Princeton High School inducts five in new Hall of Fame
Princeton High School’s first class for its new Athletic Hall of Fame pose by the wall that will hold their pictures and plaques after Friday night’s induction ceremony. From left to right: Ricky Boyette, standing in for the late Helen Dora Mozingo; Annette Phillips, William Wellons, Pamela Rawlings and Mike Atkinson. (NL Photo by Williams)
By David Williams
NL Editor
Princeton High School inducted its inaugural class into the Princeton High School Athletic Hall of Fame Friday during a ceremony between the girls and boys game of the Princeton-North Johnston game at the Princeton School gym.
Five members were inducted, one posthumously, and will have their pictures and plaques mounted on the wall in the hallway next to the high school wing.
• Helen Dora Mozingo taught school at Princeton for 38 years until she retired in 1981. She ran the clock for 21 years for both football games and basketball games, and was the girls’ basketball team chaperone for 17 years, known as “Miss Moe” to everyone. She died in 1998. Ricky Boyette, head girls’ basketball coach at Princeton, accepted the award in her behalf.
• Annette Phillips played basketball and softball at Princeton through 1981. An honor graduate and an all-conference athlete, she was on the News and Observer All-East Basketball team and was on the North Carolina Coaches Association basketball team in Greensboro in 1981. She attended Louisburg College and became a standout in basketball and was named the school’s Most Outstanding Student Athlete in 1983. She graduate Summa Cum Laude and went on to East Carolina University, where she played basketball and won the team’s Defensive Player Award in 1985. She set a school record for minutes played, a record that was only broken last year. She now works and lives in Raleigh.
• Mike Atkinson was synonymous with Princeton football when he attended Princeton from 1977 until 1981. But he was also a standout in basketball and baseball, winning all-east baseball honors in 1980 and 1981. He was a two-time conference player of the year and was named to the all-east team three times. He set state records for career carries (849), career total yards (6,221), career touchdowns (99), and career two-point conversions (49). He attended Duke University, where he lettered in football four times and lettered in track his senior year. He graduated with a degree in English and played briefly for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League. He now lives n Durham, where is married and is the father of two children He is the senior vice president of First Citizens Bank and Trust Company.
• Pamela Rawlings went to Princeton High from 1981-1985 and won numerous awards in basketball and softball, being named all conference in both sports for all four years. She was named player of the year in 1984 and 1985 and was All-East in basketball for three straight years, being named to the North Carolina Coaches Association East-West Basketball game in 1985. She attended the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where she received a degree in Criminal Justice in 1990. She resides in Selma and is a bondswoman for the state of North Carolina.
• William I. Wellons graduated from Princeton School in 1949, and enjoyed high school sports. But his contributions to the school and its athletic program go far beyond that. Wellons is credited with starting a football program at Princeton and for recruiting Fred Barthlolomew to come to the school as principal. He served on the Princeton School Advisory Board for over forty years, and was the chairman for many of those years. Wellons fought the consolidation movement, helped keep Princeton School from closing during that time, and has supported many bond initiatives for Johnston County Schools.
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