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Note: "The Atlanta Constitution"
Atlanta, Georgia
Tuesday, March 21, 1911
pg. 6
Bright-Eyed
(From The Senoia Gazette)
A bright-eyed baby boy has come to the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Nixon. May his staty be long and pleasant.
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Graduated from Newnan H.S., Newnan, Georgia.
Graduation program from 31 May 1928 states that
O.F. was winner of the American Legion Medal for Best All Around Boy and the Football Manager.
2 years perfect attendance.
Per news account:
"The Alvin-Hugh Harris Post of the American Legion has awarded three medals to as many students in the public schools of Newnan for their accomplishments in the school room as well as out in the world.
. . .O. F. Nixon was awarded the medal in the High School by a vote of the faculty. Mr. Nixon is a member of the graduating class of this year and was outstanding in school activities at Newnan High School."
O.F. attended Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.
Was Owner & President of Industrial Suppliers, Inc. in LaGrange, GA.
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Subj: Re: Fixed, Thanks and Visiting Senoia and Bethel
Date: 2/12/03 7:13:50 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: barbray@@mindspring.com
To: VCJFreeman@@aol.com
Thanks, Valerie. You are very kind.
Yesterday, my father remembered something that you can share with your husband. You'll recall that O.F. and my father were just one year apart in school, both in Newnan HS and at GA Tech. Daddy told me that they both also worked summer jobs at a mill in Newnan. They must have been in high school. One day, as my father was leaving at the end of the day, he came across O.F., on the floor, crouched underneath a machine, looking at something, studying the situation perhaps. Olin stopped to check on what O.F. was doing. Daddy remembers thinking at the time--what a strange thing, messing around under mill machinery. Why would anyone do that? Certainly, Olin wouldn't. Of course, Olin was to think about that years later as O.F. chose textile engineering at Tech, then had his own mill. It turned out O.F.'s behavior in his youth was not only appropriate for him, but predictive of his future.
Barbara McDaniel Ray
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