May 11, 2018 Coats Museum News
Paul Dickson recorded in his From Elvis to E-Mail that on August 02, 1970 that the first known racial intermarriage in Mississippi took place. On September 06, 1970, four commercial jetliners were hijacked by Arab commandos and three of the planes landed in Arab nations but the fourth one landed in London after security guards killed one hijacker and wounded another. On September 22nd of that month, Richard Nixon signed legislation authorizing a nonvoting delegate from the District of Columbia to the U.S. House of Representatives. The District had not been represented in Congress since 1875. Six days later President Nasser of Egypt died of a heart attack. No-there was no connection between those two events.
In the Coats area it was recorded that Miss Dianne Christine Broadwell had exchanged vows with Ronald Roy Penny on Sunday, August 30 at the Angier Methodist Church. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Japert Broadwell, and the groom was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Penny, Jr., of rural Coats (Daily Record Aug. 31, 1970).
August had come to a close, and it was time for schools to open for the 1970-71 term. At Coats High School, the seniors had picked Kent Hudson as editor of the 1971 Echoing Memories and Debbie Jo Lee as business manager with H.L. Sorrell, Jr. as yearbook advisor.
Those students helping Kent as his staff were Ginger Dupree, Debby Pollard, Jan Ennis, Paulette Johnson, Gloria Ogburn, Timmy Pollard, Keith Wood, Joy Weaver, Baxter Ennis, Keith Parrish, Jerry Gardner, Danny Pollard, Jimmy Grimes, Cathy Mitchell, Teresa Langdon, Rhonda Denning, Mike Ennis and Dwight Parrish.
Those students assisting Debbie Jo Lee on the business staff were Randy Suggs, Randy Stephenson, Greg Stevens, Lois Pope, Deborah Ennis, Gail Stewart, Bonnie Norris, Janie Horton, Brookie Neighbors and Tim Penny.
Senior class events had to happen for them to be recorded in the Echoing Memories. One of the first points of business was to elect the class superlatives. The seniors chose Tim Penny and Debby Pollard as “Best All Around”, Mike Godwin and Jan Ennis as “Beau and Belle”, Terry Abney and Wanda Ennis as “Neatest”, Randy Stephenson and Debbie Jo Lee as “Most Likely to Succeed”. “The Wittiest” went to Tim Pollard and Brenda Poole while the “Friendliest” were Danny Pollard and Janie Horton. Keith Wood and Cathy Norris Mitchell were voted “Most Courteous” and Jerry Gardner and Gloria Ogburn were the “Most Dependable”. The “Cutest” pair was Teresa Langdon and Mike Ennis and the “Most Original” pair was Dudley Langdon and LaRue Williams. Wayne Matthews and Debbie Ennis scored as the “Most Athletic” in the class.
Who was the “Most School Spirited”? Greg Stevens and Marie Williams won that spot. Paulette Johnson and Keith Parrish were “Best Sports” while Rick Robinson and Lou Stewart were the “Most Talented”. Seniors of 1971, do you remember for whom you voted to be the “Most Intellectual”? The yearbook recorded that Kent Hudson and Joy Weaver were the “Most Intellectual”. “Mr. and Mrs. Echoing Memories” went to Baxter Ennis and Rhonda Denning.
I have a question for you as readers. Do you recognize any of those names? So many of those students went away to college and military and several of them chose to return to the Coats area to work or to commute to jobs in distant towns. Many who did not stay here have done well in jobs on the state and national scene making Coats so proud of those graduates.
As I look at those names, I can see each of those faces as teenagers sitting in or standing before my classroom reciting Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” or giving their speeches, or discussing Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Old Henry’s Gift of the Magi, Jack London’s Call of the Wild. The demands I made upon those students to challenge every fiber in their being was surely pure torture to them.
My husband and I discuss dreams that we have and almost every week, we have dreams about our days of teaching young students. Many times in our dreams we seem unable to find our classrooms and often times the kids are completely out of control and we comment after sharing a dream if maybe we are being punished for the great expectations that we demanded of those young students.
This I do know. We were not alone in giving to students or wanting from them the best that they could do. Many hours were given to students by other teachers to develop survival and leadership skills not taught in a textbook. For example, FFA and FHA are two organizations that can never be given enough accolades for the impact that they had on students. Coy Broadwell, Billy West and Faye Etheridge were advisors to those organizations at Coats High and they represented all that is good about being a good citizen and leader. In 1970-71, Coy Broadwell had Dudley Langdon, Douglas Pope, Stephen Walker, Gary Denton, Keith Stewart, and Ronnie Hargis as officers of FFA. Mrs. Faye Etheridge advised Debbie Ennis, Linda Tart, Donna Penny, Paulette Johnson, Debbie Lee, Debbie Honeycutt, Sue Ogburn, Carolyn Holmes and Vicki Faircloth in FHA. In 1970-71, Kent Hudson was FHA Beau and Paulette Johnson was FFA Sweetheart.
Marie Salmon is a name that is mentioned so often in our Coats Museum. The students have never forgotten the hours she spent with her Library and Photography Clubs where she taught them about organization and the appreciation of beauty through the pages of a book or the lens on a camera. Sports also developed leadership as it is recorded that Allie Bryant (Halfback) was All Conference and Donald Sanders (Guard) All Conference. Debbie Pollard was Homecoming Queen and was escorted by Keith Parrish while Gloria Dennis was her Maid of Honor (Coats High School Echoing Memories 1971).
The Daily Record, September 2, 1970 issue reported that Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Faircloth had announced the birth of a son, Bryan Troy, on August 27th. Mr. Faircloth was a Coats graduate and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Faircloth. He was employed at the US Post Office at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. His wife Sheere was a native of Utah.
A Coats soldier, 1st Sgt. Albert L. Johnson, 42, was killed in Vietnam on August 26th. His mother was Mrs. Alonzo L. Johnson, who survived him. Albert’s father had died earlier that year (Daily Record Sept. 4, 1970).
Who knows Connie Mack Tart? I do know that he had reason to be under doctor’s care in the BJMH (Daily Record Sept. 4, 1970).
The Harnett County Young Democratic officers were Larry Denning-president, and Mrs. Joy Coats-first vice president (Daily Record Sept. 8, 1970).
Woodrow Turlington had died in Sylva while visiting relatives (Daily Record Sept. 10, 1970).Was he connected to the Turlingtons of Coats and Turlington Crossroads? I do know that several of the volunteers at the Coats Museum were saddened to read about the death of Mack Ray Turlington in Fayetteville. Roy Tart and Mack Ray visited the Coats Museum a few times and they were a delight to watch as they reminisced on Mack’s days on the football fields at Dunn High and UNC Chapel Hill. Roy can tell you play by plays made by Mack at UNC. Mack Ray left Coats after his freshman year to the disappointment of many Coats sports followers.
As people get older, they do not always make a big issue of birthdays. At our house, we get excited because we know that our children will remember us with a donation to the Coats Museum Endowment. Thank you goes to Lenee and J.B. Smith for remembering H.L. with a birthday endowment gift. Some donors find ways to show their friendship by giving memorials to honor deceased parents of a friend. Cecil and Beverly Stephenson have honored the memory of Hazel Pope Tart, Mother of their close friend, Joe Tart. Thank you –Cecil and Beverly. Thank you also goes to H.L. Sorrell for his endowment memorial donation for his childhood neighbor, Betty Bowling Gregory, and for Becky Adams on her celebration of another birthday. These monetary gifts help us preserve and share the history of the Coats community in the museum.
Paul Dickson recorded in his From Elvis to E-Mail that on August 02, 1970 that the first known racial intermarriage in Mississippi took place. On September 06, 1970, four commercial jetliners were hijacked by Arab commandos and three of the planes landed in Arab nations but the fourth one landed in London after security guards killed one hijacker and wounded another. On September 22nd of that month, Richard Nixon signed legislation authorizing a nonvoting delegate from the District of Columbia to the U.S. House of Representatives. The District had not been represented in Congress since 1875. Six days later President Nasser of Egypt died of a heart attack. No-there was no connection between those two events.
In the Coats area it was recorded that Miss Dianne Christine Broadwell had exchanged vows with Ronald Roy Penny on Sunday, August 30 at the Angier Methodist Church. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Japert Broadwell, and the groom was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Penny, Jr., of rural Coats (Daily Record Aug. 31, 1970).
August had come to a close, and it was time for schools to open for the 1970-71 term. At Coats High School, the seniors had picked Kent Hudson as editor of the 1971 Echoing Memories and Debbie Jo Lee as business manager with H.L. Sorrell, Jr. as yearbook advisor.
Those students helping Kent as his staff were Ginger Dupree, Debby Pollard, Jan Ennis, Paulette Johnson, Gloria Ogburn, Timmy Pollard, Keith Wood, Joy Weaver, Baxter Ennis, Keith Parrish, Jerry Gardner, Danny Pollard, Jimmy Grimes, Cathy Mitchell, Teresa Langdon, Rhonda Denning, Mike Ennis and Dwight Parrish.
Those students assisting Debbie Jo Lee on the business staff were Randy Suggs, Randy Stephenson, Greg Stevens, Lois Pope, Deborah Ennis, Gail Stewart, Bonnie Norris, Janie Horton, Brookie Neighbors and Tim Penny.
Senior class events had to happen for them to be recorded in the Echoing Memories. One of the first points of business was to elect the class superlatives. The seniors chose Tim Penny and Debby Pollard as “Best All Around”, Mike Godwin and Jan Ennis as “Beau and Belle”, Terry Abney and Wanda Ennis as “Neatest”, Randy Stephenson and Debbie Jo Lee as “Most Likely to Succeed”. “The Wittiest” went to Tim Pollard and Brenda Poole while the “Friendliest” were Danny Pollard and Janie Horton. Keith Wood and Cathy Norris Mitchell were voted “Most Courteous” and Jerry Gardner and Gloria Ogburn were the “Most Dependable”. The “Cutest” pair was Teresa Langdon and Mike Ennis and the “Most Original” pair was Dudley Langdon and LaRue Williams. Wayne Matthews and Debbie Ennis scored as the “Most Athletic” in the class.
Who was the “Most School Spirited”? Greg Stevens and Marie Williams won that spot. Paulette Johnson and Keith Parrish were “Best Sports” while Rick Robinson and Lou Stewart were the “Most Talented”. Seniors of 1971, do you remember for whom you voted to be the “Most Intellectual”? The yearbook recorded that Kent Hudson and Joy Weaver were the “Most Intellectual”. “Mr. and Mrs. Echoing Memories” went to Baxter Ennis and Rhonda Denning.
I have a question for you as readers. Do you recognize any of those names? So many of those students went away to college and military and several of them chose to return to the Coats area to work or to commute to jobs in distant towns. Many who did not stay here have done well in jobs on the state and national scene making Coats so proud of those graduates.
As I look at those names, I can see each of those faces as teenagers sitting in or standing before my classroom reciting Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” or giving their speeches, or discussing Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Old Henry’s Gift of the Magi, Jack London’s Call of the Wild. The demands I made upon those students to challenge every fiber in their being was surely pure torture to them.
My husband and I discuss dreams that we have and almost every week, we have dreams about our days of teaching young students. Many times in our dreams we seem unable to find our classrooms and often times the kids are completely out of control and we comment after sharing a dream if maybe we are being punished for the great expectations that we demanded of those young students.
This I do know. We were not alone in giving to students or wanting from them the best that they could do. Many hours were given to students by other teachers to develop survival and leadership skills not taught in a textbook. For example, FFA and FHA are two organizations that can never be given enough accolades for the impact that they had on students. Coy Broadwell, Billy West and Faye Etheridge were advisors to those organizations at Coats High and they represented all that is good about being a good citizen and leader. In 1970-71, Coy Broadwell had Dudley Langdon, Douglas Pope, Stephen Walker, Gary Denton, Keith Stewart, and Ronnie Hargis as officers of FFA. Mrs. Faye Etheridge advised Debbie Ennis, Linda Tart, Donna Penny, Paulette Johnson, Debbie Lee, Debbie Honeycutt, Sue Ogburn, Carolyn Holmes and Vicki Faircloth in FHA. In 1970-71, Kent Hudson was FHA Beau and Paulette Johnson was FFA Sweetheart.
Marie Salmon is a name that is mentioned so often in our Coats Museum. The students have never forgotten the hours she spent with her Library and Photography Clubs where she taught them about organization and the appreciation of beauty through the pages of a book or the lens on a camera. Sports also developed leadership as it is recorded that Allie Bryant (Halfback) was All Conference and Donald Sanders (Guard) All Conference. Debbie Pollard was Homecoming Queen and was escorted by Keith Parrish while Gloria Dennis was her Maid of Honor (Coats High School Echoing Memories 1971).
The Daily Record, September 2, 1970 issue reported that Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Faircloth had announced the birth of a son, Bryan Troy, on August 27th. Mr. Faircloth was a Coats graduate and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Faircloth. He was employed at the US Post Office at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. His wife Sheere was a native of Utah.
A Coats soldier, 1st Sgt. Albert L. Johnson, 42, was killed in Vietnam on August 26th. His mother was Mrs. Alonzo L. Johnson, who survived him. Albert’s father had died earlier that year (Daily Record Sept. 4, 1970).
Who knows Connie Mack Tart? I do know that he had reason to be under doctor’s care in the BJMH (Daily Record Sept. 4, 1970).
The Harnett County Young Democratic officers were Larry Denning-president, and Mrs. Joy Coats-first vice president (Daily Record Sept. 8, 1970).
Woodrow Turlington had died in Sylva while visiting relatives (Daily Record Sept. 10, 1970).Was he connected to the Turlingtons of Coats and Turlington Crossroads? I do know that several of the volunteers at the Coats Museum were saddened to read about the death of Mack Ray Turlington in Fayetteville. Roy Tart and Mack Ray visited the Coats Museum a few times and they were a delight to watch as they reminisced on Mack’s days on the football fields at Dunn High and UNC Chapel Hill. Roy can tell you play by plays made by Mack at UNC. Mack Ray left Coats after his freshman year to the disappointment of many Coats sports followers.
As people get older, they do not always make a big issue of birthdays. At our house, we get excited because we know that our children will remember us with a donation to the Coats Museum Endowment. Thank you goes to Lenee and J.B. Smith for remembering H.L. with a birthday endowment gift. Some donors find ways to show their friendship by giving memorials to honor deceased parents of a friend. Cecil and Beverly Stephenson have honored the memory of Hazel Pope Tart, Mother of their close friend, Joe Tart. Thank you –Cecil and Beverly. Thank you also goes to H.L. Sorrell for his endowment memorial donation for his childhood neighbor, Betty Bowling Gregory, and for Becky Adams on her celebration of another birthday. These monetary gifts help us preserve and share the history of the Coats community in the museum.