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ANOTHER REUNION ... Wanda Kato has announced that the Christmas reunion for the
CHS classes of 1949-53 will be Saturday, December 10, at Ed Bedenbaugh’s home on County Road

135 (Noegel Road) starting at 6:00 p.m. This reunion group meets twice yearly and 146 attended
the two-day reunion this past summer. Several who were from out of town attended the summer

reunion: Miriam Hunter Ferguson, Drexel Roberts, Marianne Famell Whedbee, Alida Jane Van
Iderstine Grady, Lewyn Geiger, Iris Pueschel, Jim Stamper, Cora Larramore Bracewell, Delia

Larramore Rogers, Joanne Robinson Catledge, Albert Green and Albert Davis. Teachers and staff
who were there were Badger Langford, Elizabeth Witt Parker, Blanche Kirby and Hayden Folsom.

Looking ahead to the summer reunion, it will be held August 5 at Brian’s Restaurant. For more
information, call Wanda at 752-8696. All these classes join in thanking Wanda for being the heart

and soul and inspiration for these reunions for nearly 30 years!

The Two Best Speeches

November 22, 1994

Teachers Debbie Odom and Bettye Lane recently gave two of the best speeches I have ever

heard. Debbie, Columbia County Teacher of the Year, spoke at the Public Schools Foundation
banquet with such inspiration that the audience of 195 gave her a rousing standing ovation. Bettye,

1993 Teacher of the Year, delivered such a beautiful eulogy at the funeral of her dear friend, Eulene
Wheeler, that it touched the heart of every person there, perfectly describing Eulene’s great life as

mother, musician, and master teacher.
TEACHER TALK .,. Within one month, we lost four of our county’s most outstanding

educators: P. A. Browning, Sr., Grace Moore, Minnie Ruth McGhin, and Eulene Wheeler.
Congratulations to Wanda Claunch and Melvin Goggins who were named Teachers of the
Month at CHS North Campus for the first two months of school.

Kudos to Ron “Doc” Salzburg, also a teacher at CHS North, who has been commended by
“Keep Florida Beautiful, Inc.” for demonstrated leadership in the area of environment stewardship.

ON THE WAY UP______Former Lake Citian Scott McCaleb, past Gator Bowl president and

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