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Memories of the
1940s
We started first grade at what was then called Marshall Laboratory School. The school grades were gradually added with the high school grades, with classes being held in the regular college classrooms from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. each day. My grandmother, Harriot Lyon, was principal of the elementary school and Miss Faulk was principal of seventh through eleventh grades. One memory of the high school principal stands out. One afternoon in my seventh grade I was playing football with the “guys” and Miss Faulk called me into her office. She told me that if my grandmother wasn’t the elementary school principal, she would suspend me as girls do not play football. Oddly enough I went on to become a teacher of physical education and coached girls’ volleyball and track and field. During my college years I also helped in the biology lab, majoring in physical education, math and biology. Since the early forties were war years, I graduated in three years, going three regular terms and two summers. Coach Cam Henderson was one of our college idols, as well as Ms. Louise McDonough, our PE teacher and mentor, an inspiration for me. My younger sisters, Natalie and Harriet, were also Marshall grads. Sadly, they are deceased. Sammy Clagg and Bob Gibson were great college friends and we still keep in touch. Also, Bob White and other Marshall friends now in a Huntington retirement community, keep each other updated, along with Marshall grads Betty Jean Brown Hix and Marge Willis Enicks. Although it was hard during the war years, the forties at Marshall were still the “good ole days” for many of us. Many thanks to all the teachers we had, and my sorority sisters at Sigma Sigma Sigma. And the other educational organizations. Now, at age 82, I still try to “practice what I preached” and I figure if “we don’t use it we’ll lose it.” So, I play golf at least three days a week and do my mileage walking at our local mall on the days I don’t play golf. So, Marshall – Thanks for the Memories! |
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Reading
Walter Caldwell’s “Class of ’47 Memories” was fascinating to me
and brought back many of my own fond memories. I was also a
student at Marshall in the forties with even a longer record
than just college days. Mary Ellen Wise and I were the first
students to go from first grade through college at Marshall.     |