wellborn my hometown

Third April Saturday is always the Wellborn School Reunion held at Wellborn Baptist. The school closed its doors in 1967 after one hundred years of offering eduacation opportunity to hometown kids.
Wellborn grieved.

Irene Jernigan McCall is the pretty white haired lady on the right. She couldn't wait to tell that she will be Grand-Marshall enjoying the place of honor for the 15th annual Blueberry Festival '08 on the first weekend in June. She grew up in Wellborn and loves our hometown as much as any of us who enjoy that God brought us here to live now..
Irene was the originator of "Wellborn My Hometown" title for the history book published in 1997. The other lady in the photo is Pearlie Mae Walker who also loves Wellborn as her own hometown. She helped with the "Wellborn My Hometown" book

Pearlie Mae, Helen McMullen Cribbs and Denwood Morgan, with helpers Frances Tannehill Bullock and Boochie Bulloch have been the backbone of the Wellborn School Reunion for 28 years. Their plea is that younger Wellborn school people will volunteer. It is a precious tradition for those who share memories of going to school in our hometown.

Helen Cribbs told a wonderful story. She was thirteen when her daddy took her to Live Oak and explained that all her brothers were off to fight for our country and he really needed to have driver on the farm and did not drive himself. So Helen Mc Mullen was authorized to drive at age 13. Several others volunteered their early driving experiences.

A tender time at the Wellborn School Reunion is the memorial for those who were promoted to the heavenlies since the reunion a year ago.. This years named one are: Marylyn Carver Burnham, Grace Stansel Pennington Lee, Aileen Brannon Carver, Wilbur Brown. Jerome Law, and George Edward Poucher. Boochie struck the bell as everyone remembered their own connection to their deceased classmates.