Name That Alumnus! - September 2002
Previous Editions
Below are two pictures from our school's past. If you recognize any of
these people, email us at
NameThatAlumnus@PattersonSchool.org.
Tell us the year the picture was taken, and the names of the people
in the photo. Don't forget to give your name so we can give you
credit! Winning entries will be added to the bottom of this page.
"Senior Class Officers"
Answer: From 1966 yearbook, page 11: Seated, left to right:
Leigh Ford, Vice President; Tommy Guminski, President;
Billy Bruce, Secretary. Standing: Sam Hamerschlag, Sergeant at Arms;
Charlie Terry, Chaplain; John Lutz, Treasurer.
"Field Hockey"
Answer: From 1986 yearbook, page 72:
First Row: Mary Pierce, Mary Allison, Pam Blankenship,
Jennifer Porter. Back Row: Lucia Bradham, Joy Mullis,
Jayne Gott, Michelle Wiggers, Sarah Everitt,
Maria Kline, Suzanne Hoag, Janette Branks, not pictured:
Coach Cam Riddle.
September 5, 2002
Thanks to George Bryant, who wrote:
These are the class of 1966 officers. Arthur
Hammerschlag (valedictorian) is on the top left. I
still have his psychology book. Tommy Gminski,
(Arkansas razorbacks) who was one of the top football
players that year, is middle bottom. Is that Mike
Nixon from Hickory on the bottom right? The other 3
faces are very familiar but the names escape me.
Would have to get out my 1966 yearbook - 36 years is a
long time!
George R. Bryant (class of 1969)
September 6, 2002
Many thanks again to George Bryant, who wrote:
Last history
lesson from me (for awhile) with a correction. Mike
Nixon is on the bottom left - a 1966, senior class
officer. The individuals in the class of 1966 were
all gentlemen (all really nice), while the class of
1967 was at the opposite extreme, "wild" and
constantly getting in trouble; I think Cap Wiese
really aged from 1966 to 1968. Long hair, Vietnam,
drugs with the concomitant experimentation and
associated overdoses, teenage rebellion,
assassinations (JFK in 63 [7th grade for me], Bobby
Kennedy in June, 68 [beginning of Summer Break in
Myrtle Beach] and MLKing in April, 68 [beginning of
Spring Break from Patterson with the associated
riots], acid-rock and hard-edged music due to the
Rolling Stones (and their ilk) - all started kicking
in - no more crew cuts! At one point in the summer of
1965, the top five hits were all Beatles - more of the
same in 1966 plus the popularized drugs associated
with them and the Stones, Haight-Ashbury, and Vietnam.
Drug use spiraled in this country in 1967, although
Patterson was still a safe haven, sequestered far out
in the "boonies". Didn't Cap finally retire in May,
1968 with Headmaster Finch taking over my senior year?
The class of 1968 was classy; the class of 1969,
eclectic (but we all wore tuxedos for the yearbook
picture); and the class of 1970, enigmatic and
interesting. Those in 1971 to 1974 were already a
different and younger set of individuals, a by product
of the hippie generation with Disco beginning in the
summer of 1973 (and ending in the summer of 1980 but
still played endlessly in bars) coupled with the end
of Vietnam and culminating with Watergate, the oil
crisis and embargo (with gas prices shooting up from
$0.29 to over $1.00 in just a few months with gas
rationing, shortened gas station hours, and long gas
lines), the resignation of Nixon/Agnew, and the great
recession stock market crash of 1973-74. But, enough
history from me. Where are the rest of the alums from
this era with additional "historical" memories of
Patterson and the world to share? Are any of them
still alive and computer literate?
George R. Bryant (1969) Thanks for the memories.
September 27, 2002
Thanks to Paul Stanley, who wrote:
Okay, time to play Name That Alumnus:
First row is Mary Pierce, Mary Allison, Pam Blankenship, and Jennifer Porter.
Back Row is Lucia Bradham, Joy Mullis, Jayne Gott, Michelle Wiggers, Sarah Everitt,
Maria Kline, Suzanne Hoag, and Janette Branks.
My memory is not that great, just happened to have my Senior year Annual here
at Fort Stewart.