By Mary Catherine Ballou &Fun
MBA program as well, who stayed at Meg
Davenport’s parents’ home by the sound.
Activities that weekend included spend-ing
time on the beach, sharing meals and,
for the guys, playing basketball on the
local courts. Bailey comments, “When
the school year ended, we came back to
Wrightsville Beach for Memorial Day,”
and continued to for “20-plus years.” The
attendance rate has fluctuated as the years
go by but, as Davenport remarks, there
has always been a “core group of people”
attending each gathering.
Mary Virginia (Bruce) Scott “Gin-
Gin” explains that their vacations “started
out crammed into beach house(s) …we
had picnics and met (in the evenings) at
King Neptune.” When they first started
coming, “Wrightsville Beach wasn’t as
accessible (because) the boom had not hit
yet … after I-40 was built, (it) became
more modern.” Initially, there were three
to four vacation homes owned by par-ents
that served as access to the beach,
including the Bailey townhouse; a cottage
owned by the parents of Logan (Lynch)
Haigh, located near the water tower on
the southern end of the island; and the
Davenport home by the sound.
Former classmates in the Master of Business
Administration program at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gather for
their annual reunion in Wrightsville Beach
on Labor Day weekend in 2018. Top to
Bottom: Blaise Hickey, Robin Hickey, Duffy
Hickey, Stuart Phoenix, Tricia Phoenix,
George Ramsay, Anne Ramsay, Hubert
Haywood, Emmett Boney Haywood, Karen
Bailey, Jim Bailey, Mitzi Sproul Cheever, Belk
Daughtridge, Meg Talbert Davenport, Clayton
Duncan, Gin Gin Bruce Scott and Jim Snowa.
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