Staying in touch

Retired LHS counselor holds special friendship with former exchange student

erick mitchell | dispatch record Sherry and Bob Ellis hold a photo of Adam Jablonski’s family and the former LHS exchange student’s published textbook. Jablonski is a university professor now in Poland.
erick mitchell | dispatch record Sherry and Bob Ellis hold a photo of Adam Jablonski’s family and the former LHS exchange student’s published textbook. Jablonski is a university professor now in Poland.

When Sherry and Bob Ellis decided to leave the Sooner State and settle in Horseshoe Bay for retirement, little did they know a lifelong friendship awaited them at Lampasas High School.

After arriving in Texas, Sherry Ellis decided she wasn’t ready for retirement. Instead, she became a counselor at Lampasas High School just before the start of the 2001-2002 school year.

During the early days in her n…