Ronald (Ceasar) Tassin

                                                                               By: Joseph (Ceasar) Tassin Jr.

 George Washington Carver Senior High School celebrated their 21^st annual homecoming festivities on October 14, 1978 at Tad Gomely Stadium. For this year, the festivities were dedicated to Ronald (Ceasar) Tassin.

                                                              WHO IS RONALD (CEASAR) TASSIN?

Ronald was a four (4) year starter of the Carver Rams football team and the last two (2) of those years were spent as team captain. He made All District two (2) years straight and was a candidate for All-American.

 At the end of his career with the Carver Rams, Ronald was offered between twenty (20) and thirty (30) scholarships throughout the United States, his choice, Alcorn State University. Alcorn is a historically Black college located in the western – central part of Mississippi. Alcorn is rated as having a fairly good football team. Ronald was to start in his first year. His dream never came true. Ronald (Ceasar) Tassin died by drowning on August 1, 1978. Ronald was the son of the late Mr. Joseph Tassin Sr. and Mrs. Willie Mae Tassin, a resident of this community and a member of St. Phillip Catholic Church for over twenty (20) years. He had eight (8) brothers and sisters; Barbara Ceasar Age, Ursula Ceasar Morgan, Gloria Ceasar, Leonard Ceasar Jr., Beverly Tassin Haynes, Joseph (Ceasar) Tassin Jr., Gilbert (Ceasar) Tassin, and Grace (Ceasar) Tassin.

 The Rams, in a convincing win over the Clark Bulldogs 40-8, gave the winning football to the mother of Ronald, Mrs. Willie Mae Tassin. With tears in her eyes and rolling down her cheeks, while being swarmed by the whole team and coaching staff, Mrs. Tassin stood tall and proud as cameras flashed and the principal of George Washington Carver Senior High School, Herbert J. McCullum, handed her the game ball and a gentle kiss on the cheek. 

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