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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

Happy Birthday, Poke McHenry

October 25,1994

TWO GREAT CLASS REUNIONS . . . This past week I was lucky enough to be

invited to attend two enjoyable class reunions. Last Friday Hubert and Shirley Dicks Markham
hosted the CHS class of 1939 to a picnic lunch at their farm on Price Creek Road. The food and

fellowship were just wonderful. This CHS class of 1939 was the first class to wear caps and gowns
at graduation. There are 56 members remaining out of a class of 90. Three of the classmates lost

their lives in military service during World War II and the Korean conflict: Affie Pearce, Hubert
Devant and Carl Callahan. Special guests were Gertrude Hooser, widow of Coach Hobe Hooser,

and Anna Groover Carr, one of the favorite teachers of the class.
Then on Sunday I motored down to Wilson Springs to join the CHS class of 1938 for its get-

together at Selby and Pauline Kinard’s river place. Selby caught and fried the fish and the food was
indescribably delicious. There is a closeness among these class members - a sweetness of fellowship
— that is typical of several classes of the 1930s. I was glad to share the day with old friends like Jack

and Eunice Herndon, Alex and Margurette Marton, J. B. and Polly Cobb, Mickey Messer, Fairfax
Bates Ralston, Powell Summers, Dot Guynn and the other lovely class members.

CROWN JEWELS ... Friend Esther Moore (CHS 1939) has asked my help in locating a
local book called “The Crown Jewels of Columbia County,” a book detailing the histories of several

Columbia County churches. This book was compiled by Mrs. R. F. Philbeck in 1959 as part of the
centennial celebration here. Part of this history was recorded in the centennial yearbook “A Century

in the Sun.” If any of you know where a copy of this book is, please call me at 755-8183 and I will
pass the information onto Esther.
OUR COLLEGE PLAYERS . . . It’s a lot more fun watching college football games on

television when you know the players, see them play a prominent part in the games and hear Lake
City and Columbia High School mentioned on national television. These days, you can change the

channels and watch Shayne Edge booming punts for Florida, Reinhard Wilson sacking a quarterback
for FSU and Yatil Green catching a touchdown pass for Miami. Then you can pick up a paper and
read where young Tommy Hornsby, six foot-three inches, 220-pounder tight end “from Columbia

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