Happy, Happy, Happy (30 page)

My parents James H. and Merritt Robertson

My third-grade picture

Playing baseball in my junior year at North Caddo High School, Vivian, Louisiana

During my playing days conferring with North Caddo coach Ed Sigrest

The Robertson men in the early 1970s in Gonzales, Louisiana. Left to right: James (Pa), Tommy, Jimmy Frank, Si, Harold, and me

Kay and me—high school sweethearts

Kay as a sophomore at North Caddo

Kay with her Papaw Carroway and miniature pony, Tony

My sophomore year at Louisiana Tech (1966). Pictured here are the backfield and receivers. Terry Bradshaw is number 12 and I am number 10, on the back row third from left.

My first year teaching English and PE in Junction City, Arkansas

Alan, Jase, Kay, and me in 1972

From left to right: Alan, Kay, Willie, and Jase, Christmas 1976

Al Bolen and me in the early 1970s

Me in front of Granny and Pa’s house in Luna, Louisiana, holding catfish caught on the Ouachita River