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

young football coach-and Coach Cox led the Bulldogs to their only
undefeated season.

The other attention-grabbing name was former WSHS principal Colin
English who later served as Florida’s Superintendent of Public Instruction
(now Commissioner of Education) from 1937-49.

I also learned three other interesting things. First, the first Girl Scout
troop in Florida (and second in the nation) was formed in White Springs.
Second, there were 2,000 German prisoners of war housed in White
Springs during World War II. Third, Florida Normal College, the first teacher
training school in Florida, was located in White Springs.

Malcolm Greene served as the day’s Master of Ceremonies and concluded
the day by saying, “We were lucky to have had these wonderful teachers
and principals. They left their marks on our lives— and, for many of us, on
our backsides, too!”

SKIPPING AROUND

*Former CHS student-athlete Brandon Allen is now home from a military
tour in Afghanistan. Brandon’s parents, Willie B. and Oni Allen, will hold a
‘Welcome Home’ fish fry / barbecue on Saturday, April 29, from 4 p.m.-8
p.m. at their home in the Winfield Community. Everyone is welcome.

*School Museum thanks to Fort White Elementary School principal Michael
Allen for donating Gladys Cason’s 1941 FWHS diploma. School officials
signing the diploma were Supt. R. 0. Williams, School Board Chairman John
S. McColskey, Trustees Board Chairman Carl Booker, and Principal Eldridge
Collins.

*Similar thanks to CHS grad Cricket Morgan who donated 12 LCJHS ‘Blab’
newspapers; printed programs from the CHS 1967 senior banquet and
graduation; and a remarkable photo of the court house steps ‘decorated’
with mock graves for the politicians who lost their elections in 1967.

*Ada M. Moore, age 105, of Seattle, died March 22. She and her husband
Finley Moore were mainstays of this community in the 1940’s. Finley
owned Lake City Abstract and Title Co. and once ran for U.S. Senator

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