Pamela Wall:  

CLASS OF 1963
Savannah, GA

Pamela's Story

After leaving SHS I attended Armstrong along with several from our class: Susan Pacetti, Ellene Wilkinson, etc. Then I went to Georgia Southern where I graduated with a teaching degree. Ellene and I were roommates there. We generated lots of comment because of our different heights but I could not have had a more loving companion those two years. I still have the picture of me in her wedding. Were we ever that young and beautiful? After four years teaching English at Groves HS I began teaching in the metro Atlanta area for the rest of my career. Did lots of graduate work and got way too many endorsements. Just "graduated" in May 2007 after 40 years in the classroom. Spent 26 years at Riverwood High School whereI taught everything from remedial reading to AP Literature and initiated the ESOL and SAT programs for Fulton County Schools. Here's an interest tidbit: Some of my SHS classmates' children came through my classroom.I enjoyed being department chair in a magnet school with an IB program but I am enjoying retirement even more. Those of you who had PE with me will laugh about this: I was part of the athletic program for 20 years...but as the business manager. See,even as a grown up no one would choose me for the team! On the personal side, I have beeen fortunate to be loved by Lee Wall, a fifth generation Atlantan, for 31 years now. I am definitley still a Beach Boys and Beatles gal and he is all Rolling Stones but somehow it works for us. We have a son, Christopher, who turns 26 this June. No grandchildren yet. My sister Pat (class if '65) is still in Savannah and has just retired from running the Sea Cabins B&B on River Street and sold the Savannah Sails and Rails shop, too. Those of you still in town might be playing Bingo with her on Thursday nights. Many of you had a connection to my father because he delivered so many babies in our generation. The buildi...Expand for more
ng where he practiced medicine behind the SHS cafeteria alongside the ROTC field is still there. Both Mama and Daddy died in 1982, the year I gave birth. The ever changing cirle of life and death, right? My mother Ellen was famous for making candied apples for Halloween and some of you probably screamed "Trick or Treat" for them when we were kids. Ronnie Allen and Richard Wilson always asked for another one...and Mama had them ready. I am still a lifelong Presbyterian having been born into Independent Presbyterian Church. Some of you like Pricilla Harms,Camille Puckett, and Joan Wing attended IPC School with me so our association started long before SHS or Richard Arnold Jr. High. I find it much too selfserving to list all the degrees earned and awards given from my career and for community service so Ill just say it has been a lovely ride so far and it is always nice when the community recognizes hard work. I did have the pleasure of breaking the gender line when Rotary International inducted me into membership as one of the very first women members. Yeah for the girls! Would you recognize me on the street? Probably not. Remember I was 16 when I graduated and weighed all of 88 lbs., wore glasses, and had dishwater blonde hair. Well, I no longer weigh under 100 lbs. nor have glasses and I have streaked my hair with blonde to disguise the grey coming in. (Hey, Southern women don't go grey, they go blonde.)The inside is still the same: love to read, care about the environment, would never have a home without a cat or two, have a corny sense of humor and cannot stop dancing. When I meet people for the first time they always ask,"Where is your home?" I routinely answer. "Savannah is home but I've lived in Atlanta since 1971." So, I'm coming home on June 6 and hope to see many of you whether you recognize me or not! Love to all the Blue Jackets, Pamela Redmond Wall
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