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Trezevant High School, Trezevant, Tennessee - 1960 |
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Class of 1963
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Trezevant High School, Trezevant, Tennessee is the school
I graduated from in May, 1963. I came to Trezevant for high school
after finishing the eighth grade at Lavinia. We
had two groups within the school - those who had gone all the way from
first grade to high school in Trezevant and those of us who came from the
"country" schools at Lavinia, Westview and
McLemoresville. (Considering that Trezevant isn't much more than a wide place in
the road, "country" is a relative term!)
To be quite honest, I don't remember a lot about high school because my life
began anew the day I got off an airplane at San Antonio, Texas and walked into the arms of a United
States Air Force training instructor, or "TI" as they are
called. The world had taken me far from Carroll County, West Tennessee and I was
going to go much further.
But there are some things I do remember - such as the
senior play when Billy McKee and I wore mustaches and wooed Betty
Hollowell and Judy Rimmer. Billy is no longer with us - he died of cancer a few
years ago after spending a lifetime serving
his country as a Navy SEAL and a DEA Agent. I also remember sitting on the
bleachers in the gym with various of my
friends - Douglas McAlexander, my cousin Conrad Spain, Johnny Jones, Edwin
Miller, Sammy Holland, Billy and Tony
McKee, Randall Chandler and Randall Smith. We talked about a lot of things, but
mostly what we were going to do when
we got out of school. My mind was already made up - I was going to the Air Force
Academy and fly jets. (As things
turned out, I didn't go to the Air Force Academy - my son, however, graduated
from Annapolis, Class of 1998 - but I did
go into the Air Force and I have spent a good part of my adult life flying jets.
I realized just how far THS was behind me one
day in the fall of 1966 on the island of Okinawa when I walked into the chow
hall and saw a young Airman Third Class
with "McMackins" on his nametag. I recognized him as Ronnie McMackins, who had
graduated a year ahead of me and
who had been a BMOC. But he looked just like any other scared airmen and after
flying a combat tour over North
Vietnam and Laos, I felt so much OLDER than him!
But my years at THS were good ones and we had some good
people, even though I might not have thought so at the time.
We had great teachers - Mrs. Blanks, Miss Simmons, Mr. Cross - and they
instilled values in us that are still present
in the THS people I have run into in more recent years.
Class of 1963
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