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TEEN OF THE WEEK '
Coaching Career Looms
For Perry High Senior
By Joe Hiett
Valerie Ann Howard,
18-year-old Perry High School
senior, who recently com
puted her third season of
playing on the PHS Pan
therettes basketball team as a
standout rover, has aims of
continuing her association
with the sport as a coach after
graduation from college in
four years. Valerie, a 5’2”
rover for Coach Bob Morrow’s
Pantherettes, was a vital cog
in the team’s attack
Valerie is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Gene
Howard of 1412 Nancelon
Street. She has one sister-
Carol, 21; and two brothers-
Steve, 19 and David, 16. Also
included at the home is a
miniature collie named
"Skeeter”. The family attends
Perry Presbyterian Church.
Valerie’s waking hours have
revolved around sports for
some time, but she is quite a
student on the academic side
as well. The pert senior is
president of the PHS Future
Business Leaders of America,
vice president of the Junior
Civitans, and a member of the
Valerie Howard
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Beta Club. She admits to a B
plus average. Asked her
favorite class, Valerie
responds, "Why, sixth period
P.E., of course!”
Valerie has numerous
hobbies, most sports con
nected. But she does "do a
little embroidery.” She also
loves to water ski, swim, play
tennis, play touch football,
watch sports, and is “learning
to ride” horses.
In connection with her love
of the water, Miss Howard
has spent the last two sum
mers as a lifeguard at Perry
Country Club. Before that, she
was a lawyer’s assistant for a
short while.
Valerie will attend Georgia
Southern College in Statesboro
upon her graduation from
Perry High She has already
been accepted to the school,
and intends to major in
Physical Education, ‘Til
probably go out for the school
basketball team,” she says,
As a high school basketball
player, Valerie has been the
ballhandling "quarterback”
for the Pantherettes the past
two years. She has played
either stationary forward or
rover since the eighth grade.
She averaged over eight
points per game on the Perry
team loaded with firepower,
and seemed to specialize in
coming through in clutch
situations.
Valerie attended the Nor
man Carter Basketball Camp
the past two years, held at
Middle Georgia College in
Cochran, Last summer she
made the All-Star Team of the
school, which is an advanced
learning spot annually for
Georgia’s best female cagers.
(Carter was formerly coach of
the Taylor County national
champs who set a win streak
of 132 games, broken by
Morrow’s Pantherettes in
1972.)
This past season, Valerie set
some high goals for herself
before the season com
menced. During the Houston
County Invitational Christmas
Tournament at Warner
Robins High, the smallish I
rover was named Most
Valuable Player after leading
the Pantherettes to a 48-46
crown winning upset over the
mighty Demonettes. She
totaled 22 of Perry’s 48 points
in the contest.
Aside from basketball,
Valerie served as football
statistician for the football
Panthers the past two years.
In addition, she has played
tennis the past two years,
playing singles as soph, and
doubles as a junior.
Valerie says she would like
to begin her Coaching career
as a Junior High mentor. “I’d
like to gel some experience,
then be an assistant high
school coach,” she says. She
has already done intramural
coaching.
Pantherette Coach (and
PHS Athletic Director) Bob
Morrow says Valerie will
make a fine coach. “Val is one
of these who was always a
good shot- but she pushed
herself, worked hard and was
really conscientious. She
improved her abilities. The
fact that she was a 5’2” rover
on a team ranging in size from
5’7” to 6-0 speaks for her
capabilities.”
Move over, Bob Morrow, in
a few years, there will be
another outstanding public
school girls coach to contend
with in this area.
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Bob Hunt
Robert L. (Bob) Hunt is the
recipient of the 1974-75 Fort
Walton Beach, Fla., Jaycees
Distinguished Service Award.
The award presented at a
recent Community Awards
Banquet is given each year by
For Perry Courtl
Floodlight
Turned Dc
The Houston County
Commission last week turned
down, for the second time, a
request by Perry Mayor
James McKinley to floodlight
the front of the County
Courthouse. McKinley asked
for the lighting to make the
Courthouse “more attractive”
and to “improve the ap
pearance of the Business
District of downtown Perry”.
The Perry Mayor originally
made the request in a letter
dated October 21, 1974.
McKinley asked for the im
plementation of floodlight or
"washed” type lighting from
dusk until midnight. The letter
was hand carried by a
policeman to the Courthouse.
On November 6, 1974,
County Purchasing Agent
Miller Heath answered the
Mayor’s letter. Heath said he
had discussed the lighting
with a representative of the
Georgia Power Company.
Heath and the Ga. Power man
“decided the Courthouse
would need eight (8) mercury
vapor 1,000 watt lights at S3OO
each. Labor costs were
estimated at from $3,000 to
$3,500- totaling $5,400 to $5,900.
Heath presented his con
clusions to the November 5,
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Perryans 1
Make MGC
Dean's List
Dr. Fretwell G. Crider,
Academic Dean of Middle
Georgia College, has an
nounced that fifty Houston
County students have been
cited for scholastic
achievement during the
winter quarter.
To attain the Dean’s List, a
student must make an
average of at least 3,2 out of a
possible 4.0.
Students carrying a full
academic load who made the
Dean’s List for the winter
quarter are: Steven Ray
Bertram. Kirk Baxter Brown,
Marcus Alan Carroll, Peggy
Elaine Coody, Kenetha Ann
Dempsey. Betty Charline
Gardner, Aaron L. Gray,
Beverly J. Griffith, Elizabeth
Ann Hamilton, Robert Gill
Karkins, Russell Jones,
Donald James Jordan, James
Thomas Lester, Martha Kay
Logue, Francis E McDaniel,
Stephanie A McFetridge,
Terri J Morrissett, Lara Lee
Nix, James Richard Pierce,
William Henry Rape, Jr.,
Renee Redmond, Radonna
Dale Rodgers. Mary J. Savage
Fowler, Roger Dean Stanton,
Jr, Stephen Brent Strawn,
Karen Lee Taylor, Michael A
Wachowiak, and Thomas
Craig Wood all of Warner
Robins; Frederick H Fudge,
Susan Jane Levan, Paula Ann
Logue. Gerald Richard
Malone. Lauren Ruth
McLeod, and Marsha Denise
Russ all of Perry, Cathye
Elaine Manlooth and Rita
Angela West of Kathleen; and
Peggy Joyce Symner of
Bonaire
Students carrying less than
a lull academic load who
achieved averages of 3.2 or
better are Jack Alex Bell,
Jr, Jimmie S. Carter. Mitchel
L Davis, Jr, Barney Fay
Douglas. Harry George En
ckler, Sheri Linda Jordan
Marian Martin Harkins.
Michael R Osborne, Virgil
Harris Whitaker, and Kenneth
Ervin Young all of Warner
Robins; and Robert M. Akin.
William Ray Kitchens, and
Gary Wood of Perry,
Distinguished Service Award
Former Perryan Honored
By Jaycees In Florida
the Jaycees to the individual
selected for outstanding
contributions to the com
munity.
Hunt, a local builder and
developer, has his own real
estate company.
Mr. Hunt was cited by the
house
f Request
Dwn Again
1974, County Commission
meeting According to Heath’s
letter to McKinley, "Due to
the energy crisis and the fact
that this is not provided for in
this year’s budget, the
Commissioners decided to
postpone a decision on this
proposal indefinitely.”
On March 10, McKinley
again wrote the County
Commission., He said he
requested “reconsideration to
be given to the lighting, at
least to the extent of the north i
side of the Courthouse. I
continue to feel that this will
improve the appearance” of
downtown area.
Last week the board qf
commissioners again rejected
McKinley’s request. Com
missioner Alton Tucker
reportedly said that elec
tricity was too expensive to
use on such a project. Ac
cording to Coumy Clerk
Lamar Brown, the board said
they would consider the
project "when and if the rest
of the downtown starts
beautifying their fronts.”
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Perry, Warner Robins and Centerville
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Jaycees for his many ac
tivities which include the
immediate past president of
the Homebuilders Association
of Okaloosa County and is now
serving as a state director for
his association and has earned
the award as being a lifetime
Spike member; a member of
the Okaloosa County Board of
Adjustment; Okaloosa County
Mental Health Association
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where he serves as Ways and
Means chairman; board
member of the Northwest
Florida Boy Scouts of
America; member of the local
Kiwanis Club serving as past
treasurer and membership
chairman; Heart Fund
Chairman.
He is a member of the Cinco
Baptist Church where he
serves on the building com-
mittee; the Ft. Walton Beach
Chamber of Commerce and
Host Committee; member of
the Krewe of Bowlegs; Fort
Walton Beach Yacht Club;
Quarterback Club; and a
commissioner of the Nor
thwest Florida Regional
Housing Authority and a past
member of the Fort Walton
Beach Jaycees.
Hunt, known as “Pete” in
his home town of Perry, is the
son of Mrs. C.L. Hunt and the
late H.J. Hunt of Perry. He is
a 1961 graduate of Perry High
School. His wife, Kay, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Elmo Coleman of Perry. Tliey
have two children, Kimberly,
age 10, and Loran, Jr., age 6.
They have resided in Fort
Walton Beach for the past 10
years.
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