Verdell Thompson:  

How are you??? My name is Verdell Thompson, relatives and close friends call me Sissy. While attending Spingarn, my family and I lived on 21st and Maryland Avenue N.E. My sisters Patricia (Pat) and Barbara (Cookie) were also students at Spingarn. I played softball, ran track and played powder puff football, I believe I was a pretty good student, I loved creative writing, biology and instrumental music!!! Hubert Gates (Spingarn's track coach) was my hero, my spiritual daddy, and my confidant... I loved everybody, But I had a few close friends, Annette Jennings, Yvette Proctor (who was murdered), Vivian Butler, Ernest Feaster, Michael Miller, Michael Mathews, Dennis Brown, Dexter Hill, Paul Avant, Paul Diggs, Leroy Mead, Fernella Scott... My at~home friends were JoVette Bowman, Juanita Bradley, Diane Spencer, The Carter family#Pam, Rita, Michael & Mark, Shirley Quattlebaum, Joanne Ellis, The Grayton family# James, Calvin, Cynthia & Day~Day, Julie Hall, The Scott family#Eddie, Maurice & James (BooBoo), the Fletcher family# Greg, Ronnie & Winnie<><><> I hated the cafeteria food so inorder to get enough money to go to Miles Long I used to sneak across Benning Road and either shoot pool in the billiard room or go to the back of the corner store to shoot craps with t...Expand for more