LIVING HISTORY
After graduation, the Class of 1979 vowed to meet for joint reunions. Assisting with leadership over the years were, from left: Sharon Andric, Octavia Clark,
Larry Hollett and Peggy Summerlin. The association organized a scholarship fund for Central and Westwood graduates.
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Peggy Summerlin Allen, a ’79 Westwood graduate, remembers
the split sessions during her freshman year at Central.
“I was in the afternoon sessions, and it was dark some
days when we got out of school and got off the bus.”
The school officials began plans for a new high school
off Angle Road, in what was then the western part of the
county’s residential area. Then came the decisions about who
would go where.
School attendance zones were not clear-cut lines that followed
the city’s north-south roadways. Instead, the demarcation
line snaked its way around the city. In the years
following the 1978-79 school year, the dividing line seemed
to change.
One of the first memorable events for students occurred
Oct. 20, 1978, when the schools’ football teams met to play
the first game of what would become an annual crosstown
rivalry. It was a big night in Fort Pierce. Thousands of fans
crowded into Lawnwood Stadium to watch Central trounce
Westwood 42-0.
An essay in the 1979 Fort Pierce Central yearbook captured >>
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