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Listen to Linda By Linda Mary Hatcher
Remembering School Days at Cold Springs by Linda Mary Hatcher We walked to school, one and a half miles
there and back. When I was in the fifth grade, we got to ride the bus. The bathrooms were outside boys on one
side the girls on the other. We played games like ante over, hopscotch, jack rocks, made playhouses with rocks,
the boys played mumbley peg with knives, marbles, baseball, or football. We got an outside basketball court
when I was in fifth grade.
Health was taught in the schools. You washed your hands before lunch, common sense was taught back then.
In the small schools9 parents were more likely to participate in activities. We had Christmas programs, Easter
eggs hunts, drew names at Christmas, and decorated for other holidays.
We started the day with the pledge of allegiance. A May queen was chosen from each room we only had two
rooms with a room divider that would open and make it one room. They would see who could raise the most
money for the school and they were declared the May Queen. Dorothy Hatcher was chosen the May Queen, I
think we were in the 6th grade.
When I was in the sixth grade Mr. Harrison, our teacher, bought a large yellow rabbit to raffle off. He sent the
sixth-grade girls around the area to sell tickets. One day, after lunch, we were going toward Keeble9s Chapel,
Louie Frye caught up with us when we got to Keeble9s Chapel. Joan told Louie he couldn9t go on to her house.
He said,