The 1963 Overton Rebel Yearbook

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Page 83

An Unusual Hair Style:
The day the senior photo was taken was the ONLY day I ever used this
hair style. I saw it on the cover of a magazine and on impulse tried to
duplicate it. It was also the only day I looked like Paul Anka. :)
 - by Larry Smith
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Michael Gavlick:
Michael Gavlick was a very interesting person. My first memory of him
was at South Park School, where he and one Carl Short were competing for
the honor of being Prince of the school. We occasionally played at the
drainage ditch that ran alongside Getwell, swinging out over the creek
on the grape-vines and dropping into the water. We were never friends,
but he surprised me when we attended Memphis State in '65-'66. He was a
friend of my friends, and actually remembered me from South Park, saying
that I was the guy he remembered always going home without my books and
still getting my homework done and making good grades while he had to
sweat to get his grades. :)

During the Memphis State days, he and some of my friends and I spent a
lot of time at various restaurants, drinking coffee, eating pie,
enjoying the waitresses, and talking about "important" things. He was a
great talker and could tell jokes perfectly. He had an Afghan hound for
a pet and his favorite hobby was speelunking (cave-exploring) in
Arkansas.

He majored in psychology at MSU and graduated in 2-1/2 years. I think he
joined the Marines after he graduated. If he did, he must have gone to
Viet Nam and I always wondered whatever happened to him.
 - by Larry Smith
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"Summertime":
Sandra Rowell was someone I never shared words or activities with. Other
than her performances and an occasional glimpse in the cafeteria, I
never saw her much.

Yet, she came back to life in my mind when my youngest daughter turned
out to have singing and stage talent and actually sang "Summertime" in a
school performance of her own.

The 'why' of it is simple. Though my daughter has a wonderful voice, as
Sandra did, what was the truly amazing talent was her stage presence.
Most of us know what stage-fright is, and it becomes a wonder when
someone comes along and doesn't seem to be bothered with it at all. The
ultimate dread is to forget your lines when you are on stage in front of
a real audience. The ultimate performer is someone who can stop for a
couple of seconds and find those lines in her mind again and resume as
though nothing had happened.

And, thus, the comparison. Though my daughter is like this, she has not
had the "big break" that would lead to a professional career. Though it
seemed that Sandra was like this, I do not recall and do not know if she
ever produced a record or performed on stage.

It is a tragic irony that a little country like Britain can produce such
giants as Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, and Charles Dickens, and
that a big country like ours does not have room for so many truly
talented performers like Sandra and so many others.
 - by Larry Smith
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George Wadlington:
This is another person that I never crossed paths with at all. As I
recall, he drove a Corvette and was quite a character around school.

What brought him to mind so many years after school was the tv program,
"Happy Days", and the character in that show named The Fonz. I guess
every school has such a person in its student body, but it seemed that
The Fonz matched up with George pretty closely.
 - by Larry Smith
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