BELTON — Approximately 115 former band students and band directors from all across Texas and as far away as Iowa attended a band reunion on March 23 honoring beloved former
A reunion of students who took band during “the David Pennington years” will be held Saturday, March 23, at Dead Fish Grill in Belton. All band students who had the
It was a normal Friday afternoon on Nov. 22, 1963, at Rancier Junior High in Killeen, Texas. I had settled into my front row seat in Mr. Swindell’s eighth-grade science class, expecting to learn more about the life cycle of plants and photosynthesis. Whatever I had for lunch was beginning to settle. Swindell was about to begin the day’s lesson when the classroom intercom crackled with the announcement that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed in Dallas, about a three-hour’s drive north of Killeen, a small town just outside Fort Hood, where my Army officer father worked […]
It was a normal Friday afternoon on Nov. 22, 1963, at Rancier Junior High in Killeen, Texas. I had settled into my front row seat in Mr. Swindell’s eighth-grade science class, expecting to learn more about the life cycle of plants and photosynthesis. Whatever I had for lunch was beginning to settle. Swindell was about […]