I'm the one losing it - it was Miss Sue Davidson...Miss Gray was from another life...several years later :( The only thing I remember us voting on was a school song and a fight song. Seems we 'stole' ours from some some college - Notre Dame maybe? The brick with the panther print was fairly old from the 1920's maybe? Jeannine Jeannine Kirkpatrick Smith On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Don Grice wrote: > I seem to recall voting on what to call the teams but don't remember why > they picked Panthers. Don't recall ever seeing the brick > either........OMG.....am I losing it? Now, I do remember the museum and > got out my year book and see a picture of it. I thought it was the smaller > building but this picture is of a sizable house. Miss Sue Davidson is > listed as Public Relations and Curator of the museum. I don't remember Miss > Gray. > > Donnie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeannine K Smith" <jks1@ra.msstate.edu> > To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:00 PM > Subject: Re: [PTREE] panthers > > >> >> >> Donnie may remember this. The school at French Camp has the panther as >> their mascot. This mascot came about this way. >> >> Back years ago, a new building was going up on the school campus. For >> some reason the bricks were being made there and left overnight under a >> tree to dry. One morning the builders found a perfect pawprint in one of >> the bricks. It was immediately assumed that it was made by a panther that >> had been seen in the area. >> >> Thereby was born the French Camp Panthers and the 'Paw Print' emblem of >> the school. >> >> For many years this brick was kept in a small museum on the school >> grounds, then later in the administration building. I wonder if it still >> survives there. >> >> Donnie do you remember the pawprint brick and the old museum that Miss >> Gray had at the high school? >> >> Jeannine >> >> >> Jeannine Kirkpatrick Smith >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >