Dorcas Carner Burrus '68

I starting working at Judge Tyson's Office in the summer of 1967, while I was only 16 years old, through the DCT Program. I worked as a secretary and later also became a part-time Business Education instructor, until I retired and my husband and I moved from Belle Glade in 2005.

In 2006, we moved to Monticello next to our son, Derrick. It is positively beautiful here and we absolutely love it. It's just too far away from our son, Greg and his family. Hoping they will also move here soon. If I had my way, our family would all live in the same town, close together, like a commune, so I could have my children and grandchildren around all the time. There's nothing like family!

I attend Capital Heights Baptist Church in Tallahassee, where Derrick is Pastor. That website is www.chbaptistchurch.org. Please feel free to visit by computer or in person. His audio messages can be heard from every service. We also have a Youth Program, wherein Corey, my grandson, often preaches and his messages can also be heard audibly.

I thank God for being so good to our family. Though I stumble, He has been so gracious to bless me with such a wonderful family!

May God also richly bless each of your lives. If you are not personally acquainted with Him, I hope that you will realize that His Son shed His precious blood, dying for the sins of each and every one of us. He lives again with our Holy Father in Heaven.

The current signs of the time tell us that He is coming again some day soon to take us home with Him. Please don't put your decision off until it is one day too late!

I was rather shy in school. I spent most of my time with Jane Mills (Scheffler), Glenda Shurley (Thomas), and Susan Hughes. We all went to the same church and the activities we attended were mainly church-oriented. The wildest thing we ever did was drive to Pahokee or Clewiston. Can you actually remember when gas was only $.37 per gallon? Are we getting old or what?

Jane and I spent a lot of time in my blue Camaro convertible and Jane's green Oldsmobile. Jane and I are still the very bestest of friends and talk several times a year (more often on the internet), though we don't see one another that often. Glenda and I also contact one another, though not regularly.

If kids were only as bad today as we were back then, this world would be in much better shape! That's when you could actually walk down the streets and do all of your shopping and running around in the sweet little town of Belle Glade. The good ole days!