Melvin Young:  

ey, so was I. I don't think we kissed any more that year. I was scared that Mrs. Meyer would catch us. And who knows, we may have been expelled, whipped, stripped and run through the middle of town by screaming parents or something scary like that. Remember that corporal punishment was legal back then. I was always told that if I got a lickin' at school, I would get another when I came home-never got one at Fortescue--i was too scared to. Let me see now. My sister Phyllis always whipped me when I teased my baby sister Lydia. My late brother Billy LeRoy always whipped me when I came home with my shirts always torn off. And my brother Cecil whipped me when I didn't do the chores or didn't do them right. My brother Kenneth wasn't tough enough, but he did try it once, but only once. In all reality my father grew Poplar trees so my mother and sister Phyllis would have enough switches to whip me. LOL. true, and i swear on a stack of Bibles. My mother whipped me after she made me lay over a chair. My dad didn't whip often, but when he did, he used a rubber hose--and he would forget to stop. Man that hurt, and the bruises on my butt and legs were awful. That is a full blooded German for you. Other than that my father would give me the back of his hand and knock me clear across the room. He had huge hands; size 18 ring. Five of us kids are still living. My Brother Billy LeRoy died in October 2011. Mother and Daddy have been gone a long time, but a day doesn't go by that I don't think of them. Our Class of '62 at Craig High School celebrated our 50th in 2012. Wow. That sure was fun.