Reunion Reflections
The 1971 class of William B. Murrah High School will converge on Jackson, MS on June 24-25 to celebrate 40 years since graduation. It’s hard to imagine that I have not seen most of my classmates for over 40 years, with the exception of a brief visit at the 10 year reunion. It’s been fun looking at all of the old pictures, annuals, newspapers, stories and other memories that have been shared even though I was only at Murrah for a year and a half. We had a great time and didn’t even realize that the times were difficult in many ways. We experienced many memories during the first 18 years of our lives in elementary school, jr high as well as high school that kids of today probably could not even comprehend. We lived through the Vietnam War and Draft Cards that led to Draft Lotteries. We learned of President John F Kennedy’s assassination together along with Medgar Evers, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. We used typewriters and princess phones, never eve...