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The 40’s birthed the full-length animated movie industry. Examples are:
1. Fantasia
2. Snow White
3. Pinocchio
4. Song of the South. One of my favorite sayings comes from this movie, “Please don’t throw me in the briar patch”. Google it.
5. Bambi
6. Superman
7. Dumbo (1941)
In recent years the genre has been revived:
1. Dumbo again (2019)
2. Buzz Lightyear
3. Pixar
4. Winnie the Pooh
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Finding Nemo
7. Toy Story
8. Lego Movie
9. And many others
My junior year in High school we did something that has never been duplicated in Georgia High School athletic history. We won the state championship in 5 sports, football, baseball, track, golf and tennis and the basketball team lost in the state championship final game. This was all in the top-rated high school classification. I was 6’2” and 140 pounds. I warmed the bench in football but was a contributor on the track team.
My teammates Pat Dye and Tommy Ashe (both earned football scholarships to UGA) were on the track team and both were experienced chew tobacco users and convinced me to take a chaw. They were seniors and me a lowly junior, so I was happy to join in the fun. In my entire track career, I never had a meet and didn’t score a point, until this one. I apparently swallowed some of the juice and I was sick as a dog. I never told Coach Bolton that the leaders led me down the primrose path. You don’t rat on your teammates.
My senior year my track and football coach was Kermit Perry, a great college hurdler and fresh out of the University of Georgia, where he also played football. That made us close in age and therefore we became friends as life progressed. I learned a lot about being a hurdler and did well in high school, but it ended there. I wasn’t real fast and you can’t teach speed. Kermit had a couple of cheers that I have never forgotten.
1. Sam Houston Institute of Technology – Give me a S; Give me a H; Give me an I; give me a T – What have you got
2. Norfolk, Va. high school – We don’t smoke; We don’t drink; Norfolk, Norfolk Yeah.