The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-04-30
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By CAROLN LLOYD

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nlsoeacss q younger DAYS work
Up % husbands, Children clothes
houses and gardens; and there Is
never Z dull moment. Anyone
living within Z radius Of two
blocks Of Harriet Eez-o1's house
win testify that there wasn't 2
6-u moment ths-e during the
past week end, when Just slca
4 reunion took place.
Kost Of the group were BON
n BelhsTea and eventually
came 70 the kindergarten age, II
which tine or grateful mothers
TUNED Us over 20 Mrs Tnad
Bloun+ Her influence was 50
great that none Of Us have eyG
forgotten those days and We were
tempted 70 sit down and plait
some little baskets from STRIPS Of
coO-ed paper Just 70 show her.
From kindergarten We descended
on the Belhaven Public School
and what z year that must have
been. The outstanding memory
there IS that certain member q
the group was so belligeTent that
the rest Of US were punished for
our nisdoings by being made 70
share one Of the double desks
with her. Another memory was
Of the little boy VINO didn't want
TO sing the windmill song, with
or without gestures. The teacher
sent for the principal. who made
the boy stand before the class
and sing alone, the principal
punctuating each windmill ges-
ture with a good sharp blow on
the rear. We decided that accord
ing to modern child psychiatry
we should all be no more than
nigh grade morons because dis
cipline was truly of the old-fash-
toned kind in those dogs.
The mothers who worry today
because their children seem fas-
cinated by the big ditch that ies
between Kiefer's and the old
school grounds can take hear
from the fact that their children
seem to have little better
judgement than some had in the
past Il is difficult to imagine {
charming natron of today as the
little girl who once emerged
from Wynne's Gut covered with
the green slime that seems pc.
culiar to that particular ditch
The little. girl, whose name was
Mary, was on one end of a board
that hung over the ditch. On ths
other end were several of hel
classmates, two of whom are now
respected teachers of other little
girls. The bell rang to announce
the end Of recess, and they
knowing that hardness was the
unforgivable sin, jumped from
the board and ran. You can i'm
Iagine the rest.
There were other memories o.
fits of giggling in church, of the
first boy crazy" days, of living
room furniture scuffed by the
awkward feet of teen-age dan
GERS, of the day dreams and am
billions of pre-college days. And
then we were grown-or though
we were-and went away to col
llege, much younger than the av
erage college student of today, anC
felt hopelessly lost for awhile
away from the protective atmos
lphere of home and family. Onl,
lone of us realized her expressed
ambition-to get married and hav'
la family; the ballet dancer, tn