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When the Rev. Harry Hight was 23 years old, he served as a counselor at a junior-high camp in Virginia Conference. "One of my kids came up uninvited and started writing her name on the back of my shirt," says Hight. That girl didn't know it then, but she started something. For 42 years, the pastor has carried that same shirt to Holston camps and assemblies, inviting people to make their mark on his apparel. Now that Hight is 65, the terry cloth shirt requires careful handwashing and is well beyond its heyday. But Hight still receives an occasional signature, most recently from retiring Bishop Ray Chamberlain at Annual Conference 2004. "The oldest legible name is Trudy Williams from First Maryville in 1967," says Hight, who is now retired and pastors Lebanon (Chilhowie) Charge. "I wonder what became of her?" Hight invites Holston members who remember signing his shirt over the years to e-mail him at hhight@preferred.com.
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