Letter To The Editor – Sep. 29, 2011

Dear Editor,

  We are fortunate to have a caring and sensitive person like Oxford lawyer, Joe Pegram, who can keep us aware of important things like the passing of an old friend, Wayne Simpson. Joe has always kept up with, and has frequently come to the aid of, old friends, classmates, and teammates from his WVHS days.
 
  Wayne and I were competitors on the basketball court way back then and he guarded me in the last high school game I ever played. I played for Camp Ground, now long gone. Joe Pegram and the others mentioned, Crumby, Anthony, McCullar, and Samuels, all played in that game, also. Water Valley won, of course. This would have been in February, 1953, and was played in the old gym, located where City Hall is now.

  I must say that there was nothing Joe could have said about Wayne, that he would have appreciated more, than relating how he caught the winning pass against Olive Branch. Anyone who has ever participated in sports has had hopes for at least one “moment of glory”—the 80 yard touchdown run thing—and that winning reception was Wayne’s. I know Wayne would be highly pleased that Joe remembered and passed along his “Magic Moment” to all of us who knew him.

  While I’m handing out kudos, I want to give praise to Paula Denham, who writes the Sand Hill Church News. She is a lovely young woman who is not “ashamed of the gospel” and, through her church news article is able to witness to anyone reading the Herald. There are possibly a few pastors out there who could use a dose of her spiritual bravado!

  /s/Joe Lowe