Marvel Nettles:  

Life I started to school in the Epsicopal Church, as the CC school had burned that year and was in a state of being refurbished (left off the 3rd story, as I understand it). Later, part of the class from the Episcopal Church was transferred to the First Baptist Church until the schoolhouse was finished and ready for occupancy. I was in Mrs. Shepherd's(sp)1st grade class. Mrs. Jesup's 2nd grade; Mrs. Wilson 3rd grade; Mrs. Colvard 4th grade; Miss Battle 5th grade; Mrs Risbeck 6th grade; from 7-12, I had many and various teachers, as there were 6 periods of 50 minutes each, with 10 minutes between classes. We did not have armed guards (sheriff's resource officers)to maintain order in the halls or the classrooms, nor cousellors to hold meetings to console us when things did not go our way. We just dealt with problems as they came our way. And yes, I still remember having to memorize Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and parts of the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and then, there was "whan Zepherus eke with his swete breth,inspired hath and every holt and heth, the tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne hath in the ram his halfe coors y roone", or something like that. I never figured out how to use the slide rule and pocket computers were beyond my realm. I had to memorize the multiplication tables a...Expand for more