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Part of the reason I went to Randolph-Macon Academy is that I didn’t get to run out on the field with the Pam Pack and my friends.

I went to the hospital and had surgery on my right knee that I had hurt during basketball season my junior year. It was a year that will never be forgotten. Instead, Dave Tayloe, Bill Nolley, Fred Watkins, Terry Smithwick and Bobby Hardy got to run across the field with the Pam Pack football team. It kept me out of basketball season too. I only got to play one sport my senior year.

Mrs. Mary Ella Jarman was the reason I went to RMA , because her son, Billy, did. He enjoyed it so much, but I saw it as a chance to do what I couldn’t do my senior year, play ball. Every day from freshman year through my junior year I had to take math at 9:30 a.m. with Mrs. Jarman. Daddy took me and picked me up from Mrs. Jarman home in Washington Park.

I got to play three sports at RMA, football, basketball and baseball and meet some new and interesting friends, one of which lives down here now, Mac Currin. The class of 68’ had many students and we won ball games, because we were winners!

We had many students that didn’t play ball, always the case, but those that did came from winners. We weren’t going to tolerate losers, ask Mac.

The whole squad of my seniors from Dave Tayloe to Terry Smithwick and Tomp Litchfield were at my HOF induction. My son, Will, said you got more friends than you can count on your fingers and your toes. I was lucky son, is what I told him! From RMA to the class of 1967, I made many friends and they are all my friends today.

They were best of times with the best of friends and in the best of places, Washington, NC! The Original Washington!