David Berry

Zachary Pike (2006)

Sydney McKenna Pike (2009)

I remember the Volkswagen someone took to the second floor up the big ramp in the commons.

Awesome bonfires at Memorial City which I'm sure would not be allowed today..

Bottle rocket fights in the parking lot after hours

Working in the bottle sort room at Gerland's watching Kelly Weisbruch break off-brand bottles against a wall that we did not take....

Our basketball victory against Memorial High School my senior year..first time in 7 years Memorial had lost a game in district play...

Sadness: learning the Mike Bird had died.. an untimely end to a interesting guy and ever so talented artist.

Being young and in love : Laurie Brock where are you?

I made contact with Debbie Fridrich Hatt ten years ago again and have now gotten in contact with others I had never forgot like Minnette Eschette Feather and even others I really did not even know well in High School. It's never too late!!! I and others from Spring Woods are having a ball on Facebook!!!

CELL 904-887-8123

probably a few

I joined the Navy in 1972 after screwing around for a year at the U of Houston. I guess I really wasn't ready to decide what I wanted to do, and I figured the Navy would be a good place to figure it out. My first duty Station was out in Guam for two years, then I got picked up for an officer program where they shipped me to Ole Miss (University of Mississippi, Oxford, Ms.) where I degreed in Electrical Engineering. I was commissioned an Ensign in the US Navy in 1979. 15 years later, and after multiple duty stations including three deployments to a cold war Mediterranean Sea onboard aircraft carriers USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and USS Coral Sea (CV-43), duty in Monterrey and Pt Mugu, Ca., Fallon, Nevada, Jacksonville and Pensacola, Florida, Lakehurst, NJ, Memphis, Tn. and Norfolk Virginia, I retired as a Lieutenant Commander.

Now retired my last job was Sierra Management Inc.) on contract to store and ship Navy and Marine Corps Aircraft parts. upgrades.http://www.springwoods1971.com/class_classmates.cfm

University Of Mississippi, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering

Although I left high school fairly liberal minded, I have evolved in my beliefs. I still feel like I am personally very liberal in my views of lifestyles and social mores but I do not think that should extend to government. I saw government waste first hand for 23 years in the NAVY and feel the federal government and state governments should be operated VERY frugally and conservatively, and in strict accordance with the U.S. Constitution.
I am all at the same time intelligent, intense, grumpy, grouchy, funny, happy, loyal to a fault, obstinate, conservative, libertarian. I am also a handy guy. If I can get the parts and the tools, I can fix just about anything, and with epoxy and a finishing nail, about everything that breaks around a house.
I got extremely lucky after miscues in the marriage field by meeting and winning my lovely wife Kassie.

To quote Vanessa Williams, I "saved the best for last"

I helped create my daughter Jennifer and my son John, two of the best people in the world!!!

Went to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in 1984 before it got banned (leans too much now for climbers to the top)

Went to the top of the Great Pyrimid in Cairo,
had a beer in front of the Great Sphinx.

Toured all the historical sites in Jerusalem, Bethleham and Galilee

Stood in front of the 9 foot tall Michaelangelo Statue of "DAVID" in Florence, Italy. Micheangelo didn't do David any favors in the package department.

I am a hunter, fisherman, and woodworker. A handyman extraordinaire (jack of all trades master of none) while also pursuing hobbies in Gunsmithing, Ammunition reloading and recreational shooting. I am also a avid gun Collector.

Avid Reader..anything historical, and also action thriller reader of anything Clive Cussler writes.

All our animals are rescue animals


We now have ORBIT the dachshund (ORBIE) and Kikki the CAT.

I was fortunate to grow up in Sonoma, California, one of the most wondrous places ever to grow up, and we even realized it back then in 1965. (just went back to visit September 2012!!) Then, back to Texas, state of my birth. I am intensely proud of my Texas birthright, and also very,very proud of my Tennessee roots that included a GGG Grandfather, Sam Berry, who fought (and died) defending his state serving with the 55th Tennessee Infantry for the Confederacy.

I had a great time in high school, and got to play basketball for the best high school in Houston, Spring Woods High. Looking back, I would have and should have got involved in other things that have always interested me, music (I played the Baritone in Elementary School), furniture design, and metalwork (welding and casting).
I held our art, music and drama students in very high regard in high school even while hanging around with the jocks.