Time Is Passing

Letters to the Editor, Published: August 19, 2009
More than 50 years have passed since we graduated from Jakin High School in Jakin, Ga. The old school is gone, the gymnasium is gone and all that remains are trees and weeds.
Three classes — 1956, 1957 and 1958 — attended a reunion, and we all agreed that we still have our memories and they will last forever. This is why we have class reunions, our wonderful memories, and to see old friends.
If those memories are still in your heart, you can just drive by where the old Jakin High was once located and you can still see the silhouette of that grand old building, the outline of old rooms where we learned and made friends and, in many areas of our lives, patterned ourselves after one or more of those dedicated teachers. I even named my first daughter, Elizabeth, after one of my dear teachers.
We did have a few of our dedicated teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Davis, Mrs. Sybil Still, Mrs. Lois Cannon and Mr. C.L. Brooks, who is 98 and was the principal in the early 1950s. Thanks to Mr. Brooks and to all the wonderful teachers who taught at Jakin High for showing daily that you cared. I feel blessed by attending that little school way down in Southwest Georgia.  Jake Cannon, Dothan, AL