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February 2022

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CityViewNC.com | 41 Bill Kirby Jr. can be reached at bkirby@cityviewnc.com, billkirby49@gmail.com or 910-624-1961. Read more of his columns at CityView TODAY. and still stays in touch with Jimmy Frazier to reminisce about their adventure on the lapstrake boat to the Florida Keys. "Jimmy lives in Memphis," Bryan said. "at trip and how much fun we had is all we talk about." Ringing the Victory Bell Daughter Catharine said it's one of her daddy's favorite stories. "He gets so much pleasure talking about it," she said, "… and about stealing the Victory Bell when he was at Carolina and getting thrown into the police car in the 1950s." Oh yes, another story for Bryan to tell from his youth. "It was in 1954, and we couldn't win the Carolina-Duke football game for years when I was up there, so we went to Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke at night, broke in and stole the Victory Bell from the basement," he said. "I rang it through all the dorms at Chapel Hill. We got 10 dorms involved and about 1,000 people." Chapel Hill police arrived to quell the excitement and give Bryan, the ringleader, a warning not to ring the bell again. "I kept on ringing it," Bryan said with a devilish smile. "ey put me in the backseat of the cop car. I slid off the backseat on the other side and took off running. I lost my loafers. We ran to the top of Steele Dormitory and spent the night so the cops couldn't find us." Epilogue ere's the fight, too, that broke out in 1956 in the basketball game between the Tar Heels and Wake Forest, and Bryan was right there in the middle of the fracas. "Joe Quigg says he started it," Bryan said about the UNC standout who now lives in Fayetteville. Bryan has one story aer another, but that trip down to the Florida Keys with his boyhood friend Jimmy Frazier is among his favorites to tell, and he never tires of telling it. "ose memories," Catharine Brown said, "are what he cherishes." FUNERAL SERVICES ~ CREMATION ~ PRENEED JAMES LANCASTER EDWARD MERCER SULLIVAN'S Highland Funeral Service & Crematory Family Owned and Operated Funeral and Cremation Services Cremations Performed On Site Pre-planning of Funeral Options 910.484.8108 • 610 Ramsey Street, Fayetteville, NC www.sullivanshighland.com

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