September 30, 2016 Coats Museum News
The schools in Harnett County were closing out the 1959-60 school year. Prior to their graduation, twenty-nine members of the Coats Senior Class of 1960 had gone to Washington, D.C. via the Luray Caverns and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Who were the seniors of 1960? They had entered school as sixty-five first graders. It would be several years before kindergartners would be on the Coats campus. A memory that the classmates would later recall was their trip to the Planetarium at Chapel Hill. They would later roam the museum in Raleigh as grown up eighth graders. As a talented freshman in 1956, Bobby Pope would win the “Most Valuable Player in the County” on the JV Basketball team which won the county championship. Does anyone in that time era recall how many times the old activity bus broke down on its way to the games? I do know that Gayle Johnson made the” Girls All-County JV Team” and the Coats team came in as runners-up in the county’s basketball Junior Varsity Championship. How many of those girls can put their hands on the little silver basketball that was awarded to them for being county runners-up?
The Tropicana Village was the theme of their Junior-Senior Prom. Do they remember that the punch was served from an erupting volcano having dry ice to give quite an effect? Their senior year was when Joe C. Hawley replaced R. Hal Smith as principal. The year would be filled with numerous activities that are reminiscent of all senior classes. They selected the class rings with a blue stone with a gold “C”; chose blue and gold as their class colors and the blue carnation as the class flower.
The Echoing Memories staff consisted of Carolyn Phillips as editor and Ann Beasley as business manager. Carolyn had on her team Janice Barnes, Jimmy Jones, Judy Williams, Sylvia Langdon, Carol Mason, Rebecca Honeycutt, and Ted Malone. Ann headed up her business staff with Eloise Johnson, Carol Pope McGee, Rumel Taylor, Mary Carol Parker, Jone Godwin, and Rebecca Honeycutt.
The class members voted in Jimmy Jones, senior president; Rumel Taylor, vice-president; Judy Williams, secretary; and Ann Beasley and Doris Lee as co-treasurers. These officers headed up a meeting to select classmates they felt represented certain superlatives to be recorded in the yearbook. The following were voted: Ann Beasley and Bobby Pope- “Best All Around”, Becky Honeycutt and Wayne Stanley-“Most Talented”, Rumel Taylor and Edward Spivey-“Most Popular”, Sylvia Langdon and Jimmy Willis-“Most Intelligent”, Carole Pope McGee and Johnny Tart-“Most Dependable”, Hazelene Baker and Kenneth Penny-“Cutest”, Doris Lee and Barry Faulkner-Friendliest”, Jone Godwin and Jimmy Jones- “Beau and Belle”, Eva Carol Miller and Stacy Williams –“Most Courteous”, Carolyn Phillips and J.D. Norris-“Wittiest”, Gayle Johnson and Hartwell Whittington- “Most Likely to Succeed”, Sue Holder and Harold Barnes-“Most Athletic”, and Judy Williams and Billy Messer-“Neatest”.
Who were the seniors who welcomed in the decade of the sixties? Those graduates were Richard Carroll Altman, Hazelene Baker, Harold Barnes, Ann Beasley, Joyce Beasley, Roland Byrd, Barry Faulkner, Jone Godwin, Cecil Gregory, Betty Sue Holder, Rebecca Honeycutt, Iva Mae Jernigan, Gayle Johnson, Lesley Johnson, Jimmy Jones, Sylvia Langdon, Larry Lawrence, Doris Lee, Carol Mason, Carol Pope McGee, Billy Messer, Eva Carol Miller, Brenda Norris, Florence Norris, J.D. Norris, Jr., Mary Carol Parker, Kenneth Penny, Carolyn Phillips, Ronnie Pollard, Bobby Pope, Charles Regan, Edward Spivey, Carol Stanley, Wayne Stanley, Carol Stone, Peggy Stone, Johnny Tart, Rumel Taylor, Jackie Turlington, Jo Anne Weaver, Wade Weaver, Jr., Hartwell Whittington, Vinson Whittington, Jerry Williams, Judy Williams, Stacy Williams, and James Willis (The Echoing Memories 1960).
Is there anyone in the area who has not heard the name-Rev. Ralph Byrd? I do know that he and his wife entertained Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ray Mann, Betty Ellen Dixon, Susan Hawley, and Mary Ellen Johnson for dinner (Daily Record May 31, 1960).
The local hospitals continued to admit Coats area folks. Mr. Ed Lewis, Mrs. Marjorie Morgan, Mrs. Flora Fowler, and Mr. Rudolph Ennis were at Betsy Johnson and Miss Marilyn Sue Pollard and Sherry Kay Fish were in Good Hope Hospital (Daily Record June1 and June 4, 1960).
How many of you remember Donald McLamb? I think his dad Son McLamb operated a country store up in the Barclaysville area and I believe Donald died very young. When Donald was only seven, this Coats school boy brought in $200.00 for graduating from first and second grades. Some Coats folks were on the road to see friends. Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Beasley had visited Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Jackson of Dunn (Daily Record June 6, 1960).
It seems that hospital stays were the most significant summer events in Coats in 1960 for we read that Mrs. Ann Turner was in Betsy Johnson and Laura Moore and Nettie Holliday were ill in the Good Hope Hospital. Shall we visit some local markets and price some 1960 items for sale. A five-pound bag of sugar was 39 cents; a box of Arrow detergent was 15 cents, and 28-ounce box of corn flakes was only 29 cents (Daily Record June 8, 1960). Could you have carried home change if you had taken a dollar with you to the grocery store? Can you name five items that sell for less than a dollar today?
I do know that Elaine Byrd had celebrated her sixth birthday with a party according to the June 10, 1960 edition of the Daily Record. She had Carletta Ivey, Elaine Dixon, Sharon Byrd, La Rue Williams, Cathy Powell, Pam, Wanda and La Rue Stephenson, Teresa, Anthony, and Terry Page, Lynwood Thornton, Kent Turlington, Andy Grimes, Mark Powell, Bob House and Jennifer Williams. Miss June Powell and Mrs. Tyrus Powell assisted Mrs. Wilma Byrd with the party. I also know that David Langdon did not attend the party because he and his daddy, Gerald Langdon, were at the baccalaureate services at Wingate College but do you know what connection Gerald and David Langdon have to the Coats Recreational Park?
Mrs. Hoover (Betty) Johnson’s mother, Mrs. Laura Moore, 67, of Route 2, Angier, had died on Thursday. Her services were at Hodges Chapel. Do you know her other children? Did her husband die before her? Another prominent citizen also had died in the area. He was William Milliard (Bill) Pope who was only 64. The farmer had died on Wednesday and his services were held at Gift Primitive Baptist Church in Coats. He was the son of the late John and Frances Wood Pope. He was survived by his wife, Fannie Roberts Pope; three sons-Bobby, Tommy and Edward; seven daughters-Mrs. Martin Davis, Mrs. George Ferrell, Mrs. Henry Wheeler, Mrs. Henry Rhyme, Mrs. Billy Stewart, Mrs. Russell Lamm, and Mrs. Harry Rondini (Daily Record June 16, 1960). Did Mr. Pope have siblings in the Coats area? The same edition of that paper reported that Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Stephenson and Mrs. Dottie Denning were hospital patients. Also there were Mrs. George (Jean) McKinney and her newborn son.
What is the tax rate in Harnett County this year? In 1960, the HCBOC had voted to keep the tax rate at $1.59 and the schools received 96 cents of every dollar (Daily Record June 30, 1960).
Although it was a rainy and dreary day, we had many visitors on Thursday from the time we opened our doors until we were closing at three. Sally Benson came with a friend from San Antonia, TX who had worked with Sally at the Pentagon. A young mother with three of her preschool children visited. Her husband is in the medical school at Campbell University. Then we welcomed three sisters-Gail Regan, Glenda McLeod and Jennifer Flowers –and Glenda’s grandson, Nathan Edwards from Goldsboro, who had a thousand questions as we took them on a tour of both museums. Stewart Akerman, whose mother Christine Parrish was instrumental in the museum startup, dropped in and was followed by Eddie Vaughan who has been such a dependable volunteer and board member for about ten years. It is never dull at the museum.
A special thank you goes to those who have supported the museum this week. Jennifer Flowers and Glenda Flowers McLeod remembered their Aunt Verle Pollard Flowers with memorial donations to the Coats Museum. Two friends of Patsy Avery gave an honorarium to the museum endowment for Patsy’s birthday. The donations to the museum help the volunteers operate the museum, maintain the buildings, lighting and fountain while the donations to the endowment insure the future upkeep of the Coats Museum. A special thanks to all who are a part of this venture to have a place that people are proud to show off the town’s heritage to their family and friends.
The schools in Harnett County were closing out the 1959-60 school year. Prior to their graduation, twenty-nine members of the Coats Senior Class of 1960 had gone to Washington, D.C. via the Luray Caverns and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Who were the seniors of 1960? They had entered school as sixty-five first graders. It would be several years before kindergartners would be on the Coats campus. A memory that the classmates would later recall was their trip to the Planetarium at Chapel Hill. They would later roam the museum in Raleigh as grown up eighth graders. As a talented freshman in 1956, Bobby Pope would win the “Most Valuable Player in the County” on the JV Basketball team which won the county championship. Does anyone in that time era recall how many times the old activity bus broke down on its way to the games? I do know that Gayle Johnson made the” Girls All-County JV Team” and the Coats team came in as runners-up in the county’s basketball Junior Varsity Championship. How many of those girls can put their hands on the little silver basketball that was awarded to them for being county runners-up?
The Tropicana Village was the theme of their Junior-Senior Prom. Do they remember that the punch was served from an erupting volcano having dry ice to give quite an effect? Their senior year was when Joe C. Hawley replaced R. Hal Smith as principal. The year would be filled with numerous activities that are reminiscent of all senior classes. They selected the class rings with a blue stone with a gold “C”; chose blue and gold as their class colors and the blue carnation as the class flower.
The Echoing Memories staff consisted of Carolyn Phillips as editor and Ann Beasley as business manager. Carolyn had on her team Janice Barnes, Jimmy Jones, Judy Williams, Sylvia Langdon, Carol Mason, Rebecca Honeycutt, and Ted Malone. Ann headed up her business staff with Eloise Johnson, Carol Pope McGee, Rumel Taylor, Mary Carol Parker, Jone Godwin, and Rebecca Honeycutt.
The class members voted in Jimmy Jones, senior president; Rumel Taylor, vice-president; Judy Williams, secretary; and Ann Beasley and Doris Lee as co-treasurers. These officers headed up a meeting to select classmates they felt represented certain superlatives to be recorded in the yearbook. The following were voted: Ann Beasley and Bobby Pope- “Best All Around”, Becky Honeycutt and Wayne Stanley-“Most Talented”, Rumel Taylor and Edward Spivey-“Most Popular”, Sylvia Langdon and Jimmy Willis-“Most Intelligent”, Carole Pope McGee and Johnny Tart-“Most Dependable”, Hazelene Baker and Kenneth Penny-“Cutest”, Doris Lee and Barry Faulkner-Friendliest”, Jone Godwin and Jimmy Jones- “Beau and Belle”, Eva Carol Miller and Stacy Williams –“Most Courteous”, Carolyn Phillips and J.D. Norris-“Wittiest”, Gayle Johnson and Hartwell Whittington- “Most Likely to Succeed”, Sue Holder and Harold Barnes-“Most Athletic”, and Judy Williams and Billy Messer-“Neatest”.
Who were the seniors who welcomed in the decade of the sixties? Those graduates were Richard Carroll Altman, Hazelene Baker, Harold Barnes, Ann Beasley, Joyce Beasley, Roland Byrd, Barry Faulkner, Jone Godwin, Cecil Gregory, Betty Sue Holder, Rebecca Honeycutt, Iva Mae Jernigan, Gayle Johnson, Lesley Johnson, Jimmy Jones, Sylvia Langdon, Larry Lawrence, Doris Lee, Carol Mason, Carol Pope McGee, Billy Messer, Eva Carol Miller, Brenda Norris, Florence Norris, J.D. Norris, Jr., Mary Carol Parker, Kenneth Penny, Carolyn Phillips, Ronnie Pollard, Bobby Pope, Charles Regan, Edward Spivey, Carol Stanley, Wayne Stanley, Carol Stone, Peggy Stone, Johnny Tart, Rumel Taylor, Jackie Turlington, Jo Anne Weaver, Wade Weaver, Jr., Hartwell Whittington, Vinson Whittington, Jerry Williams, Judy Williams, Stacy Williams, and James Willis (The Echoing Memories 1960).
Is there anyone in the area who has not heard the name-Rev. Ralph Byrd? I do know that he and his wife entertained Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ray Mann, Betty Ellen Dixon, Susan Hawley, and Mary Ellen Johnson for dinner (Daily Record May 31, 1960).
The local hospitals continued to admit Coats area folks. Mr. Ed Lewis, Mrs. Marjorie Morgan, Mrs. Flora Fowler, and Mr. Rudolph Ennis were at Betsy Johnson and Miss Marilyn Sue Pollard and Sherry Kay Fish were in Good Hope Hospital (Daily Record June1 and June 4, 1960).
How many of you remember Donald McLamb? I think his dad Son McLamb operated a country store up in the Barclaysville area and I believe Donald died very young. When Donald was only seven, this Coats school boy brought in $200.00 for graduating from first and second grades. Some Coats folks were on the road to see friends. Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Beasley had visited Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Jackson of Dunn (Daily Record June 6, 1960).
It seems that hospital stays were the most significant summer events in Coats in 1960 for we read that Mrs. Ann Turner was in Betsy Johnson and Laura Moore and Nettie Holliday were ill in the Good Hope Hospital. Shall we visit some local markets and price some 1960 items for sale. A five-pound bag of sugar was 39 cents; a box of Arrow detergent was 15 cents, and 28-ounce box of corn flakes was only 29 cents (Daily Record June 8, 1960). Could you have carried home change if you had taken a dollar with you to the grocery store? Can you name five items that sell for less than a dollar today?
I do know that Elaine Byrd had celebrated her sixth birthday with a party according to the June 10, 1960 edition of the Daily Record. She had Carletta Ivey, Elaine Dixon, Sharon Byrd, La Rue Williams, Cathy Powell, Pam, Wanda and La Rue Stephenson, Teresa, Anthony, and Terry Page, Lynwood Thornton, Kent Turlington, Andy Grimes, Mark Powell, Bob House and Jennifer Williams. Miss June Powell and Mrs. Tyrus Powell assisted Mrs. Wilma Byrd with the party. I also know that David Langdon did not attend the party because he and his daddy, Gerald Langdon, were at the baccalaureate services at Wingate College but do you know what connection Gerald and David Langdon have to the Coats Recreational Park?
Mrs. Hoover (Betty) Johnson’s mother, Mrs. Laura Moore, 67, of Route 2, Angier, had died on Thursday. Her services were at Hodges Chapel. Do you know her other children? Did her husband die before her? Another prominent citizen also had died in the area. He was William Milliard (Bill) Pope who was only 64. The farmer had died on Wednesday and his services were held at Gift Primitive Baptist Church in Coats. He was the son of the late John and Frances Wood Pope. He was survived by his wife, Fannie Roberts Pope; three sons-Bobby, Tommy and Edward; seven daughters-Mrs. Martin Davis, Mrs. George Ferrell, Mrs. Henry Wheeler, Mrs. Henry Rhyme, Mrs. Billy Stewart, Mrs. Russell Lamm, and Mrs. Harry Rondini (Daily Record June 16, 1960). Did Mr. Pope have siblings in the Coats area? The same edition of that paper reported that Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Stephenson and Mrs. Dottie Denning were hospital patients. Also there were Mrs. George (Jean) McKinney and her newborn son.
What is the tax rate in Harnett County this year? In 1960, the HCBOC had voted to keep the tax rate at $1.59 and the schools received 96 cents of every dollar (Daily Record June 30, 1960).
Although it was a rainy and dreary day, we had many visitors on Thursday from the time we opened our doors until we were closing at three. Sally Benson came with a friend from San Antonia, TX who had worked with Sally at the Pentagon. A young mother with three of her preschool children visited. Her husband is in the medical school at Campbell University. Then we welcomed three sisters-Gail Regan, Glenda McLeod and Jennifer Flowers –and Glenda’s grandson, Nathan Edwards from Goldsboro, who had a thousand questions as we took them on a tour of both museums. Stewart Akerman, whose mother Christine Parrish was instrumental in the museum startup, dropped in and was followed by Eddie Vaughan who has been such a dependable volunteer and board member for about ten years. It is never dull at the museum.
A special thank you goes to those who have supported the museum this week. Jennifer Flowers and Glenda Flowers McLeod remembered their Aunt Verle Pollard Flowers with memorial donations to the Coats Museum. Two friends of Patsy Avery gave an honorarium to the museum endowment for Patsy’s birthday. The donations to the museum help the volunteers operate the museum, maintain the buildings, lighting and fountain while the donations to the endowment insure the future upkeep of the Coats Museum. A special thanks to all who are a part of this venture to have a place that people are proud to show off the town’s heritage to their family and friends.