EVERGREEN
SCHOOL
SOME THINGS PEOPLE REMEMBER AND HAVE WRITTEN
ABOUT
EVERGREEN.
NUMBER ONE WAS.......RECESS ! ! ! !
And some others in no certain order:
- MRS. SPARKS GOOD SOUP (MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES)
- SWINGING ON THE SWINGS BESIDE THE SCHOOLHOUSE
- SINGING HYMNS AFTER LUNCH
- GOING ACROSS THE ROAD TO THE BIG FIELD TO PLAY BALL
- GETTING TO SIT WITH
THE OLDER KIDS AND THE TIMES THEY HELPED ME WITH MY LESSONS
- GOING ACROSS THE ROAD
TO BERT PACK'S STORE AND BUYING A BOTTLE OF POP AND A MOON PIE
- THE FIELD MEETS WITH OTHER SCHOOLS FOR COMPETITION
- PIE SOCIALS TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE SCHOOL
- AND ONE THAT SEEMED SPECIAL TO MANY WAS THE CHRISTMAS PLAYS
- GOING UP ON THE BANK AND HAVING OUR LESSONS OUTSIDE
- RIDING SLEDS DOWNHILL IN THE SNOW
- AND THIS ONE WAS MENTIONED MANY
TIMES, BUT WITH RESERVATIONS: THE SCHOOL NURSE COMING AND
GIVING US OUR SHOTS.....OUCH!
- SWINGING ON GRAPEVINES UP ON THE HILL
- SPELLING BEES
- TRIPS TO THE BREAKS OF SANDY
- AND WHO COULD FORGET RING TOSS
- THE HUGE SANDWICHES AT PACK'S STORE
- 4-H EXPERIENCES COMPETING AT THE COUNTY FAIR AND STATE LEVEL
- THE "BIBLE MAN" MR.
TULEY.....THE
BIBLES AND OTHER PRIZES HE GAVE US FOR LEARNING BIBLE VERSES....AND IF
WE WERE DILIGENT ENOUGH WE WENT TO CAMP EVANGEL (SOME STILL
REMEMBER VERSES TODAY)
- THE BOOKMOBILE
- OUR TEACHER
INSPECTING OUR TEETH, EARS, HAIR AND NAILS TO BE SURE WE WERE
KEEPING THEM PROPERLY CLEAN
- THE "CATCH ALL BOX"
- THE "IN AND OUT" CARD.......DOES EVERYBODY REMEMBER WHAT THAT WAS?
- THE POT BELLY STOVE
WITH A RING AT THE TOP FOR HEATING THINGS....(WATER AND ORANGE PEELS)
- SWING SETS.....CHIN UP BARS.......TEETER TOTTERS......SEE SAWS
- FILMSTRIP PROJECTOR
WITH SLIDES
FROM WHICH WE LEARNED EVERYTHING FROM FARMING
TO GOLD AND SILVER
MINING (FROM MONIES RAISED FROM PIE SOCIALS)
- THE "PADDLE" ! ! !
- OUR FIRST (AND MAYBE OUR ONLY) ELECTRIC STOVE
- THE GREEN LIGHT FIXTURE OVER THE ENTRANCE DOOR
- THE CLOAK ROOM
- THE WATER BUCKET IN
THE BACK OF THE ROOM.....MAKE YOUR OWN CUP BY FOLDING NOTEBOOK PAPER
- WHITEWASHED ROCKS ON
THE HILL BESIDE THE SCHOOL THAT SPELLED OUT "EVERGREEN"
- CATCHING THOSE LITTLE
GRAY LIZARDS ON THE TREES BESIDE
THE SCHOOL
- MAKING CHRISTMAS
DECORATIONS WITH
NOTEBOOK PAPER, CONSTRUCTION PAPER, SPRAY PAINT AND NOODLE
SHELLS......DECORATING THE CHRISTMAS TREE......MAKING SNOW FOR THE TREE FROM WASHING POWDERS AND
WATER
- GOING UP IN THE HILLS AND GATHERING PLANTS FOR SCIENCE CLASS
- CLEANING AND OILING THE FLOOR TO KEEP DOWN DUST
- HAND PUMP OUTSIDE FOR GETTING WATER
- WINDOW WEIGHTS THAT
CLANGED WHEN RAISING AND LOWERING WINDOWS
- ABC'S AND 123'S
- THE 3 R'S
- SPREADING ASHES ON
THE PATHS OUTSIDE WHEN A SNOW WAS ON TO PREVENT SLIPPING
AND FALLING
- SIX LARGE WINDOWS ON ONE SIDE OF THE BUILDING AND SMALLER ONES UP HIGH ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE
- THE CHALKBOARD IN THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM
- THE TEACHER'S DESK IN THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM
- COMPTON'S PICTURED ENCYCLOPEDIA
- THE QUESTION NO ONE WANTED TO HEAR....."HAVE YOU GOT YOUR LESSONS!"
- AND EVERY SCHOOL, AS DID EVERGREEN, SHOULD HAVE A GLOBE
Definition of memory:
Retained
impression of particular event: the knowledge or impression that
somebody retains of a particular person, event, period, or subject
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