Tom Ricks

Name: Tom Ricks
Email: Pat_tomricks@yahoo.com

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.  

I remarried (Patricia Beemon) in 1991 and we moved to our current location in Wimberley TX.  We both continued to teach band.  I retired in '01 and Pat retired 2 years later.  Since then, we have spent much of our time traveling around the US, Europe, Canada, and Asia.
I am writing this info from Sacramento where we are caring for an ill family member.  Hopefully, we will be back in Texas soon and would love to get in touch with former friends from Newton