William McGowen attended Phyllis Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas, as a student-athlete on the football team, graduating in 1947. He received a football scholarship to Texas College in Tyler, Texas. It was also at Tyler where he would meet the love of his life, Rosie.  William took his first job as a teacher/coach in Hugo, Oklahoma, where he resided for four (4) years. He then moved to Dennison Texas to …

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 and Carolyn Harlan won the city tennis doubles in 1966 and Inez Tates won the …