A Coincidence

Jan 24, 2018, 8:10 PM

Bill Curry was a member of the University of Florida football team just before WW2. Bill was not only a great athlete, he was a straight A student and a super guy. Bill and I worked together one summer at UF. Along came the war and I did not know where he had gone. During the war, I went to Paris on R & R. One day while in Paris, I went to an open mess. One of the other GIs sitting by me asked where I was from. When I told him Florida, he said, "I'm also from Florida". Then we discovered we were both at the Univ. of Florida before the war. He told me that Bill Curry was his CO and was killed in action. I then told him I knew Bill real well.

When my family and I came to Clemson in 1955, my oldest daugher was 5.The following year she entered the first grade and now we were eligible for the PTA. At one of the PTA meetings my wife and I met a young couple who had just moved to Clemson. They too, had a daughter in the first grade. During our conversation we discovered the wife was a native of Quincy, FL. I told her I knew a young man from Quincy who was on the Gator football team before WW2. I then told her the story about my conversation with the GI in Paris. I then asked her if she knew a Bill Curry. Her response, "he was my brother".

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I was playing in a golf tournament in Greensboro, NC, and arriving at the first tee we encountered the starter, an older gentleman who I recognized as being a Clemson man. I called to him, hello Clemson, and he acted as if he never heard me but proceeded to tell us the rules for the day regarding carts on fairways, etc. When he was finished, he looked at me and asked, how did you know I was Clemson? I replied, I see that pretty ring. I told him I was a graduate and that my Dad was class of '44. He asked, what's your Dad's name? I told him and he said, you see these cold chills on my arm, your Dad was not only my roommate at Clemson, but the best man at my wedding. I got out of the cart, took my hat off, and practically shouted, Mr. Joe Jolly! This was a man I had heard about all my life but never thought I would ever meet. I learned more than a few things about my father including how he got the nickname that was used to address him in his Taps.

Always enjoy your stories Joe, keep em coming.

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Sounds more like Karma than coincidence in that case.

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Welllllll - are you gonna keep us in suspense ?***

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Joe, not sure if I believe in coincidences any more..

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