Sheila's Potpourri
News from Huntington

If any of you remember me going to McMullen Memorial Library looking for a 1951 yearbook, there was not one for that year. Linda Reynolds and her brother Gene Earl Alexander remembered there was not one to come out for that school year. She was a freshman and he a graduating senior. Students from Huntington Schools were terribly disappointed with the omission of the book for that year.

Congratulations to Patti Schmidt Smith who will graduate from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia with a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree with a major in Communications. Patti had a grade point average of 4.0, works full time and is married to David Smith. She graduated from Lufkin High School and worked a number of years before deciding to attend college. Patti is the daughter of Eileen and Randy Birch of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee and Bill Schmidt of Ohio.

An amusing incident happened while I was waiting in line at the Dollar Store and an elderly gentleman got behind me. I offered to let him get ahead of me to check out but he declined saying he was not in a hurry, had nothing else to do. He asked how I was doing and my answer was that I was just getting older and slower. No doubt he was at least twenty years older than I and he said that he only had two speeds: slow gear and back up! He truly was moving at the speed of a snail but at least he was persevering and enjoying every minute of having someone to talk to.

Enjoyed visiting with Justin Haverland while getting a pair of shoes at Brown's Shoe Fit. He said his mom Becky Haverland is teaching again in Huntington but only has a short time until she can retire. I had not seen Hamp Richardson in a while but caught up with him at the store. He and Randy worked at Holland Hardware together many years ago. Judy Boyett Wisnoski was just getting to the store as I was leaving.

Eliza Mae Cochran Walker was laid to rest this week and as long as I can remember she and her family were neighbors to my grandparents Della and Joe Russell and my aunt and uncle Ruth and Pershing Denman. Eliza and her deceased husband R.B. Walker were the parents of Roy, Kenneth and Glenn.

It was a shock to open the paper and see Marquis Treadaway's obituary. It had not been that long ago that we met in Loper's Pharmacy and visited for a bit. Marquis was several years older than those in my class but he ran around with us. I'm not sure why except that he was from Rocky Hill and Tommy and Mack Pinner were, too. Anyhow wherever we socialized, he was with us. Our life wasn't filled with an abundance of social events so we really didn't care who was with us if they behaved themselves.

The only time Margie Jones Green and I ever even thought about playing hooky from school Marquis ended up coming along with as did Mack Pinner and ex Ivy. I do not know what ever possessed us girls to decide to do something so goofy. I had the wheels and off we all went and barely got out of town and then only stood around and talked. After my sister and I got the ear, I had a constant pass from the campus and ran errands for teachers. That was frowned on by my father and I was very careful doing errands for whatever reason but Margie and I knew if we were caught playing hooky we were both dead ducks! Needless to say we did not tarry long that evening nor did we enjoy a minute of our so called freedom. Absolutely nobody ever missed us from campus and it didn't seem to bother the guys but Margie and I never even thought about playing hooky again.

Our sympathy is sent to Marquis' children Royce, Ronald, and Richard Treadaway and Amy Williams and to his brother Jerry Treadaway.