From time to time, I go to
eBay and search out items relating to Pacolet.
(Don't ask why but there are almost always things
there relating to Pacolet and they have lots of
bidders and get a premium price.) In the spring of
2005, there was a 1955 Pacolet High Tomahawk
yearbook listed. As some of you might remember, I
was the editor of that book. Since we were such a
small school, there probably were less than 300
copies printed - and Mary Lee and I have 2- so
it was pretty rare. This was peculiar enough, seeing
the book listed exactly 50 years later, but I
contacted the seller to see who the book belonged
to. He had said in his listing that it had belonged
to a teacher. His reply said that it had belonged to
a "Miss Bishop". Well, Miss Bishop was the faculty
adviser to us on the annual staff. The staff had
connived to co- dedicate the annual to her without
her knowledge until she saw it in print. And now, to
be able to buy her own annual, 50 years later, over
the internet has struck me as most strange and
unusual. The seller, in Anderson, SC, had no
information about where he had gotten the book. He
thought it was in a quantity of old books he had
bought somewhere.
We all thought it very peculiar that the personal
copy of a teacher that had the Tomahawk dedicated to
them showed up for sale on eBay many years later.
Well, another one surfaced after Miss Bishop's.
Lindie Sullivan Wells recently bought a 1952
Tomahawk on eBay. It belonged to our Ag. teacher,
Jack Corn, and the book had been dedicated to him
that year, 1952. The story of how these books,
that at one time were very valuable to their owners,
came to be cast off and sold would be very
interesting.
