Remembering School Days: Searching Inside

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... Remembering School Days is the fifth book of stories published by "Telling Our Stories... personal stories and family histories. Co-directors of the project are two Austin College faculty, Dr.... Stories by forty North Texans made up Grayson County Reminiscences, the first book, published in 1996... to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Grayson County. Another forty stories went into Texas Family Secrets (1997...). Texas Millennium Book (1999) featured stories by fifty writers. More Texas Family Secrets (2003

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... LIFELONG LEARNING | 145 LIFELONG LEARNING Telling Our Stories authors who contributed stories

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... was speechcharter member of Telling Our charter member of Telling Our less. When I realized that he meant it, I.... The nation still .eo ow struggled under a cloud of the Great Depression. The boys in our class went... shed tears ofjoy and hugged his neck. But Stories and has won many awards how could I do it...? for the stories she has entered in the for the stories she has entered in the "I have the money I was going..., in the fall of 1937, Stanley and I did the improbable thing: we packed our for Excellence in Autobiography

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... a variety of games all day Then that night the grownups put contributed several stories to previous Telling... Our Stories books. The group pictured is pupils and teachers at the Luella two-room school... : B As far back as I have records our family has, for the most part, lived in the country. My... reason Daddy sent my sisters to Choctaw School their last year. It was four miles west of our home... schoolhouses that I know of that are still standing. I remember my sisters telling me how the boys played

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... Telling Our Stories: Volume Five Remembering School Days AP; Edited byJerry B. Lincecum and Peggy

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... Remembering School Days Remembeing School Days Sponsored by Telling Our Stories, Austin College

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.... She has Our hometown was in the midst of a suburban explosion and our class was contributed stories... Our Stories book and on year. But we had the old campus with red brick buildings from the turn... 132 | REMEMBERING SCHOOL DAYS OUR SEASON by Julie Morris On a rainy melancholy afternoon I pulled... to each of the the last of the small town kids. The new second high school was to open the next Telling.... But it was the band hall, that white wooden building on the corner of the schoolyard, where our lives were focused

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.... In more than ten years of participation in Telling Our Stories, she has written dozens of stories and won... had just moved into our new house in what was called The West End. The West End was a neighborhood... community consisting of a Grocery and Feed store, a Meat Market and a small Lumberyard. Our house... was outside the Denison City Limits, so we were not allowed to attend the city schools. Our alternative... was the Coffman School and Church a mile or two west of our house. The land for the school and church had been

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... Telling Our feet long. In the front was a desk and chair for the teacher and a blackboard. On stories... Telling Our The school building was about twenty-five feet wide and maybe thirty-five eldesson. Sheoined... school at age six, but had to wait because I broke my arm falling off the rail fence around our yard. So... was pleased and put fear in you if you misbehaved. Every one liked her because we knew she had our welfare... and the other for boys. We got our water from a nearby well. The last time I visited the area the school

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..., andDenison. She was In our health class we discussed our menu, remembering the stories we had married... WHAT TEACHERS REMEMBER 53 OUR DAY OF THANKSGIVING by Thelma Harris It was in the fall of 1956... that my husband and I had just returned to our home in Arlington from a trip to West Texas and New Mexico... to the main building. It was during our American History class that I got excited and thought: "Why not have... our own Thanksgiving celebration remembering those early Pilgrims and Indians who began this tradition

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... syndrome;" and we will spend pleasant Sunday afternoons writing and chatting and "Telling Our Stories."... of our lives. It didn't matter that an orange crate, nailed to the outside sill of our kitchen window..., served as our refrigerator in the cold Missouri winter; or that we couldn't stand up straight in our tiny... to our apartment; or that our cooking was less than gourmet. They were all part of a memorable experience

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... detectors were unheard of. I'm glad I grew up back Our Stories class, Ruby wrote over then. No, we didn't... walked and carried our lunch in a brown bag. I With sunshine on thyface, remember coming home hungry... of our school years, Lewis and I were in the same grade. I always brought home a better report card than.... No one ever thought of bring years ofparticipation in the Telling ing a gun to school, and metal... have it easy, but we weren't worried about getting shot in 50 stories andpublished her own school

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... of the chalkboard and turned to face the class. Telling Our Stories contests and "I am unfamiliar with your... backgrounds in English," she said as she walked published stories in theirprevious to the front of the desk... very little homework to do for this class. Most of the writing will be done during our class-time

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... Belmont" after "Belmont," who was a leading character in a romance the Telling Our Stories project... :d Mother and her stories about my grandmoth er. To my great disappointment, Maude had died before I

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... CUMULATIVE INDEX 169 CUMULATIVE INDEX C..?'* o.;...Telling Our Stories, Volumes

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... admired my pink toenails. My hair was adorned story to thefirst Telling Our with a soft pink ribbon which... Flag ." the children's voices said in unison. Holding right hands firmly over our hearts, we recited... the pledge together. Pledges to our country and to the Bible followed; the usual summer Vacation Bible School... or sundresses, sandals and always wanting to be a writer ponytails were our casual attire. Quietly sitting... matched the short set I'd picked out the night Stories book in 1996 and has had before. By quickly moving

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... awards with Telling Or way; our year on stage began. Stories, including the Hastings The class... and enjoying their Our teacher was a veteran of many years in the classroom and inspired congrandchildren... MusicalArts Singers and keep the warmth from our stage lights in our area as much as possible. In winter..., is a member of the Dallas chapter of our mothers were encouraged to dress us in really warm clothing. When... looked up, we saw the beautiful stage lights in bright colors and our teacher hung pictures on the many

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... I you can never be, I had a mother who active participant in Telling Our read to me." Stories... of our car as it bounced along a dusty county road. It was September and the year was 1942. This day...'s dress. In 1942 our country was at war, and it was a Shirley Clark is afifth-generation time... of sacrifice. Fabric was not readily available. When the shops in our small Texan who grew up on afarm

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... Telling Our Stories contests, grades. Miss Romy taught the first five grades in one room... purse. and MS degrees in mathematics Miss Romy was our next-door-neighbor, and I guess she was almost.... Mrs. Landers, Larry's Excellence in Autobiography mother, cooked our lunches in the cafeteria. Mr... five tables in our room, one for each grade, and we all hustled to our assigned tables and sat down

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... scholarly books and the author of several scientific articles. as well as five Telling Our Stories... came to our neighborhood once a week. To my great surprise, I learned recently that it still does