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All rights reserved. 27017 0215 BH 2015-27017_ELD__PremierClub_HenryMag_AD.indd 1 2/26/15 11:11 AM PUBLISHERS NOTE THIS IS WHAT I I would sit at the baseball field and watch Ricky Collins, Michael Gardner, Chris Gardner, Franklin Anderson, Jess Upchurch, David Prince and many REMEMBER! other friends crush the competition. I would visit the track and field meet and watch Vasio Smith compete in several events after changing out of his baseball uniform...and he would usually win. After reading Kristina Young’s story on Patrick Henry / Stockbridge High I would sit outside on the wall and discuss drafting competition with Cecil School, I felt inclined to share some memories and reflections about my time at Dillard and watch the ROTC group practice in the parking lot. And I would Stockbridge High School as part of the Class of ‘93. be crazy not to mention lunch period and the old juke box that played all the Stockbridge High School was more to my friends and me than four walls and hits from the 70’s even though it was the 90’s! To this day when I hear “Hooked a roof -- it was part of us and helped make us who we are today. I remember on a Feeling” by Blue Swede, I smell the pizza and corn they fed us every Friday as a 7th grader going to football games to watch Henry County High take on (Ooga-Chaka). Stockbridge High in the ‘county rivalry.’ At halftime I would sit in the stands At the end of my sophomore year Mrs. Sheffield approached me to ask if I hoping to catch a plastic football from the cheerleaders. I watched my big owned a camera and if I would be the school’s yearbook photographer. I did brothers, John and Will, and Will’s future wife, take the field in the Marching own a camera ...so the job was mine. How ironic that twenty-three years later Tiger Band. As the game progressed, I would lean on the fence hoping big Todd I would walk the same halls and grounds with a camera around my neck to Beachum and the rest of the offensive line could hold the defense back long take pictures one last time at Stockbridge High School. The classrooms were enough for Richie Brownfield to throw a touchdown pass to Ben Greer. empty, the fields were vacant and the gym was quiet. Through the silence my After 8th grade, it was my turn to walk the halls. As a freshman I was in a memory was flooded with sounds. I could still hear the echoes of my teachers whole new world, but felt right at home. Seniors like Allen Steele and Amy and friends, the basketball bounce off the gym floor, the roar of a crowd at Telenko would say ‘hello’ to a freshman like myself and give me a hand when a sporting event, the band warm up at half time, and the warning bell ring - needed. I spent most of my time in the band room playing music with friends letting us know we had one minute to get to class. that I am still in touch with to this day. I guess after saying all this,the feeling I have is gratitude. Gratitude for a During the fall we would grab our drums and run to the field, hoping to be in building that served so many Henry County residents for so long. If this order by the scheduled time.