Hardee High School - Wildcats Echo Yearbook (Wauchula, FL)

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'Qt-'V ig F: U 3 'W '. -- iw, ., - .fn Q ' 2' S. affl , 5-fa y TT 5 ,353 if! 9 . mi i' :M k i ' 'Q ew E it if- ogaitw Back row, left to right: James Carlton, Frankie Albritton, Bill Bryan, Carl Clark, Bill Barley, Richard Knight, Robert Thomas, Dennis Melton, Wayne Conerly. Front row: Douglas Ray, Charles Abemathy, Merle Henderson, Gene Yarley, Charles Yawn, Jack Strickland, Dewey Terrell, Pat Shiver. X ' X W7 l l !I gl! S J X X X X 7..,,,,4,,a T COACH JOHNSON AND COACH TERRELL Back row, left to right: Charlie Wood, Larry Terrell, Bill Yarley, .lim Moseley, Nickie Lanier, Don Childress, Eddie Lee Henderson, Warren Gibbs, Ross Hendry, .l0hnie Hamilton. Front row: Bobby Pippen, Bill Hendry, Carol Platt, Ronald Waters, Stevie Whidden, Charles Coker, Earl I 25 Crawley, Charles Dickey, Edward Benton.