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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

A Look at Some of the Folks You

Read About

January 4,1994

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This is my 67 column since I started writing back in September 1992. Here are some of the
topics I have covered in the past six months:
1. Right here you read about two Blue Horse bicycle winners, Ed Montgomery and Ernest
Williams, and about the CHS class of 1952 that had four sets of siblings.

2. “CHS Flyby” told you about Tom Jeffords (CHS 1951) who flew his World War fl

warplane back to Lake City and buzzed his old high school building, but got caught by Ann Wilby,
his former music teacher and “Flying High” told you that twelve of CHS Coach Hobart Hooser’s
former football players became combat pilots in World Welt n.

3. This column told you about D. F. Creel setting a world’s record laying concrete blocks,
Kenneth Winford Nettles hand-lettering all University of Florida diplomas for a decade and

Hallijeane Chalker rising to the top as a foreign secretary to two U. S. ambassadors.
4. “When Lake City Was Smaller” told how our town dentist, Dr. Reveire, once got a letter

through the mail addressed simply to “The old tooth carpenter upstairs from the drug store across
the street from the park.” Another column told the story of how the Crawford boys became known

to one and all as Biddy, Chicken and Egg.
5. “Early Black Educators” told how pioneer black teachers like Minnie Niblack, Vertie

Williams Barrett, Josephine Franklin and so many others were the heart and soul of ill-equipped,
segregated schools and expressed the opinion that there should be a Hall of Fame to honor them.

6. “Remembering Billy Hale, Sr.” told of the lifelong dedication of a man committed to the
improvement of his alma mater and his community. “Milk Lady” told the beautifully poignant story
of Caroline Wieselthaler who dropped out of school at age 15 to help her immigrant father deliver

milk, and how her dedication to personal customer service made her a local institution.

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