Stuart had earned a fine reputation as a swimming pool contractor in Jackson before his death from cancer in the early  ’80s. He and his wife had three daughters who were “really nice kids,” according to longtime (now retired) teacher Cile McNeill Werkheiser, who offered that as a trained, professional judgment.

David Kendrick Brooks, Jr. died June 7, 1997, after a four-month fight with cancer. At the time of his death, he had gained the rank of associate professor of Counseling and Human Development Services at Kent State University where he had been on the faculty since 1990.  He was also the coordinator of the master’s degree programs in School Counseling and Community Counseling.

David was always politically aware and active, but his focus shifted from political affairs to professional activity within his department, his college, his university, and the professional associations of which he was an active member. He chaired or was a member of numerous committees at Kent State, authored or co-authored 11 articles in professional journals, co-authored five training manuals or reports. In addition, he presented over 120 programs at state, regional, and national conventions. David also served as president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. David was in demand as an expert witness before state legislative panels when issues involving counselor licensure were being considered -- all this during a short 13-year university career.

In the five years since David’s death, two of his daughters have graduated from college with honors -- Laurel from Wellesley College, Class of 1998, and Caroline from the University of the South, Class of 2001. After a two-year stint as an admissions counselor at Hiram College in northeast Ohio, Laurel returned to the South for graduate work at Emory University in film studies. Caroline lives in Arlington, VA, and works for a DC law firm as a legal assistant. His two younger daughters, twins Amanda and Beverly, are sophomores in high school in Kent, OH. His wife Bette has completed all the course work for the doctorate, has passed written and oral comprehensive exams, and is writing her dissertation on how teachers make sense of curriculum and curriculum innovations.
                                                         —Bette Brooks

In 1998, I was in Jackson and visited David senior over the weekend. He is still running a successful oil and gas exploration and drilling business and is a delightful person. I stayed overnight at his place, the same house David junior grew up in. The next day he and David's sister and I attended a service at the Episcopal Church where David had gotten me involved in playing trumpet with the choir. David died of cancer in 1997. At the time of his death, his oldest daughter (there were four) was about to graduate from Wellesley, the middle one was in high school and the youngest, twins, were 12 years old. David had worked as a counselor and college professor in Ohio. Subsequent to his death the professional society in counseling where he had been active named their highest award for distinguished contributions to this field after him.

As a college student at the University of the South, David was a brilliant student at first, then had a nervous breakdown and had to drop out for a while. Later he recovered, graduated from Sewanee and then went on to graduate school. This experience and the help he received must have had a big impact on his thinking about life. I remember David as a best friend and one of the most interesting people I met growing up, usually several steps ahead in his thinking.
                                                         —Dewey Norton

Born in New Orleans. Second born of Evelyn Johnson       and Curtis Webb Caine, Sr.
Claimed Jesus as Savior and Lord at age 9
Boyd Grammar School
Bailey Junior High School
Murrah High School
Tulane - B.S.
University of Mississippi - M.D.
Internship - Baptist Hospital - Memphis
General Practice - San Francisco
Residency - Psychiatry,  Pediatrics, Anesthesiology (Duke   University),  Pediatric Anesthesiology (Memphis)
Private Practice - Natchez and Jackson

The third in the first three generation dynasty of Anesthesiologists in America:
(1) Grandfather Ansel Marion Caine, Sr, MD in New Orleans
(2) Father Curtis Webb Caine, Sr, MD in Jackson
(3) Curtis Webb Caine, Jr, MD in Jackson.

U.S. Army - broke his ankle on his 1st, and only, parachute jump

Fireworks Pyrotechnician - Natchez, Jackson, Pearl, etc.

Theater - Actor - many at Murrah (“Bye Bye Birdie”, “Little Abner”, etc), Madison, Little Theater Jackson, New Stage Jackson, Brick Street Clinton, Natchez, Pearl, Durham, etc. He sugar-daddyed most of them.  The front license plate on his car read “ACTOR”. His profession was acting. As an avocation, he practiced medicine to make a living. He had a role in Disney’s “Good Old Boy.”

Sang in the choir of each Church he belonged to, and each school he attended; a capella at Tulane (like his father)

Avid music fan - left 19,000 LP records, 1000 CDs, and many hundred audio tapes
Avid reader - left 8,000 books
Avid movie fan - left 800 video tapes with 3 movies on each
Collector of fine Art 
Wrote many plays and short stories - often for children       
                                 —Lynn and Curtis Caine, parents

I remember he had a go-cart. . . back in ’59. . . that he lived on the corner of Ridgewood and Meadowbrook roads. . . . and wore black horn rimmed glasses (who didn’t?). I remember telling him once that I’d really like to drive his go-cart, so he invited me over and, by God, he let me drive a go-cart for the first time in my life! How cool was that?
                                                         —Mims Wright

Bobby listed golf, hunting and fishing as favorite activities in the ’62 Résumé.

I lived around the corner from Allie Ann growing up, and she was a bridesmaid in my wedding in 1968. We had renewed our friendship when I lived in Jackson briefly during 1966-67. I'm sorry to say I did not keep up with her after 1968 and am saddened to learn of her death. She was a quiet, genuinely nice person. I remember that when her father died (I think when we were still in high school), I was so impressed that her mother took over his business of selling equipment to police and fire departments. It was so funny to go in her traditional Belhaven home (on Kenwood) and see a siren or a brace of police car blue lights sitting on a table. 
                                                       —Marian Gordon

Allie Ann and I were best friends at Murrah and went on to room at the “W.” We were in the “attic” in our freshman dorm with Doris McRae and several others. It was a good year, as freshman years go. We kept up but drifted apart over the years to reconnect in the strangest ways. . . the last time was a few weeks before her death.  My oldest son was in his residency at UMC and called me late one night and told me he had been called to admit a patient being brought in through the emergency room. He went, and the person recognized him from his childhood pictures on Christmas cards (no matter what, we did exchange Christmas cards ). The patient was Allie Ann and she was VERY ill. I went over the next day and we had a mini-reunion -- very bitter sweet. She died a few days later.

Her husband Jim is James Williams, 205 Longwood, Clinton. She and Jim had two children -- a boy [John David] and girl [Allison]. I don't know where they are now. Jim worked for Jitney and don't know if he is still in Clinton or not.
                                                 —Jeneva Faulk Pickett

I met Allie Ann in first grade at Power Elementary. We both grew up in Belhaven. She lived next door to Helen Garrison. Her mother was from Canada. I remember that when Queen Elizabeth was coronated, Allie Ann and her family went to England for the coronation. We were in the third or fourth grade. Allie Ann was a gentle, sweet soul. I ran into her in the grocery store in 1987. She recognized me first and came over. When I called her Allie Ann, she said she had dropped the Ann and goes by just Allie. It seemed important to her...a leaving behind of the past somehow. She was teaching school in Clinton at the time. She was an only child. I always liked her.
                                                                         —KS

After graduating from college, Allie taught French at Murrah and later at Mississippi College, according to Miss Irene Breland. The 1971 Résumé said, “Miss Allie Ann Corneil had been to France and was looking forward to going again. She kept busy by teaching classes of French I, II, III, and IV.”

Bobby Dodd and I went to many high school-era events together. He was my escort at one of the Junior League Carnival Balls when I was in the court. He shared my interest in classical music and had a lovely tenor voice. He was a "gentleman and a scholar," and I'm so sorry to learn of his death.
                                                       —Marian Gordon

I remember Bobby Dodd more from elementary school than from Murrah.  We lived about two blocks from each other. He was on Downing about halfway up the hill, and I was on Hartfield. I guess a silly thing to remember, but we would sneak over the fence into his next door neighbor's yard and steal figs from their tree. The lady would come out with a broom and in a big commotion chase us away.  
                                                         —Seth Williams

Bobby’s mother taught many of us geometry at Murrah. The program for Murrah’s 1961 production of Carousel said, “This musically-inclined junior has already proven successful on stage, as he was in Li’l Abner and has appeared with the Singers for two years. [He] is a member of both the National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta.” 

In the 1972 reunion Hoofbeat he reported that he was a personnel management specialist in DC and owned a restored house only blocks from the Capitol. He had continued his interest in choirs, performing professionally, and theater. By 1982 when he wrote the reunion Hoofbeat, he was working with the United Nations in New York, negotiating with union representatives on a job evaluation system.

Ken was a planning and real estate consultant, he reported to the 1982 reunion Hoofbeat. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi. He and his wife Marian had four children, Karrie, Kortney, Kenny and Kristopher. Beside his picture in the ’61 Résumé were these notes: “Hico helper. . . welcome companion. . . quiet qualities.” As a senior at Murrah, he was vice-president of the Music Club.