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Coletta Adams
Coletta Adams McDonald, a native Houstonian, became a Kashmere Rams Cheerleader over fifty years ago under the direction of Ms. L. Bailey. Coletta was already a member of the drill team when she decided that she wanted to become a cheerleader. After watching the cheerleaders, she knew that was where she wanted to be. Full
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Andre’ Walker
Andre’ Walker was born and raised in the Trinity Gardens area of Houston Texas. He is a 1991 graduate of Kashmere Senior High School. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Texas Southern University. He also received his Master’s in Education from Prairie A&M University, where he is presently pursuing his doctoral
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Cynthia McGowen-Jones
Cynthia McGowen-Jones is a native Houstonian born and raise in the Kashmere Gardens’ area to the parents of Councilman Ernest B. McGowen, Sr. and Jewell McGowen. Cynthia attended the Houston Independent School District’s public schools graduating from Kashmere Senior High School. She was ranked in the top ten percent of her class and a National
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Coach Junius Simon
Mr. Junius Simon, a native of Loreauville, Louisiana grew up in Lake Charles where he was a standout 3 sport student –athlete and a 1958 graduate of Washington High School. After receiving many accolades including All District and All State he accepted a football scholarship to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Major Abram “Coach Abe”
Major Abram, who is affectionately called “Coach Abe” by his former students and friends, was born to loving Christian parents, Major, Sr. and Irene Lester Abram on October 30, 1932, in Washington, Texas. He is the youngest of three siblings; sister Gladys Abram Yancy and brother Willie Abram (deceased). His parents moved the family
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Thomas Hendricks
Thomas E. Hendricks came to Houston in the early 1960s to coach football and track at Kashmere High School. He graduated from Northwestern High School in 1957 in Detroit, where he played football and track. Tom earned a degree in education from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he also played football. He coached Henry Carr, 1964 Olympic
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Henry L. Stevenson
Coach Henry L. Stevenson lettered in baseball at Texas Southern University, before coming to Kashmere as baseball and basketball coach. He never coached a losing baseball season during his career at Kashmere. Retired as baseball coach in 1970 to move into an administrated position. His proudest moments were winning the 1965 state baseball title, as
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Ozell Harris
Ozell Harris was a 1949 standout basketball player at Lincoln High, in Coldspring Texas. She earned an athletic scholarship to Texas Southern University where she lettered in basketball and graduated in 1954. After graduation, she accepted a teaching assignment at the newly open Kashmere Garden Junior & Senior High School. Under her tutorship, Linda Sims
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Weldon Drew
Weldon Drew was a standout basketball player at Phillis Wheatley High School and Fisk University. He led Kashmere to Co State Championship in 1960 with Joe Lackey and Mighty Joe Young whom both ranked in the top ten players of the 60’s in the HISD. Coach Drew team won back to back state titles in 1974
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Billie Matthews
Billie Matthews: Led Southern University to a 12-0 season as a freshman quarterback and the 1948 NAIA National Championship. His career record at Southern was 37-4. Kashmere head football coach from 1957 to 1970 before accepting coaching assignment at the University of Kansas, moving on to UCLA. Afterward entering the professional ranks, and coaching with
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