Pre-school conference consisted of one day.
Purcell McCue, Jr. and I
went to Mcintire School auditorium for this occasion.
Purcell was going to
teach but his career was interrupted that year by a call from Uncle Sam.
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Bourne Wayland filled the year out.
child
Mother and I had labored over a navy blue crepe dress with lots of tucks which I wore with a red hat for this one day conference at Mcintire School. This was the appropriate dress for the occasion.
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As strange as it may seem
now, I fitted in with the rest of my appearance. By the time I
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lived through the first day of school and "all those
fell
children" I wondered many times if I still had not been better off in Monterey raising chickens.
A chicken farm had been my ambition when I was told I had
to go to college by my parents.
a $4.
some
My enrollment during my Greenwood teaching years from 1942-1955 was in the 40's.
Perhaps in the last years I was at Greenwood the upper 30's.
I had
52 in my class one year and 48 on another occasion. I
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regret that I did not keep a permanent copy of each year's enrollment,
also a dairy.
from
I know the diary would have made a "best sellers" list.
no to was rr
Teaching then was so different than it was in the latter part of my 35
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years as a teacher. We only had one record player (Victrola) for the entire school and a box of records where you signed up to use them. supply as now.
a bag
Easy books were not in abundant
The floors were oiled and reoiled during the year.
We had a
part time librarian.
She r "shop
The principal taught and coached. Teachers had lots of extra duties--bus duty, plays, suppers, May Days and P.T.A. programs.
P.T.A. meetings were such a bore to me through the years.
High school students would help the primary teachers at times because of our heavy
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