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SECr,ON" uke ri&uaA - /Journal THURSDAY. MAY 29, 1980
JJedicated To John Pecora
Banquet Honors Hoke's Top Athletes Leaders
Hoke County High School's athe
letes of the past year who were
judged best in the sports were
^tonored the night of May 20 at the
School's annual Athletic Banquet in
MacDonald Gymtorium.
Sharon McMillan was the top
winner, receiving three Most
Valuable (player) awards. These
were in track, volleyball and
basketball. Among the men.
Jeremy Simmons won two ; the JetT
Upchurch Award in wrestling and a
Coaches Award in football.
Center Harold Thompson re
ceived the Most Valuable award in
boys' basketball, and his coach.
Ron Parsons announced Thompson
also had been named to the
Converse National High School
Basketball All America team. Par
sons presented Thompson with the
school's Most Valuable trophy and
the plaque of his All America
selection.
Thompson will start at North
Carolina State University in the
1980 tall term but before then,
after graduating from Hoke this
spring, he will play in the North
/4 7" HEAD TABLE At the head table at the annual Hoke County High School Athletic Banquet are. L-R. the
Rev. and Mrs. Tex Deal on. Hoke Hif>h Principal Dr. Lenwood Simpson. County Schools Supt. Ra: Autry. Henry
David Smith. I9H0-H1 president of the Hoke County Blaster Cluh. Mrs. Noah Hendrix, wile of' the 1979-HO
Booster Cluh president. Mrs. Simpson, the wife of the principal. Irene Autry . wile of the superintendent und
Muxine Colston, wife of Billy Colston. Hoke High s director of athletics. Colston and Hendrix also had seats at the
head table but were elsewhere in the McDonald Gymtorium when this picture was 'aken. | Staff photo by Bill
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^HONOR A THLETES -- These Hoke County High School students are among th< >sc win > received the top awards
at the animal Athletic Banquet the night of May 20. The picture was taken shortly alter the banquet, held in
McDonald Gynitoriuin at the school, ended. The students are on the gymiorium stage. Rear. L-R ?? Jeremy
Simmons. Darrell Criiinartie. Harold Thompson. Charles Miller. Paul Locklear. Tony Gore. Jay Headen. James
McMillan, Chris McDuffie. and Anthony Brown. Front. L-R ?? Mack Lewis. David Blue. Cathy Sappenfield.
Karen Denton. Angela Thomas. Allison Poole. Sharon McMillan. Janice Blacksliear. Rhonda Atkinson, and
Michelle Lcggctt. The others, not in the picture, are Darry Crouch. Llvis Purcell. James Galherth. and Dehorah
Love. \Stalf photo by Bill Liiulau |.
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WAITING FOR BANQUET ?? This picture was taken shortly before the Hoke High Athletic Banquet started.
L-R. Mrs. John Pecoru. Hoke head basket hall coach Ron Parsons. John Harris. Jr.. and his father, a former Hoke
High football atach. and Noah Hendrix. 1979-80 president of the Hoke County Booster Club. Mrs. Pecora 's
husband, who retired last year as the school 's director of athletics, him honored at the banquet.
Carolina East - West AH Star
basketball game for the East this
summer.
At the banquet also Thompson
was among the athletes recognized
as outstanding runners on the cross
country team.
John Pecora. retired Hoke High
athletic director and former head
football coach, received a special
honor in appreciation of his service
to the school, and the banquet was
dedicated to him.
Pecora retired last year after
undergoing heart - bypass surgery.
He had served as director of
athletics for six years and as head
football coach from 1965 till he was
named to the post.
Pecora was presented a plaque
by Hoke County Schools Supt. Ra*
Autry and. as a special gift, a wind
? breaker type jacket. Pecora's
successor. Billy Colston, also a
teacher and a former coach of the
girls' track team, also participated
in the banquet program.
Special honors also were
awarded to Drs. Riley Jordan and
Robert Townsend, for their services
to the athletes; Noah Hendrix. 1978
- 80 president of The Hoke County
Booster Club; and Charlie Hottel.
for his long, consistent loyal
support of Hoke athletics.
The awards were presented by
Dr. Lenwood Simpson. Hoke High
Principal. Mrs. Townsend received
the award for her husband, who
was unable to attend the banquet.
The winners of the awards for the
athletes, in addition to Miss
McMillan. Simmons and Thomp
son are:
Football: Sam's Award -- Darryl
Crouch. Most Valuable -- Elvis
Purcell. Coaches Award (two given)
-? James McMillan.
Boys' track: Coaches Award --
Paul Locklear.
Basketball: Most Valuable -
Harold Thompson. Coaches Award
?- James Galberth.
Girls' volleyball: Coaches Award
-- Janice Blackshear.
Girls' track: Coaches Award *?
Michelle Leggett.
Wrestling: Coaches Award (but
termed by Coach Phil Summa
"Most Valuable") ?* Darrell
Cromartie.
Charies Miller.
Most Valuable -- David Earl
Blue. Coaches Award ?? Anthony
Brown.
Girls' tennis: Most Valuable -
Cathy Sappenfield.
Girls' softball: Most Improved --
Karen Deaton. Coaches Award --
Angela Thomas.
Boys' golf: Most Valuable --
Chris McDutYie (he also placed
second in the 1980 Sectional
Tournament).
Girls' golf: Most Valuable -
Allison Poole.
Cross-country: Most Valuable ?
Paul Locklear.
Varsity cheerleaders: Most Out
standing -- Ronda Atkinson.
Special awards also established
for athletes who have earned varsity
letters in three sports were pre
sented to Mack Lewis, among the
boys: and Miss McMillan. Shelia
McRae. and Marian Monroe. The
awards were presented by Colston.
Lewis won his varsity letters in
cross ? country, basketball, and
HOSORt'D ?? John Pecttra |n^Ar). retired Hoke County High School
dinxtor o f athletics and former head football coach, receiws from County
Schools Supt. Raz Autry a plaque as an expression of appreciation for his
IJ years of service to the school and its students. The annual Hoke High
Athletic Banquet of May 20. ai which the presentation h?as made, was
dedicated to Pecora. [Staff photo by Bill Lindau).
COACHES. WIVES ? Shown at the Athletic Banquet are. clockwise,
starting in the foreground Melissa McGougan. Ron Parsons. Mrs. Clyde
|S?im/>v| Campbell, her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradshaw. and
Chery l Farmer. At the table later was Parson s wife. At the table also but
off camera are /m>n' Farmer, husband of Mrs. Farmer: and Hoke High
Assistant Principal M.H. Williams. Melissa McGougan is assistant Hoke
High girls' track and volleyball coach. Parsons is head couch of the Hoke
boys ' btisketball squad and is an assistant football coach. Campbell'. Hoke s
head football coach till this spring, is head football coach of Lees-McRae
College. Bradshaw is Campbt'll s successor at Hoke High. Mrs. Farmer is
Hoke girls mlleyball and tennis coach. [Staff photo bv Bill Ltndau |.
baseball. Misses Monroe and
McRae won theirs in basketball,
volleyball, and sofiball.
The banquet honored the high
school's A50 athletes who par
ticipated this past school year in the
school's 15 sports. The athletes
ranged from freshman through
varsity.
Among the people in the banquet
audience were Hoke High's in
coming head football coach,
Charles Bradshaw; and besides
Pecora. former head football
coaches Clyde (Soupy) Campbell,
new head coach at Lees-McRae
College whom Bradshaw is suc
ceeding; John Harris, who joined
the University of North Carolina -
Chapel Hili grid staff as an
assistant three days before the
banquet, after a season as an
assistant at Marshall College; and
Bill Cameron, ex - Hoke High and
University of Tennessee player now
farming in Hoke County and
serving on the Hoke County Bourd
of Education. Campbell succeeded
Harris in the spring of 1979.
Other members of the county
school board at the banquet were
Dr. Jordan, the board chairman:
and Mrs. Townsend. the board vice
chairman.
Campbell presented the football
trophies and certificates. The boys'
track awards were presented by
Jack Southern, assistant coach.
Campbell was head coach of the
track squad also.
The awards in the other sports
and in varsit\ cheerleading were
presented by their coaches: Audrey
Long, girls' track, basketball and
volleyball: Ron P;>rsons.~~boys"
basketball; Summa. wrestling and
boys' tennis; Mike Lassiter. base
ball; Cheryl Farmer, girls' tennis
and softball; David Locklear. boys'
and girls' golf; Robert Taylor, cross
country; and Faye Davis, varsity
cheerleaders.
Some of the diners during the annual Athletic Banquet at Hoke High.