Gray Academy - Raider Yearbook (Ashland, MS)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY As I look Into the year of 1991, I see the graduating class of 1982 gathering at the Mississippi Delta Plantation of Joe Faulkenbery, who now owns and operates 3500 acres of soybeans and 1500 acres of cotton. It seems that Joe has realized that you can't make a living by farming only 100 acres. First we meet Randy Curtis. Randy has become a country comedian on “Hee Haw where he spins yarns for a living. Randy said that he got all his experience from high school where he spun so many yarns about doing his homework by himself. A helicopter just landed on the plantation. Look who's in It. It's Susan Fleming. Susan Is now a secre- tary and pians to marry her boss who is no other than the Secretary of State, Mark Autry. Mark got all the experience he needed for the job while driving 18-wheelers and looking for certain numbers! What's that? A 747 just landed and out appeared Butch Davis. Butch now owns and operates 40 pulpwood companies headquartered In the city of Holly Springs. Butch and his wife live in Holly Springs, where he, In his spare time, plays basketball for some physchiatric pro team In Holly Springs. I hear a train coming down the tracks. It's Wayne Wilson. Wayne and his wife have four children now. Wayne has lain tracks from Lamar, MS, to the Gulf Coast. Wayne loves train life, and when he was little he always wanted to be a hobo. Wayne and his family now live In a train. Next we meet Patricia Taylor, a secretary for her father, who is in the plumbing business in Memphis. Patricia’s business can be found in the yellow pages under the title of Flush and Go . Amy Bolden has just finished her life-long dream of traveling the world with her husband. Amy now owns and operates a chain of Western Sizzler Steak Houses in Paris, France. As for myself I am now a widely renowned physician at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital where I am best known for my intense study of bed wetting. Well, I see it's time to get back to the barbecue. So long from the Mississippi Delta Plantation of Joe Faulkenbery. 13 Signed: Dennis Mason

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SECOND GRADE Eric Jeanes Christy Orman FIRST GRADE Brandy Carpenter Olivia Gresham Dana Hobson Jennifer Hobson Kristy Janes Shannon Jeanes Jeremy McCormick Becky McKenzie Sandra Matlock Shannon Wilburn

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GRA Y ACADEMY SENIOR CLASS OF 1982 Left to right: Randy Curtis, Patricia Taylor, Joe Fauikenbery, Mark Autry, Wayne Wilson. Dennis Mason, Amy Bolden, Butch Davis, and Susan Fleming. VALEDICTORIAN Dennis Mason SALUTA TORIAN Susan Fleming