Now, today’s endeavor contains a lot of names. A whole lot.

So for you who are not originally from here, or are a generation or so younger than I, please indulge me a bit. I can appreciate your position, for when we lived on the Outer Banks, we were somewhat in that same situation whenever natives waxed yesteryear-ish.

The printed program, which only recently has come into my possession, was for the Sesqui-Quin Centennial Sermon during the 250th anniversary of the incorporation of Bath. North Carolina, that is.

This event took place at the “Creekside Theatre,” in Bath, Oct. 2, 1955. This was the site for the pageant, also, the one in which so many Beaufort County students took part. It was quite an occasion. I remember that Governor Luther Hodges portrayed one of the historical figures. As did numerous other notable. Good memories.

As for the Sesqui-Quin Centennial religious service, I have no recollection of it. Gone. Someone must have hit “delete” in my memory.

Back to the printed program I mentioned. On the front below the title was “Music by the Washington High School Choir.” And “Under Direction of Charles Stevens; Zoph Potts, Organist.”

The invocation was given by the Rev. R.E. Couch, and there were remarks by the Rev. Harold Tyer. The Rev. C. Sylvester Green, D.D., Wake Forest College, gave the sermon, with a prayer followed by the Rev. Stanleigh Jenkins.

There also, interspersed, was congregational singing: a “Sermon Hymn” and a “Recessional Hymn.”

What the WHS choir sang eludes me, but evidently we sang something.

And now to those names of WHS choir members. See how many, if any, are familiar to you.

Boots Cahoon, Glenda Stubbs, Sally Day, Florence Ipock, Weensie Parvin, Charlotte Cherry, Patricia (“Trick”) Smith, Iris Langley.

Mary Clark, Carol Smith, Carolyn Wilson, Sallie Brinkley, Ada Lou Jarvis, Barbara Morris, Marie Moore, Barbara Jones.

Mary Stewart Moss, Hilda Roberts, Barbara Francis, Jo Sermons Roberts, Jeanette Woolard, Ann Tayloe, Lindsay Britt, Charlotte Nicholson.

Frank Flynn, Ward Marslender, Jess Harrington, Edward Earl Horton, Glenwood Smith, Milton Fulcher, Fritz Tanner, Jerry Ward.

Mickey Cochran, Steve Cochran, Burl Alligood, Bill Tanner, Ed (“Brother”) Mercer, Durwood Dixon, Bartow Houston, and John Ratcliff.

And that’s how it was, Oct. 2, 1955, in Olde Bath Town. According to the program.

Wish I remembered it.