CCHS Old Timers hold reunion at new school
Remembering '58
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| The Clarke County High School Old Timers held their annual reunion in the new CCHS cafeteria Saturday. Graduates and former students from the 1930s to the 1970s were given tours of the new $6 million high school that was moved into in January. Shown are graduates of 1958, honored as the 50-year class, along with some who attended school with the class at various times. From left, starting with the first row: Voncile Dumas Phillips, Yvonne Tarleton Andrews, Sue Gibson Duke, Wilma Gates Day, Katherine Huggins Blanton, Dorothy Brown Lee, Martha Tate Hamilton, Barbara Jean Dyess Bradford, Kathryn Ikner Ludlow. Middle row: Jimmy Wilson, Lanier "Lou" Campbell, Frances Robinson Jackson, Helon Bowles Everse, Nora Finney Flowers, Clarice Sheffield Hoven, Maxine Dumas Larsen, Louise Robinson Davis, Kathryn Goodwin Gilchrist, Sarah Alice Fendley Bouler, Betty Joyce Overton Guy, Raymond Buffington. Back row: Becky Wilson Presnall, Mary Robinson Cartwright, Bobby Lunsford, Billy Fowler, Nelson Parker, Ted "Taddy" Klarman, Bob Helms and Jack Hamilton. There are many other classmates not pictured who did not attend Saturday's reunion. |
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Marion "Bumpy" Bumpers entertained the Clarke County High School Old Timers Saturday with highlights of 1958 gleamed from the pages of
The Clarke County Democrat. The 50-year-old history lesson was in honor of the Class of 1958.
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| Sue Duke, Class of 1958, talks with Ted Dunagan, Class of 1961. Dunagan has written a book, "A Yellow Watermelon," and autographed copies of a republished edition targeted for young readers at the Clarke County Museum Saturday afternoon. Dunagan was in Mobile earlier in the week, promoting his book on local TV stations and to school children. |
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Some of the highlights:
• Brady Hardware expanded its Grove Hill store.
• Superintendent Mathews named teachers for the new school year. They included Doug Barfield as an assistant coach at CCHS and Elizabeth Granade. Other teachers were Sue Coleman and Shirley Burge.
• Locke Bolen's sisters announced that they would be closing the Grove Hill movie theater. Bumpers asked how many remembered paying a dime and spending a Saturday watching movies. Many raised their hands.
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| Tommie Dee Bradford Kennedy, 94, was the oldest CCHS graduate in attendance and brought her 1931 diploma to prove it. She and Bernice Jordan Causey are the other surviving members of the class. Other graduates from the 1930s present were Elizabeth Jackson, Class of 1933, Sue Coleman, Class of 1934, and Stella McCorquodale, Class of 1939. |
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• Coach Prim made some changes on the football team, moving Bob Helms from center to end and Lanier Campbell from tackle to full back.
• Chuck roast at Floyd Burge's was 39 cents a pound.
• Ford Motor Company announced a new car- the Edsel. Bumpers asked how many in the audience had owned one. Thankfully, no one raised their hands. The car was considered a lemon.
• CCHS beat Leroy 31-7. Raymond Buffington, a member of the Class of '58, scored three touchdowns.
• Bob Helms, also a member of the Class of '58, was elected State FFA president. He went to the national convention in Kansas City but had to be back by Friday to play in the football game against Frisco City.
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| Ten members of the Class of '58 have died and they were remembered with candles Saturday. The deceased are Joyce Andrews Huggins, Claude Buckalew, Billy Hare, Perry Harrison, Sam Henderson, Shirley Hudson Stephens, Nancy Randall Dumas, Winnie Ree Schultz Henderson, Arnold Wade and Jean Wilson Goodman. Photos by Jim Cox |
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• A sewing plant was proposed for Grove Hill and over 1,200 made applications for jobs.
• CCHS beat Jackson 20-0. That fact brought a round of applause from Saturday's crowd.
• A movie featuring the new Rock 'n Roller Elvis Presley was showing in Jackson. Democrat editor George Carleton predicted there would be an outbreak of sideburns.
• Crawford Welch and Andy Lindsey won a trip to Cuba, of all places, for selling magazines.
• Mrs. Joe Hawkins went hunting. She took three shells and brought home two squirrels and two turkey gobblers. She used one shell on each of the squirrels and then shot the gobbler but found two had been hit.
• Land for the new Boy Scout camp south of Grove Hill was purchased for $68,000.
• The famous Alabama blues singer W. C. Handy died in 1958.
• L. B. Stringer built a dairy bar on the site of the old Leggett Hotel. The hotel had been the Wells Hotel for years.
• T-bone steaks were offered at the IGA for 99 cents a pound.
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