WHEN & WHERE
To get your pictures on this page just send the picture and tell us who it is, where it is, and when it was. A few lines of text to go with the picture will help us to understand more about it. If I don't receive pictures of you, the readers, I will keep feeding you with Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, pictures. I don't think you want to be bored with that sort of thing. We want past students but also like to know about past student family members.
Here we have Dr. Willis Clem "Pookie" Maples, Class of 1959, lecturing in Poland. Clem has lectured internationally for many years now and seems to be in great demand in Poland and Mexico.
At right you will see Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, as a very young soldier at III Corps Headquarters located at Fort Hood, Texas in 1954.
At left you will see Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952. The picture was taken in Danville, Yell County, Arkansas in 1941. What appears to be a scab over the right eye is a scab over the right eye. A fellow by the name of Junior Phillips caused this wound with a wet corn cob. Corn cob fights were not unusual in those days.
This picture was taken near Danville, Yell County, Arkansas in 1942. The father of Billy Charles Covey, Charles Evert Covey, was somewhere serving in the navy and sent us navy type clothing and a watch. It was a proud day in Danville. From left to right you can see Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, Florence Irene Nicholson, Class of 1946, and Billy Joe Covey, Class of 1950. Florence is holding Bobby Joe Covey, the son of Foster Moore Covey and Lucille Covey. Bobby Joe was born with defects that could never be corrected. He, then, was never a student at Watson school.
At right you will see Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. If he looks skinny, it is for good reason. He is on R&R from Chuong Thien Province, Duc Long Distirct, where he was an advisor in Vietnam. He arrived there weighing 212 pounds. After seven months you now see him at 156 pounds. Walking in wet rice paddies in hot weather with 75 or 80 pounds of radio, extra batteries, ammunition and weapons tend to pull the pounds off in a hurry. This was better than honeymoon time. Shoot, it was honeymoon time.
I think this qualifies as now and then...then actually. This is Lois Rowe Marlow, Class of 1955 with husband Charles "Chuck" and son Ernie. The picture was made in 1960 or 1961 in Skulthorpe, England.
I can't tell you when this picture was made but for certain it was "then". This is Toy "Lit" Humphreys in a boxing pose. This writer can recall Big and Lit bringing boxing gloves to school and putting on a display of boxing skills just through the windows from Ms. Maxson's classroom. In short, they did it on the dirt baseball/basketball court behind the school building. This is obviously not at school because it isn't on a dirt basketball court or baseball field. I will guess that this picture was made around 1949 or 1950.
Since posting this picture I received a note from Audie Hawkins, Class of 1953. It seems that she has a picture of her husband standing in front of this same building in either 1950 or 1952. It is a small world. It also proves to your webmaster that you like this format. I think I will stay with it until I hear otherwise from you, the reader. I assure you that the headquarters of III Corps is now much different than this. I saw it in a couple of years ago and should have snapped a "Now & Then" shot but I didn't. My life has been a ton of "hadoughta's" with very few "I done its",
This is Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, at the Fort Hood, Texas driving range. I decided to post this picture after hearing from Audie Hawkins, Class of 1953, that her husband had served at Fort Hood in 1950 and 1951. I feel certain that he was on or about the range many times during his stay at Fort Hood.
This is Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, still on the driving range. Notice the form! I don't think Arnold Palmer or Tiger Woods will be trying to copy this any time soon. The picture was taken in 1954. This is the last one of these you will see. It is just another shot of Fort Hood for Audie Hawkins, Class of 1953, and her husband who served at Fort Hood in 1950 and 1951.
Willis Clem Maples, Class of 1959, in Poland. No, he is not presenting the roses, they are being presented to him. Clem visits Poland for presentations on optometry each year.
This is William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton at the Watson Fish Fry in 1979. The suit and tie is not really called for at the fish fry as it isn't all that formal.
This picture goes back several years. I suspect it was taken between the middle fifties and late fifties. I do know this. It was Borlands Cafe and Pop Watson would have starved to death had the cafe not been there. At least that is what I have been told. I think maybe Pop Watson told me that.
The picture at left is Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952 as he appeared in this 1951 photograph that was taken in Watson, Arkansas.
Here we have Thurman Gilbreth at the old McKennon Cotton Gin in Watson, Arkansas on March 20, 2010. Many years ago trucks and trailers loaded with cotton would be lined up for hours before they would at last be next up before having the cotton sucked up and into the ginning process. The end product would be a bale of cotton weighing approximately 500 pounds.
The "Who" is Willis Clem "Pookie" Maples, Class of 1959. The "When" is 2010 and the "Where" is in Poland. Clem travels to Poland for presentations on optometry each year.
The gentleman at the left of the picture is none other than Willis Clem "Pookie" Maples, Class of 1959. Clem travels to Poland regularly for presentations in the field of optometry. He also travels to Mexico and other countries for the purpose of sharing his knowledge with others.
Here we have H. D. Spainhouer Class of 1960 with his wife, Carolyn Rupe, Class of 1962, at his left. They are seen here at the 50th Annual Watson Fish Fry on 20 March 2010 in Watson, Arkansas.
At right is Angela Jane Hudson Covey, wife of Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, as she appeared in the County Sussex in England in the year 1940.
In the picture at left stands Angela Jane Hudson Covey, wife of Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952. This picture was taken in the County Sussex, in England in 1940
Willis Clem "Pookie" Maples, Class of 1959, appears to be enjoying himself during his recent trip to Poland in connection with a presentation on optometry.
Willis Clem Maples on his recent trip to poland. The year was 2010.
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Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952, in school in Danville, Yell County, Arkansas. This picture was taken and was a school picture in 1941.
I normally like to insert individual pictures. This posting, however, calls for the posting of both pictures as one. You see, come December this couple will have been together for sixty years following the taking of the picture on the right. The picture at left shows the couple as they appear today. Frances Maxson Roberts, Class of 1942, furnished the following, "Picture at right of Noble and Frances Roberts was taken on their first date, December 31, 1950, near Wargo Landing. The photographer was Jane McIntyre, later to become Mrs. Abram Loe.
This picture could easily have been placed on the History page of this web site. The When and Where page will serve just as well. This is a picture of Billy Chrles Covey, Class of 1952, at the age of three. That makes the year 1938 and it was in the summer I am told. The photograph was taken in Amarillo, Texas.
The lady on the right of this picture is Lois Rowe Marlow, Class of 1955. She is holding Neil Foster Covey, son of Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952 and Angela Jane Hudson Covey of Hove, Sussex, England. The lady on the right is Angela Jane Covey holding Ernie Marlow, the son of Lois Rowe Marlow, Class of 1955, and Charles Ernest Marlow. The picture was made in the home of the Marlows in Skulthorp, England. The Covey's had driven up from Lindfield, Sussex, England for a visit. This visit was made in 1960. I'm danged if this wasn't taken some fifty years ago and could properly be placed on the "History" page.
This is Jane Monday Wood Class of 1951. The picture was for the Richmond, California class reunion in 1996.
Angela Jane Hudson Covey and Billy Charles Covey, Class of 1952. The children are Mark Evert Covey, Neil Foster Covey and Deborah Mary Covey. The picture was taken at the Fort Sill, Oklahoma NCO Club in 1965.