Nan Barfield ('55), Thomas Lindsay ('56), Kenny Schonfeld ('59), and Barbara Fowler ('55).

Our thanks to Thelma Spade Roberts ('57) of VA for helping to identify her schoolmates!

Our thanks to Thelma Spade Roberts ('57) of VA for helping to identify her schoolmates!

Front: Betsy Roberts ('56), Phil Collins ('57), Evelyn Thomas ('58), Barbara Johnson ('57), Evelyn Casey ('57) and Evelyn Fryer ('58), with Ann Bradshaw ('56) and Nancy Bigger ('56) at front right corner. 

Back row: Kenny Roberts ('58), Glenda Howard ('59), Shelva Daniels ('59?), Jim Hunsucker ('56) and Thelma Roberts ('57).

Our thanks to Thelma Spade Roberts ('57) of VA for identifying her schoolmates!

Second  table: Judy Leggette ('56), P.A. Breeden ('56), Betsy Roberts ('56), Gaye Hogge ('56),
and Annette Will ('56).

Third table: Slade Dunn ('56) and
Carolyn Simpson ('56).

Back row: Jimmy Morgan ('56), Nancy Hawley ('56),  Teddy Farrar ('56), Judy Slavin ('56), Stuart Greenspon ('56), Adrienne Nettles ('56), Howard Todd ('56), Dennis Ilish ('56),  Celia Siegel ('56), and Bucky Lenhart ('56).

Our thanks to Joe Madagan ('57) of FL and Thelma Spade Roberts ('57) of VA for helping to identify their schoolmates!

? ('59), Joanne Welstead? ('59), Jerry Morewitz ('59), Robert Bracey ('59), Jimmy Spivey ('59), and Bonnie Proctor ('59).

Our thanks to Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky ('59) of NC for helping to identify her classmates!

FRONT TABLE:
?, Patty Sykes ('62), Jimmy Moody ('61), Lanny Midkiff ('61), Connie McKinsey ('62), Phillip Hammond ('65) and Jane Monfalcone ('61)

BACK LEFT TABLE:
Wanda Thornhill ('62), Betsy Barnhouse ('62),
Mary Jo Cain ('62), three girls I cannot see
well enough to identify...

BACK RIGHT TABLE:
Robert Fitzgerald ('63)

The building has sadly
long since been razed.

The first would have had to have been following one of the first football games of the '62 to '63 school year,
when I was a sophomore.  I was wearing my Band letter sweater (which I still own, and which joyously after lo,
these many blubber-coated years actually fits again!) and the matching deep navy blue wool  A-line skirt
which my dear mama made me.  (Yes, Jimmy - I nearly ALWAYS remember what I was wearing on State Occasions!)
I'll hoard the details unto myself; suffice to say it was one of the best dances I ever attended in my life,
and I emerged with a new-found sense of self-esteem!

The other incident probably only remains in my mind because of the tragic outcome which was so shortly to follow it.
One typical day after school during my senior year, several of us including Larry Harding ('65), were in the "Y" after school.
We were huddled over the juke box, trying in vain to make out the lyrics to "Louie, Louie" (I started to link the lyrics here, but then I Googled them,
and nearly keeled over at what I found, so you're on your own!), and giggling like the naughty children we were - and we never could determine those words, due (no doubt) in large part to the fact that we couldn't stop laughing long enough!  We finally gave up and went back to our table
to finish our food, when Larry suddenly banged his fists on the table and shouted, "All Hands on Deck!"  Having been thus commanded,
we all dutifully obeyed.  Then Larry turned to the pretty girl to his right and innocently asked, "Is your name Deck?"  He was SOOOO funny!!!

A mere three days after graduation, Larry drowned.  That was 39 years ago this week.
 I shall never forget him, or his wonderful, wacky sense of humor, and his gift for making people laugh.

- Carol Buckley Harty ('65) of NC - 06/04/04