I was employed by the University of New Haven in West Haven, Conn. as a distinguished lecturer and an advisor on computer evidence and security issues.  I currently serve as a private consultant to private-sector corporations and government agencies as they deal with computer security and computer evidence issues. 

As a special agent, my work included work on organized crime cases, narcotics trafficking cases, stock frauds, oil field fraud, illegal tax shelter organizations, illegal prostitute businesses, illegal political kickbacks in the statewide county commissioner investigations, money laundering cases and the investigation of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building bombing.  I worked many undercover cases and did work with the Secret Service in protecting the President, Vice-President, and other individuals. 

Currently, I am on the board of directors of the Allegiance Credit Union in Ok. City.  I was the charter member and charter vice-president of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS).  Presently, IACIS is world wide and has over 1000 computer specialists.  I have one daughter and two grand daughters.  I have been married to Lynne Kelso for over 36 years.

Yes, friends.  I frequently crash at  Trigg and Bill's.  My parents and sister are buried there.

Spring water -- and Ada can be spelled backwards!

The day Lynn got two tickets and her parents didn't seem mad.

Barbara Harris and Lynn Ramsay -- from kindergarten on!

Marital status, job status, improved mental status, entrepreneurial endeavor.

Became a grandmother, sold 30,000+ Magshots greeting cards, obtained license to sell real estate, no longer "need" therapy!

Anticipate finishing my personal story with co-author from Minnesota

Always avoid the dreaded comma splice, and stay out of the sun.

Yes, my mother, Lorene Cope, still lives in Ada as does my brother, Bennie Cope and my half-sister, Barbara Cope Wallis.  I also have an aunt and uncle, some cousins, and some of my husband's family lives there as well.

High school football, Bob's Barbecue, the cement plant, and the lynching early in the century.

Trip to Washington, DC with the Russian Club. Confession: I preferred Andy Williams to the Beatles and Elvis, though I did develop a taste for Elvis  in my 30's.  I also kept cigarettes hidden in my violin case.

Paula Myers Hatton

Learned to dance

Master's degree in English from Univ. of Tulsa in '73.  Listed in the Who's Who Among American Teachers in 1996.  (More important) Invited to play fiddle in the All-Girl Band at the Oklahoma State Fiddler's Convention at Western Hills Lodge. Learned to love and appreciate the great state of Oklahoma.

"Oh, you can't do that!  What will people think or say?"

Loose ties now, and lovely memories.  Family cemetery plot in Ada with Alfred Roscoe    Sugg, M.D., 1894-1961; Laura Lano Sugg, 1896-1967; David Cozzens Ramsay, M.D.,  1919-1998; Virginia Sugg Ramsay, 1920-2000.

Sugg Clinic; Byrd's Mill; Friday Night Football; Thena McBride Dance Studio

Favorite/vivid memory - taste of Zamudio's; smell of new tennis balls; feel of '55 Chevy steering wheel; sound of cheering crowds; sight of "mammoth" rocks at Devil's Den; shock of the JFK assassination announcement during afternoon chemistry class

I do believe I welcomed David Davis and Barbara Harris to the Presbyterian Church infant nursery following their respective births in March 1946.

Since 1984 I've ambled along a winding path and worn some interesting hats:  producer for a video history series celebrating Amarillo's 100th; director of family program at Amarillo hospital chemical dependency treatment center; archivist at NASA & Baylor College of Medicine in Houston; assistant on Bishop's staff at the Episcopal Diocese of New York, archivist for Grace Church in NYC and for Stepping Stones, the Bedford Hills, NY home of Bill & Lois Wilson, the founders of AA & Al-Anon; and assistant to the President of the New-York Historical Society.

Nothing major, but random accomplishments include hosting Nancy De as a foreign exchange student at AHS, earning a Master's from Harvard in Soviet Studies way back in  the Soviet Union/Cold War days; and organizing a cheap and busy long weekend in New York City for a dozen Ada girls just days before the Twin Towers fell.

If successful in my general plan to stay healthy, curious and active, I hope to enjoy two adult sons, do freelance history research, design Ahnentafel genealogy quilts, travel   some, and perhaps take up tennis again.

To seek advice now and then!

Just cousins & a few friends.  Most of my "ties" have passed away and are laid to rest in Rosedale Cemetery. Ada will always be "home" though.

High School Championship football; Bob’s Bar-b-que (yum!); the cement plant and longest continuous conveyor belt; Byrd’s Mill water that can’t be matched for drinking, but is far too cold to swim in; the petrified tree at ECU; and a great place to grow up in.

I take the blame for nothing!!!!  But my favorite memories are dragging Main, Carl’s Drive-In, The Huddle, Miss Britt’s English class (she was a hoot!),and football games on Friday nights. There were also the "hootenannys" and "parking." Come on now, I know I’m not the only one who went parking!!

I haven’t kept in touch with any classmates on a regular basis, however I have had more opportunities to talk with Tom Criswell than I have with anyone else from our class and he’s become a good friend to me. I just found out that one of my closest childhood friends had passed away when I visited our class website.  Linda Kay Mowdy was my best friend from the 5th grade at Hayes Elem. until after we graduated and then we both moved and lost track.  It is very sad to see her name listed on the Memory Page, along with so many others. I consider several others "friends" but don’t stay in contact with anyone from our class, but would like to.

I became a widow while living in Las Vegas in 1992.  My late husband, Dean (Tyler) was laid to rest at Rosedale in Ada.  I later moved to Beaumont, TX where I met my present husband, Wade, and we married in 2000.  Other changes are my hair color (I was a "bottle blonde" at the 20th and now I’m a red-head!); I look and act more like my mother every day (in other words, I’m getting older and "fluffy".

I am happily married; I have two grown sons who are self-supporting w/exciting jobs (Jeff is a producer at ABC Radio in Dallas and Tracy is a musician.)  My husband and I have a little "Cheers" business we just recently opened; I own a ’98 Red Corvette.  I’ve learned to play golf, wouldn’t consider myself a good player but I do keep it in the fairway!!  I’ve survived all these years and that’s saying a lot.

To retire from working for someone else one of these days and just make money from our business.  I plan to spend as much time in Las Vegas as I want to and can possibly afford, plus live to be really, really old so I can say and do the things I’ve always wanted to and have the excuse to get by with it.  Sort of like that line from "Fried Green Tomatoes" where Kathy Bates tells the two young girls who stole her parking space, "I’m older and have more insurance!!"

"Find you a job in Ada where your family and friends are" and "Don’t marry him" (my first marriage lasted over 25 years and I’m expecting my second one to last that long!!)

Yes, friends and wonderful memories.

Miles Lewis, the brain surgeon that was the age of our parents; also quarter horses!!!!!

Memory: Going the wrong way on Main Street looking for the football parade, finding it and doing a u-turn in front of the police car leading it and then leading the police and the parade. Cindy Dicus was driving.
Confession:  You sure don't look like a Priest. Just spank me father for I have definitely sinned.

Eddie Blackmon and I were born on the same day at Valley View, but neither one knew the world turned.  The "Kinder Crew" picture I've included will tell all.

The size and location of almost everything on my body.

Masters Degree, Squash player, Lillie Langtry Wine Society Board Member, Bull Fighting with a red table cloth and my sophisticated colleagues while mariachis played at our  faculty "school is out for the summer party."

To be sure my accomplishments continue to deteriorate in the fashion in which my second husband and friends have become accustomed.

"Don't get married, you're only 19."  "Climbing the water tower is illegal and unsafe." "It's a riding lawn mower, not a car; so don't let me catch you dragging main." "You can't water ski, you're wearing a dress."  "I'm the mid-wife, I'm supposed to deliver the baby."