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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams
administrators. Jerry is quite a guy; he has a Ph.D. in psychology and spent 11 years as a sports
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psychologist before entering the ministry. Thank you, Jerry, for your warm and humorous welcome!
The Lacey House
...One of the buildings at LCCC is called “The Lacey House” in honor of the Lacey family
who worked at the college in the 1960s. The family moved from Lake City but Bert Lacey
frequently returns here as a top official in the Florida Sports Hall of Fame Foundation. Bert is also
public relations director of Florida Leisure Acquisition Corporation which includes Silver Springs,
Wild Waters, Weeki Wachi, and Buccaneer Bay. Bert has a great love for Lake City and especially
remembers the thrill of coaching basketball at LCCC with the legendary Joe Fields.
A Golfer and a Scholar
...Carl St. Marie of Lake City and a senior finance major at FSU, represented the FSU men’s
golf team at the third annual “Gold Torch Gala”, a black tie affair that honors top scholar athletes
in each sport at FSU. Carl had the highest grade point average of any member of the golf team and
made the Dean’s List. Danny Marsee, also of Lake City, and a Seminole scholar/athlete, was
recognized for making the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll for 1993. Both Carl and
Danny are CHS graduates.
Cox: Six Times a Winner
December 28,1993
Football coach, Gene Cox, (CHS, 1952) has been named the Tallahassee Democrat’s Big
Bend Coach of the Year and The Florida Athletic Coaches Association’s Class A Coach of the Year
for all of Florida. Coach Cox took an 18 member Aucilla Christian Academy team to the District
Championship on the way to an 8-4 season. This marks the sixth time Coach Cox has received
Coach of the Year honors in his career and four of them have come at different schools: Jefferson
High (1960), Suwannee High (1962), Leon High (1967, ‘69’ and ‘74) and Aucilla (1993). Coach
Cox is Florida’s all-time winningest coach with 301 victories and he is a member of the Florida
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Sports Hall of Fame. He now ranks 13 in the nation on the all-time winning list for high school
coaches.
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