-click to enlarge-Top: Doug White and Martha Jo Barber at the front of the old BHS gym.
Center: Harold Deen Grissom, Peggy Jones, Doug White, and Judy Bryant.
Lower: Harold Williams, Bonnie Ray Whitehead, and Mary Ann ??? - need some help with her name, please.
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Photos: Carolyn Wheeler Ghys.
Center: Harold Deen Grissom, Peggy Jones, Doug White, and Judy Bryant.
Lower: Harold Williams, Bonnie Ray Whitehead, and Mary Ann ??? - need some help with her name, please.
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Photos: Carolyn Wheeler Ghys.
21 comments:
Carl that is Mary Ann McDonald.
Is that Harold? Doesn't look like him and with no flat top and thin mustache? Maybe my memory is bad.
Peggy is still pretty as a picture.
I meant doesn't look like Harold Williams but I could be wrong.
It is Harold clowning for the camera!!
What became of Martha Jo?
Her mother Vera Irene Wallis Barber died in Jan 07 and I think Martha was living in Baldwyn at that time. She married a Bates.
Harold is definitely clowning and he appears to be wearing a neck brace.
Was Harold injured in football or something? Also Martha Jo married and had a family and the last I heard, still lives in Baldwyn.
PR
In the lower photo, observe the steps... someone has been "dusting" blackboard erasers on them, looks like.
I always volunteered to do the dusting - it got me and others outside for a while. We would use the side of the building and make intricate signs and words, such as "Beat Booneville" and "I go Pogo".
What fun.
"I go Pogo"? What does that mean?
I think it has about the same deep meaning as "Kilroy was here!"
Martha Jo lives in the Eastover Apts. in Baldwyn. She is in bad health & does not get out much. She has two sons that live in Baldwyn & several grandchildren that she adores.
One of Martha Jo's sons played basketball at Miss State and was real good..
Wallis
Wallace,
I believe that you may be thinking of her brother, Charlie Barber. Charlie lives around Tupelo.
"I go Pogo" was a popular saying in the early 50s. "Pogo" was a cartoon strip character, a 'possum' in the Okefenokee swamp who had a pet snake that he walked on a leash. The strip got very political about that time.
The term I Go Pogo meant that when spoken that the speaker was intending to vote for Pogo for president of the United States. He has run in each presidential race since 1952. Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo, started his presidential bids and it continued for many years. Some folks think that he may have made a great president...
You are right,,he was her brother..
But did Martha Jo not have two sons,,wonder where they are now?
Wallis
Both of Martha Joe's sons lives in Baldwyn & can do anything. The youngest son build his own house, from cabins, electrical to the plumbing. They are both very smart.
Kudos to Martha Jo. She deserves it.
Is there a fourth person in the lower photo? Or maybe that elbow looking thing is a handrail???
LOOKS LIKE A HANDRAIL BUT I DONT REMEMBER ANY THERE.
At first glance it appears to be someone's elbow, but on closer examination, Mary Ann seems to carrying not books but some type of device and a portion of it is protruding beyond her right shoulder.
Phil C
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