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Miss Hearne Recalls Roanoke Rapids Central School Era
Roanoke Rapids honors Miss Clara Hearne as Roanoke Rapids High School builds a new facility named for her. The piece lists former students from 1909, including Emmett Matthews Pendleton Grizzard Jim Thomason Jerry Hockaday and many others, recalling teachers and later pupils across grades.
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Old Central
Clara Hearne
Roanoke Rapids
Emmett Matthews
Pendleton Grizzard
Jim Thomason
Jerry Hockaday
Willie Grimmer
Eugenia Moody Webb
Irene Cannon Muller
Hurley King
Cammie Vaughan Spikes
Mary Taylor Elmore
Pauline Ashworth Cox
Isolande Mariner Taylor
Carrie Crutchfield Hale
Sam Sledge
Virginia Hart Sheldon
Charlena
Margie Cannon
Otelia Vaughan
Hazel Cobb
Irvine Cobb
Wilbur Anderton
Josie Moore
Agatha Moore
Earl Daughtry
F. M. Coburn
Basil Glover
David Harris
Minnie Johnson
Tillery
Richard Robertson
Elizabeth Robertson
Hazelwood
Marion
Sallie Saunders Hardy
Clyde Taylor
Letha Edwards Moody
Bruce Tillery
Mary
Sarah Towe
Sidney Matthews
Heston Rice
Ted Speight
Zollie Powell
Clayton Gurley
Ruth King
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