.
The attached picture was taken at New Years (2007) on the River Walk with her husband Dwight (front row), Oscar Flores (1985 Ike alumni), Oscar’s wife, Heidi (back row) and me (front row)!
(updated 02/07)
1988 - Michael Fletcher - In Memoriam
Mike served in the U.S. Naval Reserves shortly after high school and attended college at Texas A&M in Galveston, graduating with a degree in Maritime Systems Engineering. He moved with his wife and children to The Netherlands where he worked as a project manager for Intec Engineering. Although he remained physically fit all of his life, due to an undetermined cause he suffered a major heart attack while attempting to save his son from drowning in the ocean during a family outing on the last day of summer vacation. He did manage to reach his son, and kept him above water until a surfer assisted in the rescue. Michael died on September 2, 2007. At the time of his passing he was an engineer working for INTEC Engineering-Houston. He is survived by his wife Amy Marie and their three children.
(updated 01/08)
1988 - Jimmie Glover
Jimmie is a JB Hunt truck driver who now lives in Irving, Texas. He is married to his 1st cousin, Terri, who he grew up with. They have a 2 year old boy named Chase, who joins Jimmie's 5 other kids and his wife's 2 daughters (Jimmie's 2nd cousins.) (updated 03/06)
1988 - Lisa Peikert Jost
Lisa is now living in Middletown, Virginia and is married with two children. (updated 10/04)
1988 - Paul Martinsen
Paul attended Eisenhower from 1984 - 1986 but moved to Cypress Creek High for his Junior and Senior years (87-88.) He is currently living in Houston with his wife, Melanie, and three daughters. Paul is the Director of Project Management for Foxconn/Hon Hai. Before that he worked for Hewlett Packard/Compaq for over 10 years.(updated 09/08)
1988 - Montra' Phlegm-Adams
Montra' is married to Robert and the mother of 2 children, Hannah, 6 and Tyler 5. She still lives in houston. (updated 11/07)
1988 - Nancy Rojas Stanley
After graduation Nancy married Barry Stanley in 1989. They have two boys (Brian, 17; Mark, 15) and currently reside in The Woodlands. Shortly after they married, they moved into a home in northwest Houston. In 1989 Nancy decided to go to business school and began a career in Commercial Real Estate. In 2000 they relocated to The Woodlands. Currently Nancy is working as the finance director of a real estate development firm located in The Woodlands. (updated 05/08)
1988 - Vanessa Ratliff Weaver
Vanessa is living in the Spring area with her husband of 8 years. Cliff and 3 children: Ashley (21 years), Cristian (3 1/2 years) and Ayanna (2 years). She is also a grandmother of Ameri (10 months). She enjoys spending quality time with her children and family, participating in various outdoor activities. Vanessa has been a nurse for 11 years, 7 as a Registered Nurse in the Woodlands. Presently she is attending Prairie View A& M University in pursuit of a Master's of Science in Nursing. Vanessa should complete her Master's in Dec. 2009 as a Family Nurse Practitioner.(updated 05/08)
1989 - Denise Davis
Denise is not married but does have a boyfriend. She has no children. She has two loving dogs -- a Boxer, Zema, and a Chihuahua, Sandy. Denise still lives and works on the northwest side of Houston. (updated 08/05)
1989 - Letitia Ivey
Letitia is single and still living in Houston with no children. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management from the University of Houston in 1994 and is currently an administrator at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She hopes to attend law school very soon. (updated 09/06)
1989 - Alex Keller
Alex graduated from Bellaire High School and then got a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Later he got his MA from St. Edwards's University (a liberal arts college.) He has released CDs as well as performed and done sound installations. Alex is now married and has two kids. He has lived in Chicago, Seattle and (now) Austin where he runs a recording studio. (updated 09/07)
1989 - Janie Rasco Lightcap
Janie is now married and would like to connect with her old classmates. (updated 11/04)
1989 - Wayne Park
Wayne is married with 4 wonderful boys and lives in Oklahoma. (updated 5/05)