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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

Taking a Look Back

June 22,1993

Aunt Jessie’s last words ... Jessie M Gleason (CHS, 1917 valedictorian) died January 21,

1993, and was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery. The last line of the epitaph on her gravestone tells you
something of her view of government: (in large letters) “No More Taxes.”

And the winner is... Two weeks ago this column asked if anyone could remember the last
time CHS had sent three athletes to Division 1 colleges on football scholarships the same year.

Reinard Wilson, Yatil Green, and Antonio Bradwell are the three from this year. Credit John
Justice and Hillard Hartley with supplying the correct answers: Tony Robinson, Robin Green,

and James McClellan all signed scholarships with the Gators in 1975.
Soaring textbooks costs ... Back in 1903, Lake City students went to Wise’s Drug Store to

buy their school books. Prices were low. In fact you could buy a copy of every textbook used in our
school system, 34 books in all, grades 1-12, for $28, brand new, or $18, used. Today at Lake City

Community College one book, “Medical Surgical Nursing”, cost $63.95. Of the approximately two-
hundred books in the college book store, about half are in the under $30 range and the rest are in the
$40-$60 range. K-12 texts are nearly as much.

Dean does it again ... Vanessa Dean Arnold, a former business education teacher at CHS,
received her doctor’s degree at UF in 1974. Now a professor in the school of business administration

of the University of Mississippi, Dean presented the keynote address at the annual Arkansas Business
Education Association conference.

Potpourri.. . The Rev. Isadore Williams, Jr.,long-time radio voice of the CHS Tigers, is
also the official public address system voice of Bethune-Cookman College.

Connie Hogan Knotts, manager of the LCCC book store, once came within one letter of one
word of being Suwannee County spelling champion back when she was in junior high school.

In 1972, the CHS yearbook cost $7.50. The 1993 yearbook cost $40.
In 1971, CHS teacher Doretha Burgess was named the Florida Chemistry Teacher of the

Year.. In 1967, son Jonathan, an honor student, was the first black student to play basketball for

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