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Faris Brannen
Congratulations also to CHS graduate Faris Brannen, Frostproof head coach, on winning the

state 2A championship for 1992. His parents are Fayree and the late Cleve Brannen. In 1991 Faris
took his team to the finals before losing.

Danny Green
Also in the 1991 state finals, CHS Danny Green, son of Dot and Calvin Green, took his

Haines City team within one win of the state championship. Both Faris and Danny are fine,
outstanding gentlemen, the kind you like to see coaching young people.

Marguerite Hunt
When Marguerite Hunt retired as a county school food services manager after twenty-five

and a half years, she had missed only two days work, one day of sick leave and one to attend her
brother’s funeral. Marguerite used her cooking skills this year to prepare Christmas turkey and
dressing for the visually impaired class, sometimes called “The Blind Alley.”

Remembering Inez Adicks

December 29, 1992

Inez Duncan Adicks, age 96, died December 19, 1992. She had been a member of the local

First Presbyterian Church for 80 years.
Her father built the handsome, historic, two-story brick home (often called the Duncan-

Herlong house) located at the comer of West Duval and Alachua Streets. From the balcony of that
home, she watched Haley’s Comet back in 1910. In 1931 Inez married Richard Adicks who became

fire chief. Richard Adicks’ father, George Adicks, founded the Lake City Fire Department and was
its first fire chief. That first fire department was made up of volunteers and its “fire engine” was a

horse-drawn vehicle. Inez Duncan Adicks’ brother, Mose Duncan, wrote a small book in the 1940’s,
entitled “How to Get Rich(By a Man Who Never Accumulated a Dime”). Inez Adicks’ son, Richard,

(CHS, 1950) is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida (Orlando) and he has
written two books: “A History of Oveida, Florida,” and a novel, “A Court of Owls,” partly set in

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