The Six-Day War of Jews and Arabs From Ground Zero in Cairo, Egypt by Chief Yeoman Charles Theodore Beersdorf, USN, Retired The weather was hot and dry that first day…
I loved high school. There with all my friends in the ebb and flow of small town life, I was somewhat insulated from the world outside and the worst thing…
Julie Rhodes Sumner took up the challenge to locate Sandra Stricklen, a former teacher who retired from Dora High School after twenty three years (she taught for a total of…
by Rick Watson(This story ran in the Birmingham Post Herald on April 14th of 2002) My daddy, rest his soul, taught me how to cuss. Not that he sat down…
It certainly was not reassuring to go into combat with men carrying rifles that have a tag affixed that read “combat unserviceable”; or with men wearing tennis shoes into a…
Home Folks Ruth BakerPublished September 12, 2002 8:43 PM CDTVirginia Teaford Murray celebrates her 90th birthday today. She has worn many “hats” in these fourscore years and ten. She was…
Dora students were blessed with many excellent teachers, but there is one, Josephine Andrews, that I like to refer to as “Mrs. Dora High School.”First of all, I remember her…
I graduated in 1951. I remember all too well what I wanted to do upon graduation I wanted to get married because I was dating my high school sweetheart and…
I talked to several people before I interviewed Mrs. Dorothy Ellison. Everyone I spoke with classified her as a great teacher… one that made a difference in their lives. Some…
I remember the first time I went to a football game at Watkins Field. I was in the fourth grade at Dora Elementary. It was a Friday night in September…..we…
