Tina Wright Photography: Sheffield High School

Reflections Past and Reflections Present ... starting from 1978 ... and jumping to 2010!

The picture on the top was taken Craig's Senior Year "1978" and the picture on the bottom was taken this past August, 2010! ... :) ... and I took them both! LOL! ... I could remember the top picture well, and I even described to Craig the jacket that he was wearing, although I couldn't remember the exact pose. He was swearing to me that I was making it up! But... at my 30 Year Reunion this past August, I coaxed Craig into letting me try & recreate the shot (obviously the best that I could remember it!) right there in the halls of Sheffield High School! Too Much Fun for me!! (Craig... ??? not so much...) ... :) ... I love this man! He consistently lets me "play" and do what I do, knowing I have this crazy idea in my head, and he knows it's going to make me smile, even though he thinks it's gonna cost him some possible embarrassment. I didn't care which row of lockers, I just knew it had to be in front of some lockers! So... we made our way upstairs (avoiding some of the teachers who were working on their classrooms getting ready for the new year... and avoiding some of my classmates who were still hanging around!). Craig, Thank You for being such a great sport! I loved being able to combine my new shot with my old one!

Why am I just now posting these you ask???... Well... I only last night found my "1978" picture! I knew that it existed, but I haven't been able to put my hands on it!! Craig and I started dating when he was a Senior and I was a Sophomore. We were involved in club activities at school, and my guess is that I took this picture after one of our meetings. (Like I mentioned before... it wasn't unusual for me to carry a camera around with me!!) I finally found this picture tucked away when I was searching for these ... :) ...

With today being Veterans Day I wanted to post a picture of my special Veteran as my profile picture on FaceBook. Craig served in the Persian Gulf War on the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy. He spent six years in the United States Navy and three of those years we spent in London, England as a family. It was truly an incredible experience and many God Stories in the middle of it all! :) ... I am very proud of my husband! A 1978 graduate of Sheffield High School, a 1983 graduate of The University of North Alabama, a part of The United States Navy, Veteran of the Persian Gulf War, a God Fearing Man, Loves Jesus with all his heart, Loving Husband and Loving Father!

Thank you to my precious husband, for who you are and for serving our country! and... Thank you to all of our Veterans past and present for helping to provide for us the opportunity to live in this great land we call The United States of America ...

Capturing Memories ... Past and Present...
Tina :) ...
Tina Wright Photography
www.tinawrightphotography.com

I am a 1980 Graduate of Sheffield High School in Sheffield, Alabama. That is only about an hour and a half from where I live in Huntsville. Last weekend I celebrated my "30 Year Class Reunion"!! ... Unbelievable!! I say a lot, that I don't feel nearly as old as "they" (whoever "they" are) tell me that I am. Our class had not had a formal reunion since our "10th Class Reunion" so for many, we had not seen each other in 20 years! On Saturday we had a "bring your own picnic lunch" on the Campus at the school, we were able to take a tour, reminsce, catch up on friendships, and for me begin taking hundreds of pictures! If you are on FaceBook you can go to the Sheffield High School Class of 1980 Link to see many of those. From the picnic I had several highlights and there is no way to mention them all today... but here are a few... My precious husband became my assistant for the day because I took our Group Photos, I set them up and Craig took the shot! He did an awesome job! The funny part came when other friends asked him to take pictures with their cameras too! It worked out pretty well, because I would in turn hand him my camera and say "do mine too!" LOL! I have more pictures of me on my camera than my camera has EVER seen!!

(This picture was taken the Summer of 1978)

Craig graduated from Sheffield in 1978 and we started dating when I was a Sopomore so we spent a lot of time roaming the halls of this school! It was fun doing it again with my Husband(who we recently celebrated our 24th Anniversary!)/Assistant for the day. I couldn't have done last weekend without him!! Thank you Craig! I love you!! :) ...

That night we met at a well known local Restaurant, Dale's Steakhouse, to complete our evening and our Reunion. Yes, the Sheffield High School Class of 1980 created many new memories in 2010 and we are already making plans for a "35th Reunion" in 2015! We all decided we will NOT wait quite so long to get together next time! ... It was so great to see everyone!

This sort of became "The Team" that pushed the reunion together, although "not pictured" is another classmate Barry Rickard who also played a crucial role. That doesn't mean that we did everything by any means! It takes way too many to mention!! I just think we were hardheaded enough to keep pushing! LOL! With our adult lives being SO busy it really is hard to get everything together. But... it is ALWAYS worth the effort!

Thedra Allen Richardson & I were on the Dance Team together our Senior Year ... I love this "girl" !! She was always so much fun! We were the only two Seniors on the Dance Team, and that was the first year for the Dance Team at Sheffield, such an honor! ... She is still a Diva too!

Nancy Pursley and I have been friends since 2nd Grade, Mrs. McCarty's class... Nancy is one of my "Forever Friends" ... She is what I call a "Friend through thick & thin" ... Always only a phone call away ... and currently lives in the Atlanta area... I (We) count on Nancy to help us keep up with our classmates through the years. She is kind and merciful and has always been the one to let us know when a classmate has had a death in the family or has had a serious need... I haven't been able to spend time with Nancy in a very long time and it was so great to see her!! :) ... She laughed & said that we kept up better with each other when Craig & I lived in London ("Snail Mail") than we do now! (That is until FaceBook came along! Yay FB!) ...

Leslie Blake DiNella and I... another "Forever Friend" ... Leslie & I have been friends since 6th Grade! and no matter how long it has been since we have seen each other last, we always manage to pick right back up where we left off last... She & her family currently live in the Nashville area. She married a Sheffield graduate also, and I used to work for his precious dad, Dr. Ronald R. DiNella who passed away a couple of years ago.

Our precious Foreign Exchange Student, Rodrigo Ferrada who came all the way from Chile to be with his former SHS Classmates! We had so much fun seeing Rodrigo again! I had the privilege of becoming friends with Rodrigo our Senior Year because he was a part of the band with us! and such a hoot he was!

He hasn't changed a bit!! LOL! ... Yes, I took the picture above back in 1980... (I share a lot of how I have been carrying a camera around with me since I was in the 5th grade, not quite up to Digital Quality, but I'm so glad I have the memories!!) ...

Thanks for letting me take some extra time to share a few special moments from last weekend with you! ... There were SO MANY MORE!!! ...