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We’re still on Facebook and Twitter, but this year we’ve added Google+ to our social media channels.
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In a partnership with the Houston Chronicle, Children at Risk evaluated 144 high schools in the Greater Houston area and for 2011 they ranked Spring Woods #1 in the category of “Best Urban, Comprehensive High Schools”. This ranking also comes with the title of “Gold Ribbon School.”

Read more on the Children at Risk website about the “Houston High School Rankings”.
 
 
To honor deceased classmates from all Spring Woods classes, the Class of 1969 is inaugurating the SWHS Scholarship Golf Classic to fund scholarship(s) for deserving Spring Woods grads of the Class of 2011. On Saturday, April 30, there will be a 1:00 pm shotgun start for golfers, followed by dinner and a silent auction for golfers and non-golfing guests.

Reservations are required.

When: Saturday, April 30, 2011

Where:
Cypress Lakes Golf Club
18700 Cypresswood Drive
Cypress, TX 77429 (map/directions)

Golfer fee: $125.00 (includes golf, range balls, cart and dinner)
Guests: $20 (dinner only)

Contact: More information, including sponsorship levels:
 
 
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Robberson, Nelson & McKenzie
Congratulations to Class of ’75 alum Tod Robberson who, along with Dallas Morning News colleagues Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
  
The prize is awarded for “distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction, in print or online or both.” The three were specifically commended “for their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city’s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.”

The prize was announced on April 12 and will be presented at a luncheon at Columbia University in New York City on May 24.
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What commences? Their lives as Spring Woods High School Alumni! We invite all new grads to join us here and on our Facebook page.

When: 7:00 p.m. Saturday, May 29, 2010 (Grads must arrive @ 6:00 p.m.)
Where: Don Coleman Community Coliseum (map & directions)
 
 
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Ken Elmgren (’72) has announced the second all-years informal gathering of Spring Woods High School alumni at Hula Hut for Thursday, May 27, starting at 7:00 p.m.

If you plan to attend, we hope that you will let us know by accepting the Facebook invitation or by sending an email to events@springwoodsalumni.org. An RSVP is not required, though, as this is an informal gathering and we’d rather you show up last-minute than to not show up at all.

For more information, contact Ken Elmgren on Facebook or email us at events@springwoodsalumni.org.

When: Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 7:00pm
Where: Hula Hut, 3825 Lake Austin Blvd, Austin, TX (map & directions)
 
 
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All are invited to register for dinner and a golf tournament on April 17 at Cypress Lakes Golf Club that classmates of the Class of 1969 have organized in order to raise scholarship funds for current Spring Woods seniors in honor of “deceased classmates from all classes.” There’s still a little time left to register, but please register ASAP:
 
 
Sorry for the late notice, but we only just learned from Jamie Carter Bollich (1970) that tomorrow, Saturday, March 27, there will be a lunch with former SWHS teachers Hazel Layne, Marilyn Stout and Kathryn Mikeska at 1:00 p.m. at Maggiano's on Post Oak in the Galleria area. Jamie is uncertain whether or not Hazel Layne will be there because of her health, but Marilyn Stout is coming for sure.
If you attend, please bring your camera and share your photos on our Facebook fan page.
For more information, contact Jamie at jamiebollich@yahoo.com.
 
Reunions in 2010 03/13/2010
 
We know of plans for reunions in 2010 for the classes of 1970 (40th), 1975 (35th),1980 (30th), 1985 (25th), 1989 (20th), and 1990 (20th). If you know of an event that is organized by and exclusively for Spring Woods alumni, please let us know by submitting details using our brief event form or by sending us an email at events@springwoodsalumni.org.
 
 
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