McCullough High School Alumni Give Back to the Community
The following story was written by students in the Conroe ISD Student Journalism Network. Follow the link to The Woodlands High School newspaper, The Caledonian, to read the full story.
By: Amalia Lopez and Trevor Reese, The Woodlands High School seniors
McCullough is the beloved junior high school that feeds into The Woodlands High School. However, from 1976-81, it was one of only two high schools in Conroe ISD, and had a glorious 20-year high school tenure until the current TWHS campus opened in 1996. Still, there are many residents of The Woodlands who carry the legacy of McCullough High School with them. From this, a group of McCullough High School alumni came together to give back to the community that once fostered them.
The Big McC Club is a group of McCullough High School alumni that wanted to come together and raise money for a local charity that focuses on helping members of the community. “I saw this great need for people to raise money and the organization, the board, does a good job, but I also knew I had this network of friends,” Jo Ann Linzer, president and founder of the club says. She began contacting some people that she went to high school with; many of whom she kept in contact with, and many former classmates that supported her while she was running for district judge. “I kind of thought, ‘how good would it be if we could harness that and all of these people get together and try and raise money for a charity that needs it?’” she explains.