Profile: Julie Watson McCann

Julie Watson McCann graduated in 1985 from Dora High School, and she’s packed a lot of living in past 19 years. Julie is a certified scuba diver, she worked as…

Basketball Revisited

by Asa Faith Bobo RandolphBasketball season – a special time of the year – especially for this 1961 Dora High School graduate. When I watch basketball on television, and hear…

Four Medals & The Battle at Abandoned Fire Support Base Maureen

Every Veteran’s Day is an important day, and this year is no different. Our country is at war and our troops are engaged in fierce fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.…

Ode to Billy Joe

By Jerry GrammarI find it ironic that the song came out a few years after the death of a dear friend who bore an almost identical name. Billy Joe McMurray…

Coach Coston Remembered

DON’T BE SORRY BE RIGHT!If you ever had Coach Jim Coston as a teacher, you heard those words. If you ever felt like you had made a mistake and said…

The Alma Mater

Fay Thomas Bobo graduated from Dora High School in 1941. She began college at the University of Alabama in the fall of ’41, but then war broke out and she…

Interview with Jack Britton Sullivan, Author

I was surprised and delighted recently when I got an email from Glenn Allen Bobo which said “did you realize that another writer that graduated from Dora has a book…

Summertime Memories of Dora

The following story is one sent to writer Dale Short by Faye Bobo after an article he wrote for The Daily Mountain Eagle about summers in the south. It relates…

Profile: Ricky Phillips

Ricky Phillips, Dora High School Class of 1972 is beginning a new and exciting phase of his life. He’s launching his own business. Ricky has worked for CAPSCO Industries in…

What We Were Saying in 1957

I get a lot of stuff in email. A lot of things I file away to use later but this one was so neat, I decided to use it. “I’ll…