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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

complaining, decided to build their own band hall, completely separate and apart from all the other

buildings, but still on campus. Using generous donations from townspeople and doing much of the
work themselves, they constructed their own band hall, a wooden structure located on the southwest

fomer of the school property, near the comer of West St. Johns and South Fifth Streets.
During the moving around, the band was not sitting idly. They worked hard to become good

musicians and played everywhere they were asked: concerts in Olustee Park, football games, parades
school assemblies and Sunday concerts in churches. Soon they became the pride of CHS and the
whole town.

The band had about 25 members. Robert Lord was the drum major. Bob McColskey played
trombone, H. G. Cochran and Lloyd Swilley played trumpet and Albert Bonney played mellophone

... “A backward French horn with a lot less plumbing.”
Thank you, Albert Bonney, for this fascinating account of our first CHS band, and also for

donating your memory laden “band letter” from the first CHS band to our school museum.

Susan Found a Ship

September 13, 1994

Back in 1971, Susan Langston found a ship! At least part of a ship. Here is her story.

One warm September morning, Susan was enjoying a walk along Ludium Beach in New Jersey
when she saw several boards that looked like driftwood. But when she noticed that the boards had
unusual nails and wooden pegs like none she had ever seen before, her curiosity was aroused so she

went home and told her husband, Oliver Langston (CHS 1943), a former naval officer and he took
an interest in it.

Later Susan and Oliver returned to the beach and this time they found 12 feet of a hump-like
section of fully exposed wood, clearly part of a ship. There seemed to be a lot more buried just
underneath so Susan registered a salvage claim on the wreck with the New Jersey Secretary of State.

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