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

JANUARY 4, 2004

FAREWELL, RICK RAWLEIGH

Sherwood Arden "Rick" Rawleigh, 77, died December 31, 2003. He had taught
physical education mainly at Lake City Junior High School for more than 32
years.

Rich was an extraordinary P.E. teacher.

Prior to his arrival, P.E. consisted mainly of informal games of tag football,
softball, and basketball.

To those, Rick added wrestling, track, a host of other sports, and health
education.

He started a formal intramural program involving students school-wide where
homerooms competed in a variety of sports, sometimes after school with the whole
school watching.

He created the first LCJHS Falcon football and basketball teams and coached them
a long time without any supplementary pay.

He coached swimming in the summer and took many students to AAU and Junior
Olympic competition in a variety of sports.

He introduced organized football to the youngsters who later won CHS's only
state championship, and he promoted girls' participation in sports long before
it became the accepted thing to do.

Young fellows like Mike Lee, Glenn Hunter, Steve Chamberlin, David Shackelford,
Donnie Williams, and many others learned organized sports under Coach Rawleigh.

Rest in Peace, Rick Rawleigh. You served our school system and our community
well, and you left everything a lot better than the way you found it.

SKIPPING AROUND

Albert King has been a vital member of the Lake City Church of God for 53 years
and is still very active in his church...In that same church, kudos to Music
Director Margie Markham for directing their choir in yet another splendid
Christmas cantata...Sherrill-Guerry Funeral Home is an established and respected
local mortuary but with the move of Brian Guerry to Guerry Funeral Home, there
is no longer anybody named Sherrill or Guerry affiliated with Sherrill-Guerry
Funeral Home...The 1935 football helmet you saw worn in the Parkview-First
Baptist Christmas music scenes at the LCCC Alfonso Levy PAC was on loan from the
School Museum, compliments of the CHS Class of 1973, courtesy James
Carmichael...Credit Former CHS and FSU, now Carolina Panther football star Brian

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