Freddie Sexton:  

I started out as an eagle at Allison Street School. I played basketball for them and numerous other playground activities. I remember that all the guys could not wait for it to snow so we could play tackle football on the playground. Some of my fondest memories were there. I can remember Billy Taylor, David Hewitt, David Crocker, Earl Warman, Barry Dillion, Judy Patterson, Vaya Wiseman and Debbie Glisson very clearly and probably others if I thought real hard. Then we moved to the Junior High. I lived right across the street from there and it was great getting the extra sleep and doing all the science projects in class. This is when I started having problems with some of the teachers and met my best friend Curt Stonecipher. Curt is now a thriving proprietor and owns his own restaurant in Huntsville, Tennessee. If you are ever that way stop in and say hi. It is not far from hwy 27 just off of interstate 75. If you would like to contact him let me know and I will hook you up. Then we went into high school and I got along with the teachers for the most part. I played a little basketball and football but as you all may know politics was involved so you did what you could. I can clearly remember my friends being Don Gay, Doug Wienheimer, Kelvin Patterson, Scott Harris, Tim Alsip, Dino Gibson, Doug Hayes, Dottie Chin, Rhonda Sester, Shelly Misch Rick Slusher, Dale Johnson, and others to a long list. After Graduating High School I went right to work for General Motors and as much of you know became a head. Ludes, coke, pot. you name it. I lost a lot of respect for that but met a lot of friends as well. Kirk Hershberger was like my body guard for all my dealings. After an announcement of a long layoff and strike I went through GMI Tech and became a Supervisor at the GM in Norwood, in what was in no doubt the strongest Union in...Expand for more