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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams






              I  also  had  a  GREAT history teacher,  Mr.  Carr.  I  loved  him.  He was

              thorough,  and  he  was  well  informed.  He  was  a  graduate  of  a
              college  up  in  Virginia,  and  I  forget which  one,  but  he  KNEW  world
              and  American  history  inside  and  "out",  and  he  taught  me  a  lot
              about how to write a  research  paper.


              My  sophomore  year  went  by  in  a  hurry,  and,  before  I  turned
              around  twice,  my junior year arrived.


              My junior year was  1974-75.


              That year,  my junior year,  I  was  elected  President  of the  Student
              Council  and  Lake  City  Academy,  president  of  the  National  Honor
              Society,  and  President of the  Senior Class,  our school.


              Our  headmaster  that  year  was  Mr.  Lauren  Rhine,  from
              Pennsylvania.


               He  was  a  theologian,  and  had  an  advanced  degree,  several  in
              fact,  from  major  universities  including  Temple  in  Philadelphia.  I
              liked  him  very  much.  He was a  good  Christian  and  a  good  man.


              Our  school  had  its  first  football  team,  the  Vikings.  We  lost  every
              game  except  one  against  a  Christian  School,  Northside  Christian,
              I think in  Jacksonville.


               Back  then,  the  Prep  Circuit,  included:  Rolling  Green  Academy,
              Alachua;  Marion  Academy,  Ocala;  a  Catholic  School  in  Ocala;  and
              Oak Hall,  Gainesville.


                Compared  to  most  of them,  who  had  student  bodies  in  excess  of
               6-700,  we were "teeny tiny",  but I wasn't.


               I  started  out  really  not  caring  much  about  football,  what  I  cared
               about was  going  on  the  trips,  but,  with  the  help  of our coach,  Mr.
               Gary  Kratzer,  who  was  a  good  looking  man,  kind  of  short,
               stocky,  but sort of an  all-around "jock",  I  got better.












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