It’s great finding this site and I appreciate your work in putting this together.
I often think about my decade in Newton and all the wonderful memories of former students and others.  
I very much would like to get re-connected with those who blog on this site.
For a quick re-cap since I left Newton in the fall of 1979, I became HS Band Director at Pascagoula and then moved to Crystal Springs as Music Supervisor for the Copiah County Schools.  

David & Kristi Gibbon
1517 Tallowood Circle
Cottonwood Heights, Utah 84093

Occupations:
Kristi (Dr. Gibbon) is a veterinary internal medicine specialist.
I am an attorney and safety adminstrator with Rocky Mountain power in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Children: Two sons:
Gus 2.5-years-old
Avery 1-year-old

email: davegibbon@hotmail.com

For the past 4 years I’ve been living in Queen Creek, AZ (near Phoenix). Married to Margaret 18 years with 2 beautiful girls, Tori (14) and Jessi (8).
I’m a project manager with Cerner Corporation, working mostly CA and AZ the past few years.
I make it back to Newton a couple of times each year to visit my parents, brother, and sister-in-law …fortunately they also manage a couple of trips to Arizona each year as well.

It’s nice to see some familiar names on this site and bring back some great memories.

email: mliggett@cerner.com

Another one of the Burtons from Newton, I graduated in 1962 at the age of 16. I attended ECJC and then Mississippi College. I got drafted in September, 1966, one month after getting married, and was in Vietnam from March, 1967 to March, 1968.

“What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been” doesn’t adequately describe my journey, but it comes closer than any other song, to make the story short. If anyone is interested in more details, email me at burton@ptsi.net, I am now in Guymon, Oklahoma. I am a licensed family therapist in private practice.

We have lost so many of our 1962 classmates. I would love to have contact information for any of them, in particular Andy Brown and Buddy Lindsey.

Peace, vote Democrat and get us out of this mess “W” has got us in to.

Ken Burton

Hi this is Selina (Bigford) Boothe. I live in Murfreesboro, TN now and work as a machine operator at General Mills. I’m a divorced mother of one daughter and a son. And I have one grandson who keeps me very busy.

e-mail is sboothe376@comcast.net I also have a myspace with more pictures.

I’m Lisa Willis Lockett, class of 1986. I married John Lockett, class of 1988, in 1991 after graduating from USM with a BSBA. John has been in the U.S. Air Force since 1991, so we began our married life in Spangdahlem, Germany. We have had some amazing experiences thanks to John’s service in the military. We are currently stationed at Hickam AFB, Oahu. John is a Major, Chief of Airspace and Air Traffic Integration.

Through the years, I’ve been blessed with opportunities to be home with our daughters, Eden-15 and Jessica-12, as they’ve grown (my favorite occupation). Time does fly! We are thoroughly enjoying our years of travel, but we also long for roots as we experienced in our youth. We will likely settle someplace in the southeast within the next several years, because we know for sure, there’s NO PLACE LIKE THE SOUTH!

email: lockett777@yahoo.com

Hell-o everyone. I live in Lawrence and have 2 wonderful boys, or should i say 2 wonderful grown men. Alan is 21 and is in medical school majoring in Respiratory Therapy. Colby is 17 and attends Newton County Academy. He plans on being an attorney. As for me i work at our local Wal-Mart as an Inventory Control Specialist.

email: cgharvey505@aol.com

David & Kristi Gibbon
1517 Tallowood Circle
Cottonwood Heights, Utah 84093

Occupations:
Kristi (Dr. Gibbon) is a veterinary internal medicine specialist.
I am an attorney and safety administrator with Rocky Mountain power in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Children: Two sons:
Gus 2.5-years-old
Avery 1-year-old

After leaving NHS I attended East Central and The University of Alabama. After leaving Alabama I moved to Denver Colorado for approx. 1 year where I worked a little and skied a lot. I then moved to Ridgeland and starting working for SkyTel Communications in 1990. I married my wife Tammy, who is from Byram, in 1994 and we had our daughter Kady in 1997. I left SkyTel in 2007 as Director of Customer Care and pursued purchasing an existing small business. After several months of negotiations that didn’t come to fruition so I took a Director position with Comcast Cable in Pearl where I’m currently employed.

I still love sports but time has taken a toll on the mobility so I reserve my efforts to bass fishing, taking kids water skiing and tubing along with alligator hunting once a year.

Our home is between Brandon and the Reservoir where we’ve lived since getting married. Our daughter Kady attends school in the Northwest Rankin system.

Jeffery Hand

115 Napoleon Drive

Brandon, MS 39047

601.824.2148

Email: JefferyHand364@hotmail.com