Oct 7, 2025 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton August 17, 2022, was a very sad day for the many friends, classmates, players, students and fellow coaches and educators of Calvin Lee Phillips of Pearland. For that was the day life ended for the 1972 graduate of Columbia High School. Calvin was...
Oct 4, 2025 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Versatility, hustle, dedication and, most of all, talent, were the trademarks of Kim Welsch when she participated and excelled in multiple sports while attending Columbia High School in the 1990s. The former outstanding soccer, volleyball, cross...
Sep 22, 2025 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton When Columbia High School Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Earnest Pena informed a gathering of West Columbia Rotarians recently that Jonathan Champagne would be among a quartet of new additions to the Roughnecks Athletics Hall of Honor in...
Jun 6, 2025 | From The Vault of Texas History
This story was originally posted June 6, 2022, in the West Columbia Museum’s “Vault of Texas History” Jun 6, 2022 | From The Vault of Texas History By Benjamin Tumlinson Being removed from Memorial Day by less than a week, the...
May 26, 2025 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is a prominent national memorial dedicated to the men and women who served in the Vietnam War. The memorial’s most striking feature is the wall itself, inscribed with the names of the more than...
May 24, 2025 | From The Vault of Texas History
Another member of the Roughnecks state semifinals football team of 1957 has passed away. James Bramlitt Caldwell Jr. died May 17, 2025, in San Angelo at the age of 85. A graveside funeral service at the Santa Anna Cemetery was held earlier today, Saturday, May 24,...
