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course, there is a Lake City, Tennessee.
Looking Backward
February 2,1993
Memory of a lifetime: Leigh, Jenalyn, and Jay Swisher went to Washington, D.C. with
their dad, Jimmy, to attend the Presidential Inauguration. They were thrilled to see President
Clinton but also excited to see the Rev. Billy Graham and actor Christopher Reed - and they got heir
photographs made with The Fonz: Henry Winkler.
Glynnel Presley coached the only boys state basketball championship team ever at
Richardson High School. His starting lineup was Earl Brooks, Theodore Fulger, Bernard
Zinnerman, Alvin (Sloopy) Merrick and Johnny Merrick for that championship season in 1968.
Coach Presley says Bernard Zinnerman is the best basketball player he ever coached: “Great all-
around player, extremely smart, he could do it all.”
By the way, Bernard Zinnerman’s father, Uriah, was an original signer of the legal
document which led to racial desegregation in Columbia County.
Speaking of winning Richardson teams, Coach Presley said many have asked what
happened to the athletic and other trophies when the Richardson building was tom down. “They
were first moved to the Woman’s Club on Martin Luther King Drive, but now they are located in
the Richardson recreation room,” he said.
The Magnolia Barbecue (“The Mag”) is tentatively set to be tom down sometime around
November 1993 as part of the street-widening project on East Duval Street. This establishment was
an important part of the teenage world of many local citizens. If you want to get photographs or
video tapes of this historic “hangout” for so many past CHS students, right now is the time to do it.
At the time of her death Jesse Gleason was the oldest graduate of Columbia High School.
That honor now falls to General Bob Harkenss.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes at CHS was organized 22 year ago in 1971 by Coach
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