Sisters Elizabeth

Redwine Ramsey and Henrietta Redwine Dennis are among Fayette County natives

celebrating the 75th anniversary of Fayette County High School.

Elizabeth,

"Boo", 89, proudly said that her graduating class of 1929 was

the first graduating class to wear caps and gowns. "I was rather

disappointed, though," she said, "as I had my heart set on a

pretty new white dress."

There were

32 in her graduating class and fewer than a dozen of them had started

first grade with her.

The school

was a two-story frame building that now houses Fayetteville City Hall.

There were

no yearbooks or class trips.

Her principal

was Clayton Peacock and the superintendent of schools was L. M. Lester.

Her favorite teachers were a Mr. Roberts, who taught Latin, and Bessie

Lee Prather, who taught history.

Her sister,

Henrietta, "Retta", 82, graduated in the class of 1936. She

started high school in the two-story brick building, now City Hall, but

attended the last three years in a two-story brick building that is now

the Board of Education building. The school faced east.

She remembers

about 40 or so students graduating with her. She served as the valedictorian

of her class.

Favorite teachers

she remembers are sisters Margaret Rucker, who taught civics, and Julie

Rucker, who taught French.

Both ladies

remember two things there was a pot belly stove in each room with which

to keep warm, and that the "senior year" was just through the

11th grade.