IN PARIS, TENNESSEE, SINCE 1866
P. O. Box 310, Paris, TN. 38242-0310
OTHER GROVE CLASSES IN
IN PARIS, TENNESSEE, SINCE 1866
P. O. Box 310, Paris, TN. 38242-0310
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From the February 20, 2008 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
An extensive cold wave over the eastern half of the nation brought blizzard conditions and
at least 223 deaths. In Paris the low temperature reading was 4 below zero to set a new
record. Four inches of snow fell here and ice was thick on all waterways. Pictured on the
ice at Greenacres Lake were Jeanette Williams ('59), Sandra Lee ('58), Norma Pierce ('58),
Joyce Riddick ('58), Diana Cox ('58), Emily Dunlap ('58) and Janice Thompson ('58).
Mittie Ellis ('55), daughter of Mr. ('34) and Mrs. Alex Ellis, was elected recording
secretary of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at the Universaity of Tennessee in Knoxville. She was
a junior home economics student.
From the
February 20, 2008 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
Alberta Herman hosted a Valentine party for some friends at her home on Porter Street.
Winning game prizes were Helener Kane Currier ('39), Eva Lucille Plew and Bernadine Fish
('38). Other guests were Jane ('39) and Kathryn Greer ('38), Nelle Austin Richardson
('39), Margaret Ann Black, Sara Trotter, Betty Jane Fisk ('36), Laura McGehee ('38) and
Doris McCutchan ('39).
Martha Crosswy ('38) also hosted a Valentine party at the home of her parents on North
Poplar Street. Bridge and Rook were enjoyed by Carolyn Clayton ('38), Laura McGehee ('38),
Neal McAbee, Dolly McAlister, Patsy Currier ('37), Emily Jeanette Mandle ('38), Betty Jane
Fisk ('36), Emily Sue Akin ('39), Kathryn Greer ('38), Maudel McFadden, Cara Trevathan
('38), Bernadine Fish ('38) and Virginia ('38) and Sara Orr.
From the February 19, 2008 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
The Grove High School Devilettes and the Buchanan Wildcats were Lake Conference basketball
champions after a tournament in McKenzie. Judy Robison ('59) poured in 23 points as the
Devilettes beat Buchanan 39-28. The Buchanan boys brought a ferocious defense into the
game and Jerry Culpepper scored 17 points as the Wildcats beat Grove.
The Future Farmers of America at Grove High School chose Raymond Van Dyke ('59) as beau
for the year and the Future Homemakers selected Gerry Paschall ('60) as chapter
sweetheart.
From the
February 19, 2008 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
The finals of the annual interclass contest of Grove High School were planned for the
Capitol Theater. After preliminary eliminations, representatives in the speaking contest
would be Douthitt Nanney ('33) and Elizabeth Robertson ('33) of the senior class; Franklin
Goldston ('34) and Iva Lois Patrick ('34), juniors; R.G. Burch ('35) and Elroy Scruggs
('35), sophomores, and Joe Manning ('36) and Christine Seawright ('36), freshmen.
From the February 14, 2008 Edition ~ 25 YEARS AGO
A team of architects said historic Cavitt Hall on the Grove High School campus could be
saved if enough effort and money were available. The building had features that would be
unmatched in a new structure, they said.
From the
February 14, 2008 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
The Grove Blue Devils defeated Huntingdon 60-44 in the last home game of the season,
despite the absence of their captain, Jack Nichols ('58). Stepping in to take top scoring
honors was Beeder Van Dyke ('59) with 21 points.
Two Paris girls were in the cast of the 1958 edition of “Campus Lights,” a
variety show at Murray State College. Rita Humphreys ('55) would be a member of the
dancing chorus and Wanda Jackson ('58) a member of a traditional chorus.
From the
February 14, 2008 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
A band of local young men were in the process of organizing a junior chamber of commerce
here for promoting interests of the city. In the group were R.D. Osteen, Curtis Nichols,
Ben Jobe ('24), Mitchum Warren ('26), Howard Jobe ('19) and Chester Simmons.
Emily Warren ('32), who was a student at Ward-Belmont in Nashville, spent the weekend here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Warren Jr.
Church music was the subject when the Junior Music Club met with Patsy Currier ('37) on
Highland Street. Catherine Burton ('37) gave a talk on early church music and Virginia
Jones ('37) played a violin number, accompanied by her mother at the piano. Dorothy
Currier and Dixie Turner ('36) sang “In the Garden.”
From the January 31, 2008 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
A county teachers meeting was scheduled in the Grove High School auditorium. Speakers
would be professor Chas. Pullen of Springville on tests, professor Chalmers Baugham on
science, professor R.P. Clark on history and Ruth Frow on home economics.
The Grove High baseball team was beginning practice under coach Dan Robison. Among
returning starters were Blease McAbee ('33), Buster Neese ('33), Lester Neese ('32), Don
Wending ('33), Bud Wendling ('34), Charles Neese ('35), Jimmie McAbee ('34), Ralph Caudle
('34) and “Red” Lewis.
Billy McSwain ('33), Charlie Timmons ('33) and Tony Currier ('32) motored to Nashville on
a Sunday.
From the
January 23, 2008 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
A talk and musical program were presented by Grove High School students at a Rotary Club
meeting. Jackie Irion ('59) spoke to the club and musical numbers were brought by Maxine
Maxwell ('59), Dian Neese ('59), Eddie Martin ('58), Bob Lee ('61) and Sherry Bond ('61).
Mitchum Warren Jr. ('52) was promoted to Lieutenant junior grade aboard the attack carrier
USS Saratoga. Warren had received his commission from the Naval Officers Reserve Training
Corp at Vanderiilt University.
From the
January 15, 2008 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
Will T. Warren, organizer of Golden Peacock Inc. and its president for 38 years, was
elected chairman of the board. His son, Mitchum E. Warren ('27), was elevated from vice
president to president.
From the
January 10, 2008 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
Robert Jelks, famed former coach of the Grove Blue Devil football team, announced he had
purchased Paris Insurance Agency from Joe G. Leach. Jelks had been in the insurance
business here since 1953, after a coaching career that had produced a number of
outstanding Grove teams, including the undefeated 1949 squad.
Camilla Cox ('57) returned by airplane to the University of Michigan after spending the
holidays here with her parents, Chancellor and Mrs. Wayne Cox.
Holcomb Brothers at 711 Depot St. advertised to buy old cars, mixed scrap iron, auto
batteries, radiators, copper, brass and dry black walnuts.
(I could not resist including this item. Holcomb Brothers was owned by the father and
uncle of Donald Holcomb ('50) and Bobby Holcomb ('52). My connection, I lived on that
block of Depot Street and Holcomb's was a treasure trove for me and the other kids that
lived on the block. The likes of Aubrey Hunt, McSwain and Junior Jackson. We were well
equipped with the U.S. Army surplus field packs, pistol belts, canteens, mess kits and pup
tents during WW II, the early forties.)
From the
January 10, 2008 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
Margaret McSwain ('30) entertained with a dinner at her home on North Poplar Street in
honor of a guest from Nashville. Guests included Martha Butler, Elizabeth McSwain ('30),
Emily Warren ('32), Mary Agnes Turner ('30), Billy Holman ('30), Kenneth Clayton ('32),
Cecil Humphreys ('32), Arthur Dunlap ('30), John Province ('32) and James Mansfield ('30).
From the
January 9, 2008 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
Grove basketball players featured by Kenny Clayton ('32) included Sandy Gatlin ('58) of
the girls’ team and Raymond “Beeder” VanDyke ('58) of the boys’ team.
Coach Lamar Roberts’ girls had breezed through the first half of the season at 12-0
and the boys, under coach Homer Spain, were 9-3.
From the
January 9, 2008 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
Emily Jeanette Mandle ('38) celebrated her 12th birthday with a party at her home on
Walnut Street. After guests arrived they went to the Capitol Theater for a Laurel and
Hardy movie, then returned for a three-course meal. Included in the hospitality were Emily
Sue Akin ('39), Betty Jane Fisk ('36), Laura McGehee ('38), Eleanor Watkins ('39),
Juliette Johnston, Linda Young and Cara Trevathan ('38).
From the January 3, 2007 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
First Methodist Church honored college students of the church who were home for the
holidays. Included in the group were Diana Tutt ('57), Pat Taylor ('56), Linda Adams
('56), Don McKinnon ('56), Morris Brown ('57), Nancy Norman Bouldin, Jim Gillespie ('57),
Eloise Mann, Paul Veazey ('57), Maurice Field ('56), Nita Whitfield ('57), Dan Wilkins
('56), Carol Oliver ('56), Mary Gabriel (', Dan Clark ('56), Gayle Guthrie ('54), Tom
Higgs ('57), George Whitfield ('54), Dick Reynolds ('55), Bill Holden, Joe Lawrence
Wasson, Camilla Cox ('57), Ann Davis ('57), Mike Howell, Frazier Cravens ('56), Bob
Osteen, Martha Ruth Neergaard, Ann Gaddy ('56), Inez Neese ('57), Mickey Norman ('57),
Sidney Boone ('55) and Ben Pardue ('44).
From the
January 3, 2007 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
A monster hog owned by Prof. D.O. McNeely of the Grove High School faculty was
slaughtered. The porker weighed 855 pounds and was nearly 9 feet long. One foot weighed 3
pounds and the hog yielded 112 pounds of sausage, 12 gallons of lard and three dozen cans
of tenderlion. McNeely said he had 1,400 more pounds of pork ready to be killed at a later
date.
From the
January 2, 2007 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
Jimmy Byrd Greer ('57), a freshman at Memphis State University, was elected chaplain of
the freshman class and evangelistic chairman of the Baptist Student Union. He had been
active in New Boston Baptist Church before graduating from Grove High School.
Featured by Kenny Clayton ('32) were two Grove basketball stars. Wanda Culpepper ('59) was
on the girls’ undefeated squad and Franklin Van Dyke ('58) was a guard for the
boys’ team.
From the
January 2, 2007 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
Arthur Dunlap ('30) had left for Memphis where he would enter the University of Tennessee
Medical School.
From the December 26, 2007 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
Miss Barbara O’Guin ('56) and Bobby G. Underwood ('54) exchanged marriage vows
Sunday, Dec. 22, at the Church of the Nazarene. Pastor the Rev. Robert Gray officiated.
Mrs. James P. Williams and Ardelle Cole brought a program of nuptial music. Mrs. Harold
George was matron of honor and Benjamin Knight best man.
From the
December 26, 2007 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
Billy Holman ('30) arrived from Annapolis to spend the holidays here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W.J. Holman of The Greystone Hotel.
College students home for the holidays included Margaret Younkin ('30) of Grinnell College
in Iowa; Elizabeth McSwain ('30) of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago; John
Gorman, and Tommy Gorman ('32) from Notre Dame; Emily Warren ('32) from Ward-Belmont; and
Margaret McSwain ('30) from Converse.
From the December 19, 2007 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
The Grove High School Tower Choir presented a public program of Christmas music in Weston
Hall auditorium. Among selected groups was a girls ensemble of Nan Bell ('60), Sherry Bond
('61), Marilyn Dunlap ('60), Carolyn Guinn ('59), Rosalyn Haywood ('58), Nancy Krider
('60), Maxine Maxwell ('59), Bettye Shofner ('59), Barbara Sykes ('58), Broeck Wahl ('58)
and Betty Wilson ('61).
Wasson Motors donated a new 1956 Ford to train Grove High School students in driver
education. Grove principal Dwight Norman was pictured with County Schoools Supt. Julian
Brewer, W.P. Williams of the Kiwanis Club, Grove driving instructor Bob Perkins, Ralph
Wasson and Kiwanis president F.H. Gulick.
From the
December 19, 2007 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
Eighteen players were awarded letters at an annual Lions Club football banquet at the
Elite Cafe. Included were Buster ('33), Lester ('32) and Charles ('35) Neese, Bishop Hert
('33), Billy McSwain ('33), Paul Newman ('31), Paul Scott ('33), Alec Ellis ('34), James
Enoch ('36), Charles Parkhill ('34), Thomas Little, Gilbert Pitt ('34), Blease McAbee
('33), Charles Butler ('34), Bud and Don Wendling ('34), Howard Whipple ('33) and Hayward
Highfill ('33).
Paris city schools would be shut down for a month, from Dec. 23 until late January,
because of lack of operating funds. The school tax had been increased from 35 cents to 50
cents, but little additional revenue had been realized. The number of pupils in the city
had increased by 50 over the previous year and less teachers had been hired.
From the
December 18, 2007 Edition ~ 50 YEARS AGO
The Grove Blue Devils broke a four-year basketball jinx with Union City by whipping the
Tornadoes 51-43. Jack Nichols ('58) had 22 points and Ronnie Brewer('59) 12, and big
Richard Lowe ('59) hauled down 20 rebounds.
From the
December 18, 2007 Edition ~ 75 YEARS AGO
Commercial Bank & Trust Co. planned to lease the former First National Bank Co.
building at Poplar and East Wood streets. The building had been purchased at auction for
$31,000 by the Henry County Investment Co., which had been chartered with capital of
$100,000. Members of the investment company were Joel M. Porter, R.L. Dunlap ('32), J.K.
Currier Jr. H.E. Kibbons ('17) and M.W. Younkin ('30). First National had been forced to
close in November 1930 after nationwide depression had started. The large building had
been built of steel and concrete in 1926 for $164,000.
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