This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
During the week of Oct. 14, 1977, the McDowell High marching band was scheduled to honor its senior band members during a halftime show at Titan Stadium. One of the highlights in the show was a trumpet solo by Chris McKinney. The senior band members were (left to right, front row) Angie Morris, Ronnie Lytle, Sandra Cox and (surrounding them, from left) Denise Early, Chris McKinney, Becky Condrey, Kim Harris, Keith Laney, Ray Lee Taylor, Billy Pyatt, Lisa Simmons, Tammy Silvers, Leslie Barlowe and Tina Buchanan. Not pictured were band members Jamie Blair, Ashley Gallagher, Mark Womack, Beth Bryant, Karen Davis, Linda Pittman, Jimmie Lunsford, Eugene Cox and Hugh Justice.
Forty-eight years ago this week, McDowell High Homecoming Queen Danette Staton was escorted from the football field by Titan tri-captain Stanley Arrowood. Fellow students elected Staton from a field of six Senior Class representatives. The Titans were not so successful in their homecoming game. They fell 30-20 to the East Burke High School Cavaliers.
McDowell High celebrated homecoming with a parade in downtown Marion. This float of Puff the Magic Dragon was the junior class entry and was the class division winner in the parade.
McDowell High celebrated homecoming with a parade in downtown Marion. These young people were dressed as clowns.
McDowell High celebrated homecoming with a parade in downtown Marion. The children on this truck seemed to be having a great time in the parade.
Carroll Moore and Gaynelle Moore, son and widow of George Gaither “Jack” Moore, present the dedication plaque for the site of the Ashford-North Cove Volunteer Fire Department to Chief Paul Branch (left). The Moores donated the land for the site of the fire station and more than 150 people turned out for the ceremonies.
An IBM System 32 computer was installed in the office of County Finance Officer Judy Wright. She planned to eventually convert most of the county’s paper load into the new system, which was state of the art for 1977. McDowell County employees received their first computer processed payroll checks that week. Wright said future plans called for other county departments to put much of their paperwork onto the computer.
McDowell High guidance counselor Howard Haney (left) presented the Greenlee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Citizenship Award to MHS senior Randy Gideon, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Gideon of Old Fort. He was given this award based on his participation with Boys State, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, listing in Who’s Who of American High School Students, nomination to the U.S. Naval Academy and a finalist with Air Force ROTC and the Navy ROTC scholarship competition.
The McDowell High School lunchroom personnel observed National Lunchroom Week, which was proclaimed by both President Jimmy Carter and Gov. Jim Hunt. The high school’s lunchroom personnel was (front row, from left) Manager Lucille W. Searcy, Beulah Waycaster, Pat Phillips and Ruth Lawing and (back row, from left) Anne McCraw, Lola Estep, Annie M. Allison, Della McCormick, Elsie Norman, Hazel Jimerson and Brenda Torrey. Hilda Messer was not available for photo.
Luther Hodges (third from right) talked with some of the Democratic Party leaders who turned out for a breakfast and reception at the Lemon Tree Inn. At the event were (from left) Bob Hunter, Thurman Padgham, Horace Lance, Clay McIntosh, Hodges, Fred Boyd and John Gilkey. Hodges was seeking the Democratic nomination to run against U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms in the 1978 election.
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This feature mines the McDowell News archives for what was going on this week in local history.
This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
