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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

CHS and he was selected to the all-conference team his first year.

In 1929 Zell Waits coached CHS girls track team to a state championship. Zell now lives

in a retirement home near Ocala, is reasonably healthy and alert.
When the Rev. Jerry Adkins preached the funeral service for his friend Rev. D. O. Goss
in April 1992, he used the notes in Rev. Goss’s own Bible for his sermon.

Leon Lions? Leon Lyons? . . . Gene Cox (CHS, 1952) spent most of his professional life
as head football coach of the Tallahassee Leon Lions. A year ago, his daughter Cynthia married Will

Lyons. Now comes the big question. If Cynthia and Will have a son, will they name him Leon -
as in Leon Lyons!

Distinguished minority educator... Maureen P. Williamson, CHS Teacher of the year in
1992, has been named winner of the Ida S. Baker Distinguished Minority Educator Award.

Education Commissioner Betty Castor will present her the award at a Tallahassee banquet. Ms.
Williamson also pastors two churches and is a counseling specialist. Congratulations, Maureen!

She Was Known As The Milk Lady

June 29,1993

Caroline Wieselthaler, now 84, dropped out of Columbia High School at age 15 to help her

father run the family dairy. Through hard work she became so successful she was known around
town as “the milk lady.” But let’s go back to the first of the story.

The Wieselthaler family arrived in New York from Austria in 1914. Caroline was two years
old at the time. The family moved to Lake City where the weather was warm and the land cheap,

and they bought land off Gum Swamp Road north of Lake City.
After encountering no luck farming and raising chickens, the family bought cows and started
a small dairy.

Their luck improved dramatically when the owner of the Blanche Hotel, also an Austrian,

awarded the Wieselthalers a contract to provide all the hotel’s milk. Problem: The Wieselthaler’s
dairy was over five miles from the Blanche Hotel and the family had no transportation. Solution:
Mr. Wieselthaler carried the milk on his back to the hotel - five miles, one way - every day of the

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