Veritas 2025

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Across
  1. 3. I got out of a ticket once by saying I was trying to open a Twinkie and hit the gas by accident
  2. 5. I pierced my ear in college as a joke and then let it grow in before my father found out. Only wore an ear ring for two days
  3. 7. I am the reigning Veritas Olympic Paper Airplane Toss Gold Medalist
  4. 8. I enter writing competitions and never win
  5. 11. During my last semester in high school, I was mentored by Parkland Hospital's chief of pediatric surgery
  6. 12. I got to sing “Happy Birthday” to Willie Nelson on his 89th birthday!
  7. 13. I played trombone with the jazz band on the local morning news show
  8. 15. once worked as a fill-in DJ for a Tejano radio station
  9. 17. A Texas statute that was found unconstitutional is based on a criminal act against me
  10. 20. I gave tours at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and in order to get the job, I had to get FBI clearance
  11. 21. I met with famous heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey one-on-one several times in the late 1990s
  12. 24. I have won 3 PSA (Prestonwood Sports Association) championship rings
  13. 26. In the Veritas Lip Sync Battle, I played a rubber duck
  14. 27. I can stand on the knuckles of my feet
  15. 28. The first time I ate chicken was in the 7th grade
  16. 29. I was a top receiver for the Baylor Bears from 1984-1987
  17. 31. I earned a Blackbelt in TaeKwonDo and fought on the All Army Boxing Team
  18. 32. I like to day-trade in my spare time
  19. 34. In high school, I won the dance contest at the ROTC Winter Ball
  20. 35. I used to have slumber parties in Elizabeth Taylor's old bedroom. Yes, it was purple!
  21. 36. I have a cousin who was playmate of the year in 1970 and was on an episode of The Brady Bunch
  22. 37. Got cut in the head with a chainsaw at 10 years old and needed 13 stitches
  23. 38. Years ago, I was a computer hacker
  24. 39. I have mathematically proven that e^i(pi) +1 = 0, which is known as the most beautiful equation in mathematics.
  25. 41. My grandpa nicknamed me George.
Down
  1. 1. My father grew up with Larry McMurtry as his playmate and first cousin. Larry later wrote Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment and others.
  2. 2. runs 20 miles every week
  3. 4. Was named Citizen of the Year by The Lions Club in 1980, but then got arrested the next year
  4. 6. I have run a 4 minute mile.
  5. 9. I was invited to "scrub in" and help deliver our second child
  6. 10. I encouraged my dog by eating BowWow dog food circa 1970
  7. 14. I was baptized in the month of January and the water was NOT heated
  8. 16. one of our children was on the organ transplant list while in high school (bone graft for knee) and received the needed donation!
  9. 18. I was the wizard in a Wizard of Oz play in the third grade.
  10. 19. I was suspended from middle school for 3 days for “fighting” a boy
  11. 22. I played golf with a man that had a heart attack and died right in front of me
  12. 23. I backed the family car out of our driveway and into the across-the-street neighbor's driveway when I was six years old
  13. 25. I served a one week suspension from the church basketball league
  14. 30. I thought my birthday was August 3rd until I was 12. That was not my real birth date. My family celebrated each year on August 3rd.
  15. 33. My father chose my major for me in college after I took every elective known to man. It took me 5 1/2 years to graduate.
  16. 40. I won a hula hoop contest in college