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80 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 22, 1944 Miss Wylene Shaw and Miss Martha Louise Tierce of NWJC will come home Friday to spend the holidays with their families. Funeral services were held at the Bryant home Monday afternoon for Mrs. Clara Carr Bryant. 75 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 15, 1949 According to announcement made last week at Tulane University, New Orleans, Hershel Saucier has been elected as a member of ” Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges”. Bert Scobey, Jr., a sophomore at Ole Miss, is in Memphis this week for treatment of a badly lacerated hand, the result of a test tube explosion in the science laboratory at school. 70 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 23, 1954 Miss Marie Simpson has recently been elected Queen of the Veterans Club at NWJC, where she is a freshman. Among those home from the various colleges for the holidays are Nancy Stone and Ralph L. Peeples of Ole Miss; Lucretia Majure, Blue Mountain; Jean Breedlove, Shirley Vickery and Richard McCormack, Delta State; Sister Pittman, Chetty Pate and Martha Ann Walker, MSCW; Eugene Shaw, Joe Duke, Clarence York, Francis Vickery, James Lowe, George Harrison, Jimmy Hollowell, Kay French, Marie Simpson, and Sue Clark, NWJC; Bobby Ray Shaw, Carl Brandon, Earl Gibson, Thomas Dawkins, and John Ewell Kimbrough, State College; and Barbara Branum, Memphis Art School. 65 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 24, 1959 Students, soldiers and others arrive to gladden the homes of their parents and friends. From Fort Jackson, S. C. are Isaac Williams, David Dale French, David Gray and Johnny Rowsey; Charles Jones from El Paso, Texas; Donna Bailey, Betty Bryant, Bill Morgan and Morris Holloway from Ole Miss; James and Shirley Edwards, Buddy Pate, Dale Thornton, Thomas Dawkins and James and Sister Lowe from State College; Deeby Peeples from Riverside Military Academy in Georgia; Ralph Lawrence Peeples from Alexandria, VA, J. Russell Bailey from New York; Vera Edwards and Terry Denley from MSCW; Vernell Edwards from Senatobia; Tommy McCormack and Christine Breedlove from Delta State College; Margaret and Edward Woodall from Milsaps College; Lura Wortham, Rosemary Helm, Betsy McCormack, George Ayers, David Martin and Garland Denley, Jr., from NWJC; John Stone from Spence Air Base in Moutie, Ga.; and Roy Vickery and Ida Mae Denley from Clark College. 55 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 25, 1969 The heart of the community is throbbing with a peculiar joy, the Christmas Spirit has been spread and intensified, the very air is permeated with glad, good cheer- all because our young people, all the dozens of them who have been away for months, are home for the holidays. They are Wayne Jones from Miss. State and Marilyn Jones from State College, Lou McCormack from Hot Springs and her husband, Jesse Bergeron, along with Greg McCormack from Ole Miss and Carnes McCormack, Linda Bagguley, Tommy Wright, Pam Pate, Beverly and Buck Madison, David Jones Ronnie Bailey, Gary Shaw, Hobson Beeman, William Earl Hooper, Barbara Chandler, Veeneena Frith, Edward Pipkin and Jo Adams from NWJC; Susan Stevens, Mary Ann Chapman, Mike Jones, Kay Dorris, Roger Green, Beverly Brewer, Mike and Martha McKee, Donnie Adams, Robert Criss, Delores Beeman, Hilly Griffin and David and Eugene Arrington, Jan Dean Arrington, Sue Shaw, Patsy George, Sandra Snell and Ellen Gray of MSCW: Vinginia Arrington, Jerry Tindall, Steve Brower, from State College; Julia Shaw Green, and her husband, Brenda Parker, Bobby Laster and Carolyn Laster, all of Delta State; Diane Kilgore of Miss. College; Jimmy and Avis Martin of New Oreleans Seminary; Hubert and Nancy Clark of Auburn University; Darlene Waldo Cooper, Johnny Parker, Jan Kilgore, David Kilgore and Libby Lowe of Delta State; Owen Riddick from Milsaps; Vicki Parker from Jackson; Brenda Adams from LSU; Sandra Hammack from Memphis; Nancy LaCook from Galveston, Texas; Jimmy Denley from Fort Polk, La., Mike Thorton from Fort Sill, Okla.; Lonnie Williams from Fl. Manmouth, N. J. Morton Gorden from Memphis and perhaps others doing their bit to the season’s gaiety. 40 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 20, 1984 Mrs Doris A. Pace was honored by her coworkers December 13 with a reception all at the Central Office of the Coffeeville School District. Mrs Pace has served the school district for 31 1/2 years and will retire at the end of the current semester. Rev. and Mrs Page Box, Sr. will be honored by their children in their 50th Wedding Anniversary Sunday, December 23, at the Coffeeville United Methodist Church.
