Some pictures and memorabilia worthy of remembrance
That's Central Elementary in the background. They closed it this year..no more in use it's just sitting there. The group in front (also just sitting there) is Miss Hornbeak's first grade class of 1945-46. They are from the left back Jerry Weaver, Gene Smith Harrison, Hugh Wade, Gene Virgin Miss H., Larry Edmundson, Dale Locke, J. Gordon Clayton, Larry Primrose. Row 2: Lynn Swindle, Jerry Wayne King, Rex Bushong, Ronnie Masoud, Bobby Hubbs, Larry Joe Carmical, Mickey Quinton, Bobby Kent Nipp. Front Carolyn Cultra, Margaret Colville,Phyllis Cole, Lavonne Gardner, Bobbie Goodman, Betty Burns, Mamie Jimerson, (outside frame but visible in another view) Helen Gray. I didn't make out to well with the girls-a trait I had aquired by the first grade. Margaret Colville Payne provided all the names and the new/old pictures below.
25th Reunion in 1982
Fire Prevention Week at the old Fire Station.
Gordon Clayton, Wayne Brown, Kenny Kirkland, Larry Wuench, Lynn Swindle, Bobby Nipp, with Lou Wrather. The rest were jealous because they got to ride the Firetruck.
Headed for Parris Island SC June 19, 1957
Same sad sacks..Edmundson, Montgomery, King, Masoud, Fox
Bob Ed still smiling.
Clifford Houser Gordon Clayton Martha Scott Caldwell
Another view of Miss Hornbeak's first grade class in 1945-46.
See names under the pix at the top of the page.
Mrs. Maxwell's second grade class at Central. Includes from top left J. G. Clayton, Bobby Hubbs, Charles Mitchell, Bobby Nipp, Bobby Patterson, Dale Locke, Rex Bushong, Dean Qualls, Ronnie Masoud, Margaret Colville, Kitty Nipp, Arthur Thompson, Carolyn Hawks, Gene Virgin, Richard Ames, Lynn Swindle, Jimmy Henderson, Carolyn Cultra, Peggy Pinion, Martha Caldwell, Betty Beauchamp, Lindel Forester. All but Henderson. Mitchell, and Patterson were still in the class in the 7th grade.
Three views of same 5th grade class of Mrs. Phillips.-Evidently prior to wide angle lenses
Martha Jane and Larry Bolding at Jr-Sr. Banquet.
Still together!
Betty Beauchamp and Carolyn Cultra
Carolyn Lavonne Gardner and Joe Griffith
Dalton Stover and Rose Alice
Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Miller, Miss Billie Caldwell, Mrs. Newton
Class of 57 girls week before graduation at Sandra Posey's.
Ed Phipps, Senior Homeroom sponsor, Clifford Houser, Ronnie Masoud, Hunter Mountjoy preparing for the Senior Play
We played this game at Turner Field to help raise money for the new football field near the high school.
From this group those now deceased include Bob Arnn, Forest Gray,Joe Owens, Donald Bishop, Jimmy Daniels, and Jimmy Zimmerman.
The Strata Club burned and the school stopped sponsoring these off campus in about 1961.
The Sailorettes had a part in the 1954 Centennial program.
