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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams
7. “Past Polticians” told of the time Gov. Fred Cone hosted a CHS football banquet in the
governor’s mansion and how 32-year lax collector Alvin Hosford was so popular that he once was
reelected when he was thousands of miles from Lake City serving in the Pacific during World War
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8. Right here in this space you read about Ottis Houston starting the Lake City Junior High
“Awards Day” tradition in 1961, about Lydia Estess who graduated from CHS in 1964 as
salutatorian and was killed two months later in a car accident at age 18, and about Jessie Gleason
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whose tombstone epitaph read No More Taxes.”
9. You may remember reading about Miller Brooks, whose habit of wearing many layers of
clothing saved his life when an entire train passed over his body, about school board member Jim
Arnold winning a Junior Samples (of TV’s Hee Haw) lookalike contest, and about Edna Black
Hindson who overcame prejudice against the disabled to become Attorney General of Girls’ State
and “Most Likely to Succeed” in her senior class.
The Remarkable Geibeigs
January 11,1994
The local Giebeig clan has done remarkable things in our community. Here are just a few
of them. The late Paul Giebeig was the first principal at Five Points Elementary School where he
served for 26 years. Contractor Bud Giebeig built Melrose Park Elementary School. Richard
Giebeig was named the top high school running back in Florida in 1974 and went to college in
Tennessee on a football scholarship. Ann Giebeig was Miss Columbia High and Carol Giebeig was
Homecoming Queen her senior year. Robert Giebeig has a doctorate degree in history and owns two
successful businesses in St. Augustine. Earl Giebeig was the first male cheerleader at CHS and he
was so good that he opened doors for other male cheerleaders in later years. Lori Giebeig was the
top swimmer at CHS her senior year and swam in college at Georgia Southern. Erin Giebeig played
on the CHS varsity softball team when she was just an eighth-grader. Van “Iron Man” Giebeig was
captain of his high school football team. And on and on. You could fill an entire section of this
newspaper with the wonderful accomplishments of the Giebeigs and what they have meant to our
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