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Antoine, Marie  (History)
5615 Diane Dr.
Mobile, AL 36618
Ballard, Worlie  (Athletics)
5527 Mobile Avenue
Orange Beach, AL 36561
251-981-5276   
Black, Lloyd  (History)
3801 Ching Dairy Loop Rd., N.
Mobile, AL 36618
Spouse: Etta
Chavers, Opal (????)
Address Needed
Lane, Mrs. Joan (Havard)  (Bookkeeping, Business Math, Law)
479 Pine Court
Mobile, AL 36608
(251)344-2662
Email: jhl0903@aol.com
Hickey, Vivian  (PE)
1205 Baylor Dr.
Mobile, AL 36618
Killian, Frank   (Science)
3751 Heritage Dr.
Mobile, AL 36609
Lois B. Lewis (????)
4304 Regulus Dr.
Mobile, AL
Mallette, Sam   (Athletics)
212 W. Baratara Dr.
Chickasaw, AL 36611
Martin, Nina Dr.  (English, Librarian, Wolfettes' Sponsor, ???)
12217 Cherry Valley Rd.  (
Attended Reunion)
Moss Point, MS 39562 
251- 865-9416
Email:
Evillewoman32@wmconnect.com
Paulk, Louise   (Business)
101 Eight Ave.
Chickasaw, AL 35511
Rotch, Maxine   (Business)
8941 Fairhope Ave.  (
Attended Reunion)
Fairhope, AL  36532
Simmons, Alvin T.  (????)
2773 Grafhill Dr.N.
Mobile, AL  36607
Waldrip, Helen  (Spanish)
Address Needed
White, Ed  (POD)
1021 W. Woodside Dr. (
Attended Reunion)
Mobile, AL 36608
Yancey, Glen  (Athletics)
469 Country Road 39 
Clanton, AL 35046
Phone 205 755-1190 
(Attended Reunion)

The following message was given at our 45th Reunion Banquet by Joan Davis Crawford.

"It doesn’t seem that long ago that I stood before you to give the valedictory address.  As we all know it was, in fact, 45 years ago on a very hot, rainy night in Vigor auditorium.  I have  the speech here – what I don’t have is the measles which I did have then!

What a group we were – young, ready to conquer the world.  We knew it all.  It only took a short time to realize how little we knew – that our life’s journey had just begun.  Yet, as green as we were, we were not totally unprepared for our next step.  We had been guided, and then pushed out the door by family, friends, and teachers.  Few of us made the effort to say “thank you”.  Tonight we want to rectify that opportunity overlooked.

Teachers, I believe, are some of the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.  Yet, too often they do not know if the seed which was planted in young impressionable minds will grow into responsible reality. Lots of people think teaching is easy: a nine-month 8 to 3 job with good benefits.  But teaching is a scary profession.  When I think that as a teacher I am helping young people to mature, to understand the world and to understand themselves, it is very sobering.  Our teachers knew this and yet continued to take us on.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.  And satisfy it we did.  We became engineers, businessmen, airline pilots, housewives, military personnel, and teachers to name a few.  We did not have all the Advanced Placement classes in calculus, macroeconomics, anatomy or European history.  Yet we learned that a good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.  We learned that knowledge is not simply another commodity but increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.  The facts learned in Mrs. Lloyd’s, Mr. Funderburk’s and Mrs. Green’s science classes, Mr. Denson’s, Mrs. Butler’s and Mrs. Thompson’s math classes, Mrs. Antoine’s, Mr. Black’s and Mr. White’s social studies classes trained us to deal with the obstacles of life.  We had no idea that Miss Paulk, Mrs. Rotch and Miss Havard were giving us more than business skills or that Mrs. Waldrip and Mrs. Pratt weren’t just preparing us to speak Spanish or Latin.  What good was reading from all those dead poets and playwrights in Mrs. Martin’s, Miss Fagan’s and Mrs. Gilbert’s room?  Yet, we took all of those skills – known and unknown – and went out to face the world.  And we didn’t say “thank you”.

So, how do we begin to put these omissions right?  We really can’t.  But we can think back to those people who helped mold our futures and remember the struggles, triumphs – happiness and pain – good times and bad – that we had together. We can say thank you to Dr. White, Mrs. Rotch, Coach Yancey  and Dr. Martin  who are here with us, and fondly remember those teachers who are not.  You helped make us what we are.  A wise man has said that a teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  Yours has not stopped.  Thank you." Joan Davis Crawford.


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