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Just published --

An Unassuming Man: The Memoir of Joe Hayes
by Leslie Monden

Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: iUniverse (April 5, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1450205062

Available from your local bookstore or Amazon.com

Joe Hayes was born on the day that President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. Only a few days later the United States would enter World War I. He has lived through six wars, the Roaring Twenties, the Dust Bowl days, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Cold War and the dawning of the nuclear age.

Forever an optimist, at the age of 93, Joe says every day is the best day of his life, even though he's lived alone since the passing of his wife twenty years ago. He wants the reader to know what it's like to live in a small, wooden house with eleven other people and no indoor plumbing. As a parent as well as a longtime coach, Joe wants to share his memories of a loving family and the strong moral values with which he was raised and that he passed on to his children and his students.

Along the way, Joe Hayes accomplished, as an outstanding athlete, a status few other athletes can claim. Joe has lived his entire life by a single philosphy: "Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." -Matthew 23:12

About the Author: A native of the Texas Panhandle, Leslie Monden is a lifetime resident of Stinnett, Texas. A longtime journalist, Leslie is also a photographer, a grant writer, and an amateur archealogist. She is a member of several historical organizations in Hutchinson County, Texas.

General Reunion Info: July 9th & 10th, 2010
July 9: 9:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m. Golf Tournament
    7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Early Bird Mixer, Fairlanes Baptist Church, Bunavista
July 10: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Registration & visiting, West Texas H.S. Cafeteria
    10:30 a.m. - Noon Meeting and Program, WTHS Cafeteria
    Noon - 5:00 p.m. Browsing the PHS Heritage Center
    1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Bus tour to PHS
    7:00 p.m. Evening Program

PHS Class of 1960 50^th Reunion: Activities Friday night & Saturday, July 9th and 10th, 2010. Reservations required. Contact: Michele Hunter Newsom

PHS Class of 1970 will have their 40 year reunion July 9th and 10th, 2010. There will be a golf tourney on Friday am, a mixer on Friday night and a dinner on Saturday night . Tours of the Heritage Center and Phillips can be taken. Also scheduled are viewings of old football games and the senior trip. For further information, contact Kathy Williams Brittain 806-857-3864, Nancy Williams Floyd 806-354-2442, Donna Phillips Nichols 806-274-7095 Kay Crockett Reagh 806-274-6728, or Stacy Alford Mitchell 806-273-5028.

PHS Class of 1975 will be celebrating their 35 reunion at Steve and Tammy Dowell's on July 10 for a cookout beginning at 7:00 p.m. Contact Mona Hendrickson Fannon (806)857-9320, Brenda Baggs Wilson (806)273-7418 or Steve or Tammy Dowell at (806)273-2686 for more information.

A 1988 class reunion and, hopefully, a 1986-1988 combined reunion, are possibly on tap in 2010.
Please contact Shelli Tracy (Nolen): shelli1970_AT_suddenlink.net

PHS Alumni Association Scholarships: With our endowment of $130,000 we give 13 one year -- $500/semester -- scholarships based primarily on need to Frank Phillips College students:
4 Ray Robbins Scholarships: two to students from West Texas High School and two to students from Borger High School
2 J. I. Kimmins Scholarships to students from Sanford-Fritch High School
1 Chesty Walker Scholarship to a girl softball player at Frank Phillips College
1 Evelyn Hubbard Scholarship to a music major at Frank Phillips College
1 Lee Johnson Scholarship
2 Ada Creel Scholarships
1 Williams Brothers Scholarship
1 Anonymous Scholarship

In order to keep a scholarship, a student must maintain a 2.0 GPA in the first semester. To date we have awarded scholarships to fifteen students. [16JUN09]

Blackhawks News

Teachers and others of interest is a new webpage listing who taught what and when. But it's incomplete and we need your help to fill in the blanks. [14MAR10]

Blackhawks' Achievements is a compendium of teacher, program & individual achievements as well as awards and honors earned by alumni. Check out PHS Achievements and let us know what you've earned! [7APR09]

Red Steagall PHS '56 Depicts Cowboy Way Of Life In Songs And Poems: http://www.livestockweekly.com/papers/97/09/25/whlsteagall.html [4MAR09]

Newsletter Current Issue: Blackhawk Spirit 2009
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