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| Ralph "Shug" Jordan |
16 YEARS AGO
MAY 23, 2002
Basketball Camp: NBA star
Wesley Person of the Cleveland Cavaliers will put on a youth basketball camp in
Evergreen for all boys and girls interested in playing basketball, age nine to
18. The camp will be held June 3-5 at Hillcrest High School.
Discussion of Carver ends
council meeting: The Evergreen City Council meeting ended abruptly Tuesday
night, as it has several times in the past year, with council members walking
out of the meeting. The meeting ended this time over the closing of Carver
Recreation Center.
After conducting a portion of
the business on the agenda for the evening, Councilwoman Tanisha Booker
requested that Carver Recreation Center be added to the agenda for the meeting.
Mayor Lomax Cassady said that he had changed the procedure for the meetings and
the council members could not add anything to the agenda without a vote of the
council.
Councilwoman Booker said she
wanted Carver Recreation Center added to the agenda because she wanted to know
why the center was going to be closed for the summer without it being discussed
by the council. The Mayor said that they had not passed a budget and there was
not funding for the center to be opened for the summer.
At one point, Councilwoman
Booker made a motion to add the item to the agenda. Her motion was seconded by
Councilwoman Maxine Harris but failed to pass when Councilmen Lynn Blackmon and
Homer Chavers along with Mayor Cassady voted against the motion. Councilwoman
Joye Fordham abstained from voting because she said she did not want to get in
the middle of the argument. She later requested that the Carver Recreation
Center be placed on the agenda for the next meeting and the mayor agreed to do
so.
During the discussion, Booker
told the other council members that they did not care enough about the children
to discuss it. Councilman Blackmon said that he and Councilman Chavers had been
over to the park three times last summer and there were just over a hundred
kids at the center.
“To heck with Carver as far
as I’m concerned,” said Blackmon.
“We just paid one million
dollars to the hospital, but we can’t spend any money for Carver,” Booker said.
The exchange of words
continued as the mayor attempted to move on with the agenda. After approving
several items, the mayor made a motion to adjourn and he and several council
members left the room.
41 YEARS AGO
MAY 26, 1977
Junior League ball is
cancelled this summer: The Evergreen Junior Baseball League will not be in
operation this summer, according to President Matthew Davis, because of
problems with insurance.
Davis explained that Greif
Bros., owners of the Evergreen Heading Co. property where the League’s Ward
Alexander Memorial Park is located, required the league to secure a large
amount of liability insurance. He said that the league had been unable to
secure the insurance.
Davis said that league
officials regret very much having to cancel this summer’s activities, but found
the insurance matter beyond their control. He said that efforts would be
continued to try to arrange for play in future years.
Davis is chosen all-star
team: Kelvin Davis of Lyeffion High School has been chosen by the coaches in
Region 1 to represent this area in the yearly all-star game. Davis won this
honor by his all-around play this season. He will travel to Tuscaloosa on July
23, and will play in the Memorial Coliseum at the University of Alabama.
This past year, Davis won the
Most Valuable Player in the County Tournament, when he and his team defeated
the Evergreen Aggies, 44-39. He also has made all-tournament teams in three
tournaments.
Davis says he is very
thankful to his teammates because without them he wouldn’t have gotten this
award.
He is the son of Mrs. Verba
Davis and the grandson of Miss Rachel Rodgers.
The Lyeffion High School
Girls Track Team won the championship of the first county track meet in
history.
Nine Sparta athletes earn
all-district honors this year: Nine Sparta Academy athletes – five girls and
four boys, earned all-district honors in various sports and were honored at the
Alabama Private Schools Athletic Association District III All-Sports Honors
Banquet held here last Thursday night at the Holiday Inn.
Coach Ralph “Shug” Jordan,
Auburn University’s all-time winningest coach, was the featured speaker at the
banquet. Coach Jordan, generally considered one of the finest gentlemen ever
associated with major athletics, charmed his audience with his wit and humor
and also gave them some inspirational and educational thoughts from his lifetime
in athletics. Coach Jordan retired at the end of the 1975 season.
Donna Salter of the girls
basketball team, Bobby Johnson, Jerry Peacock and Johnny Cook of the football
team, Tim Johnson of the basketball team, and Janice Pugh, Donna Miller, Nancy Price
and Cheryl Hutcherson of the state championship track team of Sparta were all
honored as all district.
Head Coach Danny Covin of
Lyeffion High School was named Conecuh County Basketball Coach of the Year by
the County Coaches Association. Covin’s team had an outstanding record this
year. The Yellow Jackets won 20 and lost only six and won three tournaments,
Repton High’s Thanksgiving Tournament, Lyeffion High’s Christmas Tournament and
the County Tournament. The Jackets finished second in the Area losing to Frisco
City in the finals. They also defeated Evergreen for the first time in 17
years.
Dick Longo, director of the
Southern Region of the Physical Fitness Institute of America, presented the
program at the meeting of the Evergreen Rotary Club last Thursday. Longo,
former head basketball coach at Tulane University, gave an exhibition of the
exercises the Institute developed for the physical fitness program for the
Apollo astronauts. A similar program is now available to the public that
requires only six minutes of exercise a day for the cardiovascular and body
contouring purposes. A number of overfed Rotarians signed up for the program
after the meeting.
Evergreen Rugby Team wins
10-6: The newly-formed Evergreen Rugby Team got off to a roaring start Sunday
afternoon by winning its first game, 10-6, over the University of West Florida
in Pensacola.
The local team is composed of
Player-Coach Jim Andrews, Bruce Hutcheson, Darwin Cook, Walker Scott, Stan
Johnson, Greg Still, Joe Andrews, Homer Holland, James Holland and Greer
Horton.
66 YEARS AGO
MAY 22, 1952
Baseball
Season Ends For Aggies: The baseball season for Evergreen High School’s team
has come to an end with six wins and five losses for this season. Lyeffion and
Castleberry were defeated by the Aggies twice and Monroeville and Brantley
account for the other two wins. Those who defeated the Aggies were Repton, T.R.
Miller and Brantley. Repton and T.R. Miller took two each from us. The wins
were divided equally between the pitchers, Lavon “Cotton” Quinley and Cullen
Edson. Heavy hitters for the Aggies were Ward Alexander, Cullen Edson, Donahue
Edson, Shirley Frazier and Roger Peacock.
91 YEARS AGO
MAY 26, 1927
Coach N.C. Henderson leaves
Thursday for his home in Starkville, Miss. We are sorry Mr. Henderson is not
coming back here next year. He has accepted a position with Investors Syndicate
Co. and will be located in Texas.
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