Devin Hooper

Devin Hooper was born and raised in Baytown, Texas. He graduated in 1984 from Ross Sterling. His first jobs while in high school was working at Grays Pharmacy, Estes Exxon and KBUK radio station as a DJ. He has had many jobs through the years including Comcast where is worked 17 years as an advanced tech, Galveston Historical Foundation in the architectural salvage warehouse and the assistant to the director at Baytown Historical Museum. He has always cared about others and wanted to make them happy and the jobs he chose reflected that.

In 1984 when he was a senor in high school he found an old building and wanted to learn more about what it was used for. It had square nails which is something he had never seen, so he asked his history teacher if he knew anything about the building. Very little information was available. He made it his mission to find out all he could about the old building. As it turned out it was the Wooster School built in 1898. With all the research, interviewing old students and a teacher from the school, his teacher told him to enter the history contest. He won 1st place in city and regional contest, then went on to state where he placed 2nd in the Texas State History Finals. That old school was later restored and placed at Independence Park on North Main where it being used again to teach students.

In Devin's off time he enjoys spending time with family, friends, fishing, camping and antique festivals. He volunteers as a docent at Baytown Historical Museum teaching people about Baytown history or you might find him down in Galveston enjoying the food and history that surrounds the island.

His hobbies include off-roading in his Jeep Wrangler, wood work and turning custom pens on his lathe.