MY FIRST YEAR AT
ELMWOOD
by Blanche D. Epperson
(Elmwood Principal
1930-1953)
September, 1930, found a new teacher, a new school, a
new group of classes, combining to start the new school
year.
What a year it has been! So much has been done in these
months that the end of the term came before we really
expected it.
We have had our good and our blue days, but fortunately
the good days have gracefully overshadowed the others. I
feel at the end of the term that the children and I have
had a happy and profitable year.
It has been a pleasure to serve as Principal of Elmwood
School for the past year, and this has been entirely due
to the cooperation of a splendid corps of teachers, who
have been most helpful to the new principal.
To the graduating class my parting admonition is:
"Be honest, be true. Be straightforward, true blue."
Our hope for Elmwood for 1931 will be, a bigger and
better Elmwood, with all of us striving to surpass Old
Standards and reach new and higher goals.
EARLY ELMWOOD MEMORIES
by Diana Croce Miller
Kindergarten Teacher
I was in the
first Kindergarten class in the new Elmwood School 1949.
Mrs. Brown was the teacher. She played the piano and we
sang. Everyday, we had a snack of milk and crackers. We
played in the sandbox on the patio. We also took a nap
on small cots.
I remember practicing handwriting - a lot - in 1st
grade. My classroom was the same room that Mrs. Amen's
in today.
The principal, Mrs. Epperson had been my dad's teacher
when he went to the old Elmwood as a young boy. At that
time, we had a gymnasium with basketball hoops. It is
now our cafeteria.
On rainy days we went to the auditorium where we
watched movies on the big screen - like a real theater.
The seats went all the way up to the stage.
Elmwood was a pretty cool place to be. It still is. I
am proud to be a teacher here.
YEARBOOK FOREWORD
by The Graduating Class
of 1931
It is our
belief that a yearly record of the accomplishments of
the students of our school, not only in the school-room,
but on the playground, at home, at work and on various
excursions, picnics, etc. will be of benefit to our
followers through this great experience in life - eight
years in grammar school - and that such a record will be
of great value as memory-teasers in the days to come,
when you and I sit around the fireplace and dream of
"Dear Old Elmwood."
We, therefore, submit for your approval and, we hope,
your enjoyment, this, our first effort at an Annual. We
are proud of the fact that every grade has submitted
something for this edition. The young people in the
First and Second Grades have taken the same interest in
contributing as have the older pupils, and we thank them
all for their help.
Elmwood is indeed in having such wonderful instructors.
They have been patient when we seemed dull; tolerant
when we have been unruly; free with praise when we have
excelled; and continually have inspire us toward
perfection in our studies. |
