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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

Mary Frances Bums Williams for photo of her dad, J. W. Bums, our longest serving school
superintendent. To Barbara Gray for a Columbia City yearbook and Roger Noll for a Mason City

yearbook. To Susan Green for a Watertown yearbook and to so many others who have helped. If
you have things to donate, please call 755-8183 and help make our school museum a success.

ON THE WILD SIDE...Vicki Overman (CHS, 1969) likes to joke that she went from high
school to college to prison. Actually she did go to prison but it was as a classroom teacher, an

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experience she sometimes refers to as her walk on the wild side”. After her prison job Vicki
became a coach at Citrus High School and repeatedly took her softball, volleyball, golf and tennis

teams to the state tournament. She has put her coaching career behind her and she is currently in her
fourth year as the school’s activities director. Quite an athlete herself, Vicki is a 10 handicap golfer

who played both basketball and softball for the UF Gators her last two years in college. She is now
considered one of the top athletic administrators in Central Florida. Citrus High School principal,
Ed Staten, says of Vicki, “Her professional standards are the highest. Her rapport with young people

is marvelous. Her work ethic is incredible. Vicki is a model of what teachers and coaches ought to
be like. Citrus High School is lucky to have her.”

Red’s Pepper Box

March 8,1994

John “Red” Davis wrote a column for this newspaper back in the 1930's. He called it “Red’s

Pepper Box” and it was the most popular column in the paper. He wrote about everybody and
everything going on in Columbia County. It seemed like everybody read his newsy, pleasantly toned
column. Back then, the Reporter was a weekly newspaper and everybody looked forward to that

Friday edition so they could read Red’s column and catch up on community news. There was
another reason people read Red’s column — he might have written something nice about them and

it was fun to have your name in the Pepper Box.
Red’s column covered every facet of community life. One week he might write about the

movies playing at the DeSoto and Grande Theaters. The next week he might write about a high

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