Lubbock Boys Meet in Boston

     Dr. Davis L. Ford, P.H.D., who was a classmate of mine in the Lubbock High School Class of 1955 was called to Boston to deliver a paper to the graduating Civil Engineering students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  While there, he realized his wife, Gwen,  had failed to pack his necktie for the trip.  Being resourceful, he located a local WalMart and went inside to purchase a replacement clip-on tie.  He preferred these because of their cutting edge fabrics and colors.  The fact that he had been unable to master the art of tying a necktie also played into the decision.
     He was greeted at the door by a strangely familiar individual.  Soon, they realized they should know each other and began to play "who do you know".  Eventually they narrowed the field enough to realize they had been classmates in Lubbock since the first grade---it was his boyhood friend James O. Collins.  Mr. Collins had a successful business career, culminating with his selection as "Greeter of the Month" at this WalMart in June of 2007.  Dr. Ford was here to deliver a paper--"Why Poop Floats and How to Sink It" to the graduating Civil Engineering class at MIT. 

     You will find Old Lubbock Boys in every field of endeavor known to mankind and you will usually find them at the top of that field.  There are 525 stories in that class---this is just two of them.