Felicia Derden:  

Which teacher would I love most to see again (at Roosevelt High)... that would have to be Ms. Hester, boy could she do the slpits in a minute.... She caught me everytime I missed class!!! She was too good!! I have never forgotten her. She often told me, after calling my house to speak with my mother on my absence from her class...that she WOULD see me tomorrow...must not have done a very good job of sounding like my mother I guess and I would say yes ma'am!! After leaving St.Louis, my family moved to a very small town of less than 300 people at the time... quite a change from a huge Roosevelt HS to a school that had K thru 12 in one school and everyone was related somehow to someone. Although that little town has grown so much. I recently returned to South St. Louis for my grandmother's funeral after not being in my neighborhood since 1982, I lived on Minnesota Street ... three or four blocks off of Gravois(I think). I then went to Roosevelt HS as well as Grant Middle school, seems that I don't remember Grant as much as I did Roosevelt....I do think that it is still very impressive. I have to say that I have been very blessed...Expand for more