* THOSE LAZY, HAZY DAYS *
                     OF SUMMER...

Those were the days, my friend.  We thought they'd never end....  But they did.   

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  ~ Our School Days ~
 

 
  ~ Memories & Things from Tony Miller 
      ...for all my beloved Schoolmates...

                                                                   
                                  ( I have borrowed Popeye's saying:  "I yam what I yam"  ...because it fits.)
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~  STONE MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL  ~
Stone mountain, Georgia

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...How about

Those great times at Stone Mountain High School

                                                   ...at The Rock!

     (*) Some may not remember that my family moved to Stone Mountain for a year and a half during my time in High School.  I spent a wonderful Junior and half of my Senior year at Stone Mountain, where I was welcomed almost literally with open arms and made to feel far more than just welcome.  Perhaps that was just the way it was back then with every "new kid", but it seemed that everyone without exception wanted me for their special friend, and I had to work hard not to get the "big head".
     Do you remember...? ...going to Golden's for a coke, hanging out at Mountain Pharmacy, parking for a little "smacky mouth" at the base of the mountain, and some of us building bonfires on top of the mountain at midnight when we had nothing else to do?  "Those were the days my friend - We thought they'd never end."     ...but they did. 
                                                                                                                                        ...Tony

 

                                                                

  TO
 (*)  JONNIE SUE . . .

                                                                       

Wherever you are Jonnie Sue,  I wish you health, happiness and love.  You could not have known just how much our 1955 Prom date meant to me back then, or how special the memories down through the years.  How sweet and wonderful you were - and how envious were all the other guys that you were my girl and not theirs. Even though I was popular and well thought of, I was painfully insecure...just a poor boy who had to work every evening after school, no car most of the time, parents in bad health....  But on that special occasion you made me a king because YOU were my queen.  This country will not again know such girls as you, indeed like most all the girls back then; - you were pretty, vivacious, intelligent, virtuous, breathtakingly bursting with womanhood, ...and as pure as the driven snow.   How very fortunate is the one you chose to make your life with.  
      This music, Ernesto Cortisar's beartiful rendition of "Begin the Beguine", is dedicated to you, dear.

                                                               God  bless you and yours.

                                                      ...Tony Miller  (Emil T. Miller)

                                                                                                       
                                                     
          

                                                             

               
          JOHN ATTAWAY - 1955                             SARAH  (Hicks) ATTAWAY  
       Senior - Stone Mountain High School                       January 6, 1917   -   November 23. 2001
                 Stone Mountain, Georgia                         (John's Mother ...and my surrogate mother for
                                                                              several weeks in Stone Mountain, Georgia - 1954)

               My Tribute to the Attaway Family:

     Perhaps some of you, my SMHS schoolmates (and my CHS schoolmates as well), will remember that my parents moved back to Carrollton in the middle of our Senior year.  I had mixed emotions about it.  On the one hand I was devastated at having to leave my classmates in Stone Mountain where I had been so popular and well thought of, and at leaving the many adult friends I had made at the Methodist Church and all around town from working at Hewatt's Supermarket.  All had welcomed me with open arms and made me as much a part of them as if I had been there all my life.  And yet at the same time I was so very happy to be going back to be amongst my Carrollton classmates and graduate with all those I had gone to school with since the 1st grade.  I just knew they would be just as glad to have me back among them....
     If I had been forced to leave Stone Mountain at the time my parents moved back to Carrollton, I would have lost the credits for that quarter of school, and would not be able to graduate with my class of 1955.  So how was I able to to graduate with them?  Because of the loving generosity and hospitality of my friend and classmate John Attaway, his younger brother and his sweet mother Sarah, who invited me into their home to finish out that school quarter at SMHS.  Mrs. Attaway was a widow you see, and struggling to raise her children at  a time when there were no child care centers and few jobs for women anyway.  And yet she invited and welcomed me into their home, sat me down at her table, fed me and provided a bed for me, washed my dirty clothes, and mothered over me as if I were one of her own.  She did this compassionate thing specifically so I could graduate with my class at Carrollton - because she knew how much it meant to me.   I love her still, and will never forget Mrs. Attaway's lovingkindness nor that of her son John and his younger brother.  John had lost his father and had been forced to go from boy to man before he should have, and he was truly the "man of the house" even back then.  He had worked and bought his own car and we double-dated several times in that old  1947 Ford - do you remember one very special time, Jonnie Sue Gouge?? 
     This then, is my tribute to them, Mrs. Attaway having since passed away.  Thank you so much!

                                                                                                            ...Emil T. Miller  (Tony)
 

Yours truly:

                                                     Emil T. Miller   (Tony)  -   Spring, 2004
                       We've got so many flowers they even grow outside the fence!
OK, so I get a few snickers in the supermarket and around, for wearing boots with short pants.  I don't give a rats' fanny.  It suits me and I'm cool and comfy.  Besides, I might want to kick the hell out of something, and boots do a much better job of that.
 

 

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~  CARROLLTON HIGH SCHOOL  ~   
Carrollton, Georgia
 

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...those Wonderful Memories at DEAR OLD CHS!

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First a tribute:

This Poem and  the following items are my tribute in Memorium to...

 
ANNE  (THOMAS) WELLS,  
               ...for Ann's husband Harry (my good friend)  
         ...for My CHS Class of 1955,
        ...(and for myself)...
 

(Anne just passed away - March 27, 2005, at the age of 67)
 

ETERNAL SPRING
by Tony Miller

In the Spring we blossomed. 
In the long hot Summer we grew strong and tall. 
In the Fall we matured and are harvested. 
In the Short Winter we are kept safe....
For in the coming Eternal Spring we will be re-planted
 to blossom and flourish afresh and anew.
Together again.
...For all time.

                                                                                                                                             
 
            
                                          

    ~ ANNE THOMAS (WELLS) ~
      1937  -  2005   
A special classmate in the Carrollton, Georgia schools  -  late 40's and early 50's 
 

►Be sure your sound is on and CLICK HERE for a very nice PowerPoint presentation of beautiful nature scenes set to good music with some captions which I believe are appropriate to this sad time for her husband Harry as well as for all of us who were Anne's classmates at Carrollton High School, Carrollton, Georgia - graduating Class of 1955.  (Give it a little time to load). 
    A little bit of all of us passed away with Anne - and yet she is alive in our hearts and will always be.   She will be sorely missed at our up-coming 50th Class Reunion on May 13-14, 2005. 
                                           God be with us all, now and forever.   ...Amen
                                                                                                                                     ...Tony

 

       ~ Those lazy, hazy school days in Carrollton, Georgia ~                                      ...in the late 40's and early 50's  ~

(*)  Do you remember "going to the show?"  To see those Saturday Matinee's at the Carroll Theater, (or the Playhouse Theater on Maple Street)?  Remember how we would all applaud when the cartoon came on? And how we would get scared and run all the way home after a scary movie?  Only cost a dime to get in when we were in grade school, and you could meet your sweetie there and hold hands in the dark so nobody would see and tease either of you!  
      Do you remember Anne? (*) Do you remember how you would pull up our hands and bite your fingernails while watching the movie and while we were still holding hands?  And how sweaty our hands  got because neither of us wanted to let go?  Do you remember those innocent, tender and carefree days of long ago?  Do you Anne, my first Sweetheart??

         ► CLICK HERE!  .......(and Here),  ...(and Here), ...(and Here),  ...(and Here), 
                                              ...(and Here),  ...(and finally, Here).   
 

College Street School in the 1940's

(and more, complements of Larry Hogue)

          Nell Meadows                Safety Patrol                Girls on Senior Trip        Boys on Senior Trip

 

                                                                

                                             My cousin Allyn Miller and Larry Hogue  -  (2 'kewl' dudes!)

       ......in front of Allyn's house on Chandler Street across from the City Gym and Swimming Pool.  

 

 

~  THE  2005  CHS CLASS REUNION  ~   
 

    ►A wonderful 50th Anniversary Reunion was held, on May 13 & 14, 2005◄

Of the 79 who were in our class, 39 attended, 8 have passed away, and 32 were sorely missed  - including I assume, myself, who was unable attend this, the only reunion I knew anything about - having been "lost" I suppose, to my classmates for almost 50 years - since leaving Carrollton for Texas in 1957.

          ►A beautiful graveside service was held May 14th at the Old Camp Methodist Church, attended by most of those attending this 2005 Reunion, where the ashes of Anne Thomas (Wells) were spread over the graves of her adoptive parents, Dudley and "Homie" Holmes - a most appropriate decision.  It is said there was not a dry eye in the whole bunch (nor mine at this moment).
                                                                                                                                ...Tony

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      Anne girl, were we ever this young?         And yes.   I still love you.   Always will.

        

                 Both are our school pictures, taken in 1951 - We were in the 8th Grade
"Sub-Freshmen" is what 8th graders were called in High School at that time.  Our romance (puppy love some would say) began in the summer after our 6th grade and went through the 7th grade, over that following summer, and through the 8th grade.  I have good reason to know that it never completely ended for either of us, though after H.S. graduation I never saw Anne or even knew where she was for almost 40 years.  I will always be just about as mushy over her as I was then.  Anne resides in a special little room in my heart where I go visit her whenever I feel the need.  And hers is not the only little room like that in my heart either.
     This I have learned: Any and all we have ever loved, we will always love, regardless.  It is a fact of life we cannot change or suppress, even if we wanted to - we can only accept it and be grateful for it.       
                                                                                                                      ...Tony

                                                                      

                   

                                            ANNE THOMAS    1937 - 2005
                         High School Senior, 1955 - Carrollton High School - Carrollton, Georgia

                                                                      

                                                      (Click this picture to Enlarge it)

                                                    
                                                            Anne (Thomas) Wells   
                                                                      May 9, 2002

               Anne sent me this picture March 21, 2003, after I finally located her to send her a copy of my book; The Jade Monkey, which I dedicated to her and 9 other special
                                        friends during my High School years                  ...Tony Miller

                                                                     

 

 
►Here is the Group Picture from the 2005 CLASS REUNION◄
of the Class of 1955 at Carrollton High School - Carrollton, Georgia
(There were 39 of the original 79 in attendance)

(For a much larger picture of the one shown above, click this thumbnail, then click to Resize Larger)

FRONT ROW, L-R:   Joan Buchanan, Janice Chandler, Joan Volp, Jackie Gray, Louise Eason, Carolyn Jackson, Jan Payton, Joyce Entrekin, Janice Entrekin, Sue beavers, Emily Ashmore, and Evelyn Murphy.

SECOND ROW, L-R:   Charles Chesnut,  Jerry Vines,  Kenneth McWhorter ,  Martha  Ann Hubbard, Linda Bonner, Shirley Preston, Janet Adams, Wendell Muse, Don Washington, Phylis Crawford, Edna Wingo, Martha Ann Cook, Joyce Bates, Howell Row, and Charles Lott.

BACK ROW, L-R:   Gene Brown, David Brown, Gary Cooper, Howard Robinson, George Cruselle, Joe Chambers, Joe McGinnis, Quana Caldwell, Olin Ivey, Billy Duncan, Bobby Duncan, and Larry Austin.

NOTE 1:   Neither in the picture nor in attendance (32), but missed, were:  Jeanette Allen, Janet Bennett, Robert Bonner, Ronelle Bass, Wendell Brown, Carole Copeland, Connie Cramer, Mary Lynn Cumbie, Hamil Donald, Larry Gable, Tony Harris, David Hay, Larry Hogue,  Vera Jackson, Helen Jordan, Bernard Kilgore, Margurite LaFoy, Barbara Long, Shirbie Lovvorn, Otis McIntosh, Tony Miller, Pledger Moon, Patsy Morton, Glenda (Wiley) Morgan, Jo Pace, Edward Pope, Shirley Rigsby, Ann Searborough, Bonnie Shirah, Judy Stipe, Betty Wright, and Bradley Young.

NOTE 2:   IN LOVING MEMORY:  Classmates who have passed away (8) and who were sorely missed: 
Bill Dunbar, Jimmy Godbee, Donald Heath, Anne Henderson, Charles Morgan, Sammy Roberts, Anne Thomas, and Audrey (Wessinger) Smith.

►MY CLASSMATES: PLEASE NOTE:   Thanks to the good graces of Jan (Payton) Dellinger and Don Washington, who helped me gather up pictures and materials, I am able to offer the "Package" including Group Picture, of each the reunions to date (1980, 1990, 1995, and 2005) to any who were unable to attend and who therefore do not have their own copy - just let me know which year you need.  I have everything scanned into my computer hard drive and can produce for you a quality reproduction of these different reunion packages that were put together by the dedicated Reunion Committee.  You have but to contact me and request a package - there will be no charge from me....                                           ...Tony

You can email me at:  Tony@books-n-sundries.com, or contact Jan (Payton) Dellinger in Carrollton, who will give you my telephone number in Tennessee.  And since I was not at the reunion to see you in person (I have yet to attend one), you can see a picture of me, if you care to, by scrolling on down....
 

Now for some more stuff...

                             
 Friends and me from Carrollton High School:            Larry Austin in China:        

        

                 1953  -  "SOME PALS"                              Larry achieved the highest
L-R:  Donald Heath, Robert Bonner, Kenneth              ranking possible for an enlisted
McWhorter, and me, Tony Miller.  This picture            man in the U. S. Navy - Lt03,
was taken in 1953 I believe, when we were in               which is the equivalent of a 
the 10th grade at Carrollton High School, Carrollton,     Captain in the other services.
Georgia.  It was taken by Robert's mother, at their        He got a total of 15 promotions.
house one afternoon after school.
                                                             
                                                                 (Click to Enlarge)

                                            

                   *College Freshman    In the Army (mdl)      ...in the Mohave         Emil T. Miller
                        Tony - 1955               - 1959                 - leaning into the            (Tony)
                 West Georgia College    Ft. Ord, Calif.             wind,  1959            about 1970
 

                          

                          Now here are
             more randomly chosen photos
    that might be of interest to classmates, family
                              and friends:

                         (Click the pictures to enlarge them)

            Mrs. Tumlin's  3rd   Dignified for a     Me about 4 yrs old          My Gambler           Me about 1986
Grade class (or Ms.   3rd grader!       - taken at Stewart St.      Grandfa...err, no.   - at Salida, Colo
Cook's 2nd ??)                                    Carrollton, Georgia       Me, posed at K.C., Mo

                         Me & Bradley Young        Miss           Me and Cliff Brown   Beer by the Yard!  Cliff & Vickie at
at Bobby Bryson's   Francis Thompson     at his wedding       (this was long ago)  "The Barn" in     
     Wedding            (our typing teacher                                   I don't drink now    Austin, Texas
                                     at CHS)                                        - and very little, ever.
 

       Click to Enlarge this unique picture)         Ms Scarbourough  Senior Trip Photo   Our First Grade Class at College Street School, Miss Kate Slade          (one of our HS            (note someone      was our teacher.  Charlotte Reeves, my secret sweetheart,
teachers at CHS)     taking my picture    was edged out a year later by Betty Wright.  After that girls   
                              too!)                      did not exist until Anne Thomas came along in the 6th grade.

    
                            
                 ♥   Miraim Davis  ♥
                Another "Special" schoolmate  -
   Stone Mountain High School, Stone Mountain, Ga

  (I never learned to Parlez much Francais with her beside me
     in French class, but I did manage to sing Alouette to her!)

      ...For you Miriam - CLICK HERE:                            "Alouette"

             P.S.   Dang me, I still love you Miriam...
                             

 

 

 

                                                 

►Now let's all quit looking so far back, and start making the most of our future!

                                                            

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