Teams Were Seeing Double!

The Peed tradition on Norman Carter's basketball teams had been around a few years when I first joined the Lady Vikings. By 1970 all 8 teams he had taken to the state tournament had at least one Peed girl on them. Coach Carter considered that tradition a good luck charm. Dondra was on the 1963 team and Janice was on 1964 and 1965. When Kathy and Karon joined the team in 1967, I guess it became double good luck. They were identical twins.
Kathy and Karon played guard, and they were double trouble to the other teams we played. To be as nice as they were, they played tough defense. I'm sure the other team's forwards thought they were seeing double by the time it was over. Coach Carter alternated his guards the years I played, and if both weren't in there at the same time, one was in there. If you couldn't tell Kathy from Karon you could look at their uniform numbers. Kathy was #20 and Karon was #30.

Karon Peed Dunn saw Judy Riley Bland back in the fall and as with any two Lady Vikings talking, the conversation turned to the fact that we really need to have a reunion. Judy and Karon get the credit for our upcoming get-together. They got the ball rolling first. Now it is really bouncing! We have over 125 signed up to attend.

Kathy Peed Davis has been making a scrapbook for our reunion and I got to see it last Friday. It is fabulous! It turns out that her mother kept all the newspaper articles from the twins' four years in high school. Kathy got them out after her mother's death and her mother had numbered every one in order of occurence. She also had a note in there the day the Sunday paper didn't run and she didn't have that article. Kathy went to the library and got that one. She's been working hard since Christmas getting the scrapbook done. This scrapbook is so impressive, with all the stickers and acid-free paper that current day scrapbookers use. My scrapbooks and Sissy's scrapbooks are falling apart! Of course, they are 35 years old!

There is a photograph in Kathy's scrapbook that I want you all to see. "Miss" Eleanor had hung Kathy's and Karon's uniforms (white and blue) on the clothesline and taken a picture. It is so neat to see those four uniforms hanging on the line. Brings back memories!