Calhoun County Training School - Tigerette Yearbook (Hobson City, AL)

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CLASS HIS TORY THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE IS UPPERMOST IN THE MINDS OF PARENTS AND FRIENDS WHO HAVE WATCHED, TOILED AND SACRI+ FICED THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO OBTAIN AN EDUCATION, WE HAVE NOT REALIZED THE HARDSHIPS THAT HAVE BEEN ENDURED BY OUR PARENTS AS WE STRUGGLED FROM INFANCY, AND AS THEY STRUGGLED TO AVAIL US EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO FORGE AHEAD AND MAKE LEADERS FOR THE FUTURE, IN 1933 WE CAME FORTY STRONG TO BEGJN AND SEARCH FOR THE ANSWERS TO THE NEVER ENDING WHY'S, YOUNG AND TIMIDWE WERE FROM HOME BY LOVING PARENTS WHO LED WITH PRIDETHEIR CHILDREN WHO WERE BEGINNING SCHOOL. WE HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT WAS TO COME OR HAPPEN IN THE YEARS TO FOLLOW. WE WERE GREETED BY MRS, ORLEAN HANNA, A LOVING AND UNDER STANDING PERSON WHO WAS TO BEGIN SHAPING AND MOLDING US INTO DILIGENT AND THOUGHTFUL STUDENTS,WITH HER THREE R'S WERE NO PROBLEM BECAUSE SHE HAD BEFRIENDED US AS WE CAME AFRAID AND SEEKING GUIDANCE ABOUT THE PERLEXING PROBLEMS OF LIFE, LITTLE DID WE DREAM THAT FROM HER WORDS AND GUIDANCE OUR LIVES WERE BEING CHANGE FROM THE EARLIER PATTERNS THAT MOTHER AND FATHER HAD STARTED, IT WAS NO EASY PROBLEM TO MAKE NEW ADJUSTMENT BUT WITH A FIRM DETERMINATION WE TACKLED THE JOB AS BEST WE COULD, AFTER WHAT SEEMED YEARS THE DAY OF PROMOTION CAME, WITH FOND GLANCES MRS, HANNA PROCEEDED ON THAT BRIGHT MAY MORNING TO PASS US OUR CARDS THAT HAVE EVI- DENCE OF OUR HAVING COMPLETED OUR FIRST YEAR OF SCHOOL. FROM HERE WE WERE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE, MRS. GLADYS P. MERRITT WAS OUR NEXT IN A SERIOUS OFSEEW- INGLY NEVER ENDING MONTHS OF READING AND WRITING. HERE, WE FOUND ANOTHER BELOVED FRIEND WHO SOUGHT TO GUIDE AND FURTHER SHAPE OUR DESTINY, HERE IT SEEMED AS THOUGH DAYS BEGAN TO FLY, BEFORE WE REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING WE HAD MOVED TO THE THIRD GRADE TO BE AGAIN WITH MRS,MERRI1 As LIFE GOES SO DOES LUCK, ON ENTERING THE FOURTH GRADE UNDER MRS, NOLAN, CIRCUMSTANCES OVER WHICH WE HAD NO CONTROL CAUSED TEN OF OUR BELOVED CLASSMATES TO DROP SCHOOL. FEELING THE LOSS BUT OUR COURAGE WAS NOT DAUNTED WE MOVED ON TO THE FIFTH GRADE UNDER THE CAPABLEGUIDANCE OF MISS HALL, OUR LESSONS BEGAN TO GET HARDER BUTWE WERE DETERMINED NOT TO GIVE UP,WlTH ANOTHER YEAR WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO BEGINNING OUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DAYS,HOWEVER, MRS4 ETHEL CALDWELL WAS THERE TO ISSUE US A CHALLENGEAND

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