From Kay (Ikerd) McKean, ’47, Salt Lake City, UT

 --writing to Jim Purvis, who handles mail orders for alumni merchandise--Although it now more than a year since you did get to me the TCHHS disk of the history of our beautiful high school, I need to say “thank you” for your attention to my letter. I again watched--twice--the informative program--some things I had known, some not. I was privileged to have worked for Virginia Childers Moore in the office from my sophomore through senior years, also as secretary to Vice-Principal (Clarence) Clayton my senior year. I always have tears in my eyes remembering the wonderful, rewarding years at Howe 1943-1947. My training in Secretarial-Office-

Bookkeeping classes served me well in my years of working until I retired in January 2003. Yes, I know you and Ed (Ikerd) were in the Class of 1945, and my sister Marvel grad-uated in the Class of 1944. Our parents, Ken and Virginia Ikerd, chaperoned many Howe dances, and Dad was a Presi-dent of the Men‟s 400 Club, as it was called then. As I write this I‟m listening to the Utah Jazz play the Los Angeles Lak-ers in the first game of Round 2 of the NBA playoffs. My love of basketball began at Howe way back then.