Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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Nancy, my love, Enlightened, I have been known to seek the darkness, and to cherish a restless love that lives only after sunset. I dream of the warmth that awaits me in the gentle arms of night and I long for the kiss of a maiden that fears the cold of morning. I have felt the touch of Your soul, deep within me and I cannot help but share my own as well. From its lofty home, atop the mountain of night, a single star has witnessed the union of a divided rainbow and the sleep that finds us within each other's arms. I awaken on the grass, as the sound of Your laughter echoes in my mind, only to find myself alone and empty. The star, as I, has felt the cold of morning, patiently, we both, await the darkness Fino' a Friend The name of a friend is common. but faith in friendship is rare. So it is not easy to find a friend that you can trust, and that will really care. Life is nothing without friendship, so see if you can find, a friend that will not let you down, or turn to foe when turned around. If you ever find a friend like this be a friend in return, and never, ever let him down, and also try to learn. . . It can take - Homer months Cloud Tell me, did you ever know, that teardrops make the flowers grow? Teardrops from those pesty clouds Who always block the sun, They're the ones we always blame When work is never done, But you'd be surprised what clouds can do, They keep the sun from blinding you, and children can create such things just looking at these forms. Now tell me, did you ever say That you despised a cloudy day? - Oscar Walton I 54 - What We Thought to make a friend but it only takes a moment to lose one. -Gloria Ramirez I

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Amelia Earhart, the famous woman flyer of the thirties, was my fourth cousin. She was famous for being the first woman flyer and most noted for her solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. ln1937 she attempted to fly around the world, but in doing so, people believe she was killed in a plane crash, or by the japanese in the South Pacific on july 2,1937. She had plans to visit my father, who is a third cousin to her, at his home in Pennsylvania after her flight around the world, but never made II. It still remains a mystery as to where she is or what happened to her, but my own family believes she was captured and killed by the japanese because they thought she was an American spy. - Patti Earhart I thought that finding something different about my family wouldn't be too difficult, and after discussing it with my father, he told me about his great, great, great grandfather. William Henry Nooner was a fifth generation Irishman, born around 1800. He lived in central Tennessee. By profession, Nooner was a slave transporter. He worked for his brother, Nathan, who was a slave trader. Their arrangement was for Nathan to buy and sell slaves at the slave markets and William would transport them to their new owners in the northern or southern plantations. Since this is all I know about William H. Nooner, I can't tell how he felt about his job. And I can't help but wonder. - Louann McAllister l56 - What We Thought The Coffin Saga Sir Richard Coffin, Knight, accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy to England in the year1066. The following generations included Sir Elias Coffyn in the days of King john, Sir Richard Coffyn in the time of Henry II, Sir jeffrey Coffyn and Combe Coffyn under Henry III, and other knights, descendents of these, during successive reigns, until the time of Henry VIII. When Sir William I Coffyn was Sheriff of Devonshire, Nicholas Coffyn, a descendent of William, had five children. One son, Peter, had two sons. One of these sons was the famous Tristram. Tristram Coffyn was appointed by a royal commission of King of England to be the Chief Magistrate of Nantuckett and Tackanuckett on june 29,1671, at Fort james in New York. Tristram Coffyn was born at Brixton near Plymouth in the county of Devonshire in England in 1605. From England he brought with him his wife, mother, two sisters and five children. One of his sons was named james, which our geneology traces back to and from which my particular family directly descends. When Tristram Coffyn got to New England he settled at Salisbury. In 1659, he made an exploration to a group of islands off the Massachusetts coast with the idea that he would eventually move to the islands from the mainland. When Tristram Coffyn first visited Nantuckett in 1659, he took with him Peter Folger,who went along as an i interpreter of the Indian language. Peter Folger was the grandfather of Benjamin Franklin and was also founder of the family that became known as the traders and merchants of the coffee business. I Tristram Coffyn and nine other men purchased Nantuckett from the Indians in 1660. Now as Chief Magistrate, he was the political leader of Nantuckett. The Coffyn family was quite large and grew and grew but most of the family remained on the island. In 1826, Sir Isaac Coffyn, a native of Boston who had gone to England early in life, became an admiral in the British navy. He returned to Nantuckett and founded the Coffyn School. By 1826 the I spelling of the family's name was changed from Coffyn to Coffin. My great-grandfather was born in the 1850's in jamestown, New York. He came to Texas as a lighthouse I keeper at Indianola on Lavaca Bay near what is now the town of Port Lavaca. In about 1890, a hurricane completely demolished Indianola and my great-grandfather was the sole, survivor of the Coffin family. He came further down into Texas to Rockport and married my great-grandmother. He raised another family and the youngest son in that family l is my grandfather, Sylvester Coffin, who now resides at l Swinney Switch' near Lake Mathis. My grandfather has two children. The older son, Robert, who is my father, is an attorney in Corpus Christi. He, then, has us: my older brother Richard, myself and my younger sister, Susan. - Charlotte Coffil I