I am calling on all of my class members from the class of 72’…you guys just don’t realize what we bring to the table…remember we had to fight at that new school for recognition, cheerleaders, football, basketball, track, in and out of the classroom? Remember when we made the teacher cry in one of our classes at GHS that we just didn’t understand Black people? Remember I never wanted to start in basketball because the coach didn’t start me in the first game due to the pressure of the Athletic Boosters and parents, and they sent Mr. Ross Harrison to talk with me about not wanting to “ever” start for them…I felt I was only playing for myself and my dignity! I even wore an AFRO in protest in football and basketball… We didn’t come from E. E. Butler to sit on anybody’s bench!… We sat on the hill…having to protest to get things other students were already afforded…The coach was supposed to get me a scholarship to VA Tech or Grambling but never did…and had the nerve to tell me after…I could have gone to those schools… Joe Norman, Charles Young, Curtis Haynes, Sidney Gardner, Greg Young, Walter Rucker, James Davis, Robert Willingham, Doug Young, and Calvin Young are only a few of my fellow teammates…we had to fight for positions on the teams that we were already better than our counterparts…If you guys only knew what we faced every day besides trying to get an education…to be continued…