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From: "Nancee\(McMurtrey\)Seifert" <>
Subject: Re: [IADECATU] A COLLECTION OF RECOLLECTIONS by LaNelle Cartwright Buckingham
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:22:17 -0500
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Thanks again, Jackie -- These are just wonderful! Nancee

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From: "Jackie Goeken" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:12 PM
Subject: [IADECATU] A COLLECTION OF RECOLLECTIONS by LaNelle Cartwright
Buckingham


> More from A COLLECTION OF RECOLLECTIONS by LaNelle Cartwright Buckingham
1976 - 1977
>
>
> BRADNEY cont.
>
> Honors appreciated in our school were having permission to dust the
erasers or go after a bucket of water. A stick was placed through the bail
of the bucket for easier carrying by the smaller folks. As a rare
privilege, you might be allowed to pass the water.
>
> The Palmer Method of Penmanship was in vogue. We had a copy book, and
some time was spent in practicing ovals and up and down movements. We were
required to hold our pen in a certain position and use arm muscles in a
relaxed way.
>
> It always seemed to me that each person should have a neat, individual
style of writing, rather than encouraging every person to have the same
style. I have known a few persons who did, what was called ornamental
writing.
>
> On Friday, after the last recess, we had a complete change of pace. We
ciphered, spelled down, or hunted Geography names. Sides were chosen in
Ciphering or Spelling. When we ciphered, the smaller children from each
side went to the blackboard first. The one who lost, chose someone from his
side, who in turn, decided whether they would compete in addition,
subtraction, multiplication, or division.
>
> Concentration and speed were in evidence until one of the contestants
yelled "Answer". Meanwhile, there was not a sound in the room except the
sound of chalk on the blackboard. The first with the correct answer
remained at the board, and if he happened to be skillful in Arithmetic, he
might cipher against most of the opposing side.
>
> If there was a spare minute during the day, the teacher might give us some
mental Arithmetic problems.
>
> Slates and slate pencils were much used for practicing lessons.
>
> There were two types of Spelling Contests for Friday afternoon. The
teacher pronounced words or we spelled Railroad fashion. In the latter
contest, the next person spelled a word beginning with the last letter of
the word just spelled. We secretly looked up all the words we could find
which ended with X. After a while, it was difficult to think of words
beginning with X.
>
> In Geography Hunts, we were a little crafty. We hunted towns in obscure
places on the map. They were placed on the Board in this fashion: C-----o.
The first to locate the city was allowed to put the next city on the
Blackboard.
>
> On rare occasions, Rural Schools competed with each other on Friday
afternoons. It was on one of these occasions that I earned my first dollar,
in a spelling contest. The silver dollar looked as big as a cart wheel to
me.
>
> To be continued.
> __________________________________________
>
> Copied by Jackie Moore Goeken: A Cartwright Descendant.
> *(I suppose competition with other Rural Schools is where the Spelling Bee
came from. I remember practicing our spelling words at home, by writing the
words over and over until I had the words memorized. I then had my mom
pronounce the words to me and I spelled each word for her. Spelling tests
were every Friday at LeRoy School.)
>
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