Robert Wilson:  

I vividly remember being on Vigor’s High School Bowl team in 1970. High School Bowl was a local TV show that showcased two two area high school teams in an academic challenge based on a general knowledge of history, geography and science. There were 4 guys on the team. The academic sponsors both women for some reason did not choose any girls to be on the team. Vigor was the only high school asked by the TV station to participate in 4 contests. The greatest challenge most weeks was the simple act of getting off campus. The school was on lockdown and all movement was tightly controlled and monitored. Getting a hall pass to get to my car and getting a car pass to leave the campus was intentionally difficult. The situation taught me the values of persistence, of planning and of deviousness. I graduated from South Alabama as a geologist and moved with my new wife to Duluth Minnesota for graduate work in geology. After grad school, we moved to Corinth MS where I wor...Expand for more