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 |
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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) |
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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! 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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