Marion School

Con’t

How I remember recess! We jumped rope while the boys played marbles. Paul had a drawer full of marbles in his room (lots of commies). One day I went into his room and took several commies. They were pinkish and cream colored, smooth, about the size of cranberries. As we walked to school that morning I displayed them and I was surprised that he knew where I had gotten
them.

I remember the pear tree on the school grounds. In the fall pears covered the ground with honey bees buzzing over them.

In the upper grades, we played soft ball. On friday we sometimes walked to Fallen Timbers to play a game. Helen and Hoffa SULLIVAN were superb players. The could knock the ball out of the park.

Marian COX was my favorite teacher. She made a bulletin board and she taught us about art. Her father drover her each day from New Geneva. Sometimes he was cranky if she kept him waiting.
Kate DAVIS came in 3rd grade. She had a bright smile and talked a lot. Later, when I graduated from high school in Moundsville, WV, she saw Mother in Nilan and suggested that I get a summer job with the Hot Shoppes in Baltimore and Washington D.C., owned by Marriott’s because they welcomed college girls. That too is another story

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