my early school days

I started school in 1945 at West Ward School in Comanche.  After two days in first grade I was moved to second grade since I already knew how to read. So my teacher was Mrs. Dean.  The following year in third grade I had the principal, Mr. Brown for arithmetic.  We learned the multiplication tables that year.  My third grade teacher was Berta Goodson.

I LOVED SCHOOL!!!

My uncle Edward took this picture of me in the back yard of his home at the Atwood Hatchery in Comanche.  I hope you can click on it and see it large because I had a really happy smile that day.

Patsy's school pictures

The picture on the right was made for my first year of school when I was in second grade. (Because I already know how to read, I was moved from first grade to second grade on my third day of school.)

My mother had insisted on getting me a permanent wave and this is how my hair turned out.  This was the first and only perm I got with one of those old-fashioned machines with all the curlers on wires hanging down.  I was petrified.

Somehow it looks like I always wound up wearing checks.  I never noticed it till now.