RSS feed for all messages. Hi Coach Riggs. I just found your message. I hope it's not too late to give input about our experiences during our "Remember the Titans" 71-72 school year at Broughton. My name is Pamela Perry Johnson. I would love to offer an insight from the Ligon Transplant perspective. In case you don't remember me, Peggy Kendall and I were co-head cheerleaders. My email address is Prenzebull@gmail.com. I look forward to speaking with you. Pamela class_forums_messages.cfm?mid=186999&r=1 2012-03-06T20:31:16-04:00 muqzoe I hope this gets to all of you and I hope all of you are doing well. I retired from coaching and teaching at Fuquay Varina about 2 years ago, but Marie and I still live here. After about 30 years of teaching and coaching and 8 years in the ministry ( in the 1980's), I decided to do some other things. I have been traveling some, began an Attitude Behavior Sports Camp for 8-12 year old boys and girls, volunteering at elementary school, doing some thinking and studying of the Bible, etc. Several of my former players at different schools I have coached at have asked me to write some things down from those years and I have given that some thought. I especially want to write about the 1970 championship team at Broughton and the following year when Raleigh closed Ligon and sent their students to Broughton being the first full year of integration. It was almost like we all lived through "Remember The Titans"; in fact that year could be "Remember the Caps". Anyway, I am contacting a lot of people (Sports writers, School board members who are still alive, teachers, and especially players ) I remember so I can get their input about what their memories and thoughts were of FIRST OF ALL the 1970 State Championship AND then SECOND of all the 1971 school and football year with all the integration and bussing. I realize all of you experienced the 1970 championship and would be interested IN ANYTHING you may remember about practices, games, people, other players, coaches, teachers, fans, school, Your stories, personal thoughts, etc. GOOD AND BAD memories are welcome--you will not hurt my feelings. I was only 24 remember. Then any of you that were in school in 1971, what do you remember about the bussing, schools then, football, etc. I hope to write some about both of those years, but keep them separate because I think the Championship team was a story in itself. I am not a writer, but I hope to put something together for my kids, grandkids, and maybe others by writing about my overall coaching days and experiences. You guys were a big part of that. I would love to hear from you about your thoughts and memories AND any emails, phone numbers, etc. of other students and players from that time if you have information of the whereabouts of the many other players who are not on this list. Just email me their contact info or you can share this with them. I would love to have breakfast, lunch with any of you to talk about this when you are in the area OR email me. I have set this as a goal for this next year to begin putting some ideas, thoughts, memories, etc. down on paper. I will be in and out a lot, but hope to make this a priority. Let me hear from you when you have time. I would love to hear what each of you are doing now and how you are. My address is 393 Burton Street Fuquay Varina, N.C. 27526 Phone is 919-762-1259 email is davidlriggs@gmail.com Thanks and hope life is good for everyone and may God bless and continue to give you guidance. David Riggs class_forums_messages.cfm?mid=77585&r=2 2009-10-19T13:24:18-04:00 muqzoe Mrs. Allison stands out as one of my favorites also. I remember my senior year, walking in to her class the first day and being relieved it wasn't Mrs Peacock!! Mrs. Allison stood up and asked us "Who is going straight into the work force after graduation?"... a few people raised their hand. Then she asked, " Who is going to tech. school?"... again a few others raised their hand. Then she asked, "Now, who is going to a 4 year college?" The rest of us raised our hands... She said "OK, I want the work force folks on the back row, the tech school folks in the middle rows, and the college bound folks on the front rows... I got to teach y'all some english!!"... and she meant it! This lady ended up teaching each of these three groups what they needed to know for where they were headed in life. She somehow managed to keep us all focused and challenged in our own way. She said to the work force people... "Y'all don't need to spend the year learning how to write a reseach paper and a proper bibligraphy and interpreting literature. You need english for life skills." I will always admire her for not taking the easy way out by teaching the same thing to everybody. She was tireless and NEVER complained. I loved watching her talk to the ceiling while she looked out above her glasses... She treated us like adults yet still had that spark of a sly sense of humor. I visited her several times in her home after I graduated and she was always so gracious and glad to see me. College english was a breeze thanks to Mrs Allison's tenacity and also to Mrs. Rosser for drilling that vocabulary into us my sophomore year! Mrs. Allison was one of those people who not only taught english, but was a role model for living. class_forums_messages.cfm?mid=43500&r=3 2009-07-20T10:57:45-04:00 My Favorite Teacher, Mrs. Muriel Allison There were 3 teachers that have influenced my life : Ms. Alison; Ms. Gealy; and Ms. Fisher. What great educators they were. I have retired now and I hope some of my students remember me with that kind of respect. Gay Butler Murphy class_forums_messages.cfm?mid=42355&r=4 2009-07-16T20:37:33-04:00 My Favorite Teacher, Mrs. Muriel Allison This grand lady was much more than an educator; she was a friend and mentor. I looked forward to her class 1st period every morning and my expectations were always met and then some! I remember her telling a story about a trip she took with her daughter, Rolanda to the UNC campus. They had an encounter with a long-haired hippie on the way to the Planetarium. She was walking through one of the grassy spots during the Spring when they were approached by the student. He had something in his hand and was focused on her daughter as he walked up to them. She said she was glad she had her big pocketbook as she was getting ready to hit him with it! The dude came up to Rolonda and reached out and handed her a dogwood blossom. Mrs. Allison was quite relieved at the outcome and said they kept the flower dried and pressed in their family bible. It was a good story by a great teacher! class_forums_messages.cfm?mid=41878&r=5 2009-07-15T17:35:57-04:00 My Favorite Teacher, Mrs. Muriel Allison Didn't Cmdr. Mullins have a story about a dog he kept aboard ship that would "do his duty" off the bow of the boat? class_forums_messages.cfm?mid=41871&r=6 2009-07-15T17:12:08-04:00 NBHS '72 - The Best Stories There have been some really AWESOME stories about life during the NBHS '72 years. This is the place to share those special stories and situations during our time at N.B. Broughton. OK... Here is John Coffey's story Okay, here is a story that has given me much perverse pleasure and because I've retold it a hundred times it may no longer be true...my senior year I was in an advanced world history class taught by that jingo-patriot Cmdr. Kennedy F. Mullins, USN (Ret.). Cmdr. Mullins and I never found common ground. I was politically left and the Commander was...the opposite. So, we tangled, both of us relishing the drama. He especially suspected my interest in Russian history (no matter that my interest waned after the Revolution). I was kid enough to relish baiting him. Once on a test I objected to a mark-down on an answer I knew was correct. The question asked what ruler was known as the "White Tsar?" and I wrote (correctly) Alexander III. However, Cmdr. Mullins insisted that the answer was Alexander II...here you can appreciate the triviality of the contest. My obstinacy threw him into a rage, all the hotter when he discovered his error. Soon after, the faculty met to vote on nominations for the Broughton Service Club. My name was included in the list, probably because of my work with the Little Theater and Stage Crew. Each teacher reportedly had the right to veto any nomination and when my name came up Cmdr. Mullins objected, stating as a reason my "known communist convictions." I was duly passed over. This slight would likely have scarred my life had not the following year, after I'd graduated, some friends and sympathetic teachers lobbied successfully to award me a "posthumous membership" in the Service Club. Now thirty-seven years later, I give grudging respect to the dear commander. His world was the the 1950s and Douglas MacArthur was his hero. But the year was 1972, not 1950, and to him I was from another planet (the Red Planet?) Were he still alive he might be amazed at what a good little commie I was...never. Keep the stroies coming... class_forums_messages.cfm?mid=41760&r=7 2009-07-15T11:39:47-04:00 NBHS '72 - The Best Stories