The Erath Observer (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1975 Page: 5 of 12
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The year I was to
enter the 4th grade
we were put on a
bus route and I
joined my friends
in riding the long
yellow bus to town
to school.My pa-
rents thought I
would get a better
education in the
new three story
brick building in
town than in the
two-room qhite
clapboard with 4
grades in one room.
Other parents
thought the same,
and so Midway close*
its doors during
the following year.
School in town
was o.,.but the
parents were wrong
in thinking that
the size of the
school determines
the size of the
education,because
its teachers like
Miss Bess and not
the equipment and
buildings that make
a school. ....
I have only onel
regret when I thinN
of that teacher of
long ago. I never
did tell her what
a good teacher she
was and hpw much
she helped me, but
then maybe she
already knew.
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Her name was Miss Bess and during
all the years I have spent in the
classroom,! have never met a teacher
I consider her equal. She probably
wasn't more than 20 at the time,but
we all thought she was an old maid
and it came as a terrible shock some
years later when I learned she had
married after all.
Miss Bess taught the primary room
in Midway School,the white clapboard
two room structure I attended for
two years. There were 4 grades in
her room and therefore 4 rows of
desks. Being in the 2nd grade,I sat
on the second row from the door.
Since my surname was Chandler,! sat
in the second seat--the first being
reserved for Evelyn Bagley.There was
usually a Love on each row in both
rooms since there were 20 children
with 1 father and 2 mothers (one was
dead) in that family.! always thought
that Love was a very good name for a
family with 20 children and nothing
they ever did made me think otherwise
Miss Bess liked to read and so we
all spent a lot of time reading,or
being read to.We didn't have any
preparation for learning to read;she
issued a book to everyone and we all
learned to read.If any first graders
learned to read 2nd grade books,why
then they read with the 2nd grade and
2nd graders could read 4th grade
___books if they could keep up with th
that class.I don't remember anyone
who didn't learn to read,they simply
read in whatever class they liked.
Another thing Miss Bess did was
give rewards for learning.There was a
whole lot of "carrots" in her me-
thod and very little "sticks".She
kept a chart tacked to the front
bulletin board with everyone's name
printed in India ink down the left
side.Across from each pupil’s name
was a series of stamps of animals,
flowers,stars and other figures to
represent various accomplishments.
Tor example,you got a bird for every-
day you came to school.You got a st.r
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for every time you read without mis-
sing a word.You got a flower for
making 100 in arithmetic and so on.
At the end of the designated time,I
believe it was two weeks,the person
whose name hed the most characters
stamped opposite it got a prize.
No award received in later years
meant more to me than the red pencil
box she presented me for the most i
100’s in arithmetic.That prize made
me love math forever.
Miss Bess directed us in all types
of competition for the Interscholasti
League meet held in Vernon every
Spring. We had a choral group and
the songs learned t en are still
remembered, and sung to my grandson
today. We competed in picture memory
and the paintings and artists studied
formed a basis for art appreciation
and interest for a lifetime.
We dug up ant hills and put them
in gallon glass jars so we could
watch their activity and she read to
us about their life in the colony
while we sat in a circle to watch
them work.We made salt maps of the
world and named the mountain ranges
as we formed them with our own hands.
There wasn't any money for art
supplies at our little school,but
with newspaper and flour paste we
constructed vases for our mother's
Christmas.In the giant sand table at
the back of the room,we built Panama
Canals and reconstructed battle of
the revolution.lt didn't matter that
geography and history were not 2nd
grade subjects.We did this as a re-
sult of stories she read to us.If
the fourth grade had to learn a
poem,anyone in the room could learn
it if he wanted to.
If I could sum up the greatest
attribute belonging to Miss Bess,I
would say she made each student fee)
worthy.She never made a pupil feel
that his question was stupid or
unimportant.Good points were found
in everyone and those accomplish -
ments were rewarded.
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Lancaster, Barbara. The Erath Observer (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1975, newspaper, February 13, 1975; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1528062/m1/5/?q=%22songs%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Erath County Genealogical Society.