Mary Lee McKee Clark from Chilhowie, Virginia; Mahlon Robinson,
Mary Sue Allison McCrary and McDonald Clark from Glade Spring, Virginia and
Marie Keys Goodman from Kingsport, Tennessee: “Our teacher is backstage”
The quintet,
all in their late sixties, is the entire graduating class of the Glade Spring
High School class of 1915, celebrating their 50th reunion. Their
teacher, Leticia Yost Prevette, has a secret of her own: “MY teacher is backstage.” Dr. Leonidas Littleton taught Mrs. Prevette at
Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.
Left unsaid is that teachers of the day were typically young women not
much older than their students. In fact,
there was only a six year age difference between Mrs. Prevette and her charges.
Dr. X, who recently earned a PhD in Mathematics: I’m quarterback
for the Cleveland Browns football team”
Frank Ryan led the Browns to an NFL
championship in 1964, the highlight of a seven-year career (to this point) during
which time he was also pursuing his doctorate from Rice University in
Texas. Ryan would play a few more
seasons with the Browns before retiring from football and pursuing his second
career. Among his accomplishments was
bringing the US House of Representatives into the computer age by playing a key
role in creating the first electronic voting system for that body.
Special guest Don DeFore, who plays a
lawyer on the sitcom Hazel (1961-66),
brings a real-life case for the panel to argue in front of an eleven-person
jury pulled from the studio audience. (See
E560
) DeFore is introduced as still being a part
of the series Hazel. However, NBC had recently cancelled the
program. CBS would pick it up for an
additional final season, but DeFore would not return. Hazel became the housekeeper for a new,
younger couple.
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