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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

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Friday, January 23, 2026

Gaffney's J Paul Beam and Todd Heifner's fourth grade teacher

Todd Heifner salutes his fourth grade teacher today on his facebook site. He writes well like Mark Morgan of Collinsville and Ft OPayne . Ft Payne native Randy Owen once told me "Writin's hard".

But it has seemed to make a good living for the likes of George Singleton which the late Willard Pate, a great English proff at Furman seemed to appreciate. She had a cat named Flannery and onother named Faulkner.

I wish I had auditted her Faulkner course and Crabtree's legendary Shakespeare course.

I woulda been too intimidated to have taken them for a grade. But my Furman friends Bob Carr, Sam Hodges and Charles Edwards all took the Shakespeare course and me a B

But I digress. Tod and his brother Kevin, an Arkansad kidney doctor with a good business model, have their idiosyncies but don't we all. Walking on eggshells here in case the code is misunderstood but here is my reply to Todd.

I have told this story before but it deserves retlling like ML King address in Montgomery at the end of the Selma march deserves an annual listen. I am proud to have memorized the Lowell poem

My senior year at Gaffney High a few weeks before a lte snow that toook the lives on Mr. Beam and his wife and daughter I was sharpening my pencils in Ms. Beams's advanced Match class in which did miserable, Ms Beam comes over and says: Stephen congratulations on your scholarship to Furman. Paul and I think you are a fine young man. We know how much Furman costs and how much your Father makes at a small Baptist church. Paul has a lot of friends there, so don't be shy about coming to us if money b becomes a problem.

She and Dr. Beam, school superintendent and an ordained Baptist minister would;ve been of my recent effort platformed at Good faith media on good Baptists of the 20th century

It's not much but it's something.

The grandson was also in the car. David Youngblood surivived and became a German and Math teacher at Greer High School. He played tuba in the Furman band. I need to look him up and have lunch.

Maybe Todd Heifner can join us

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