Mrs. Wade’s Sixth Grade, 1951

Jun 4, 2009 Schools Jump to Comments

Thirty-two faces from 58 years ago squint through the sunshine at the Kodak held by Chapel Hill Elementary School sixth-grade teacher Bernice Wade. The camera belonged to shutterbug Janet McAllister Anderson (back row, second from left) who says she used to take so many pictures that her friends nicknamed her “Snapper.” The classic three-story brick schoolhouse, with its black iron fire escape and coal truck out back by the concrete skating rink, was torn down to make way for University Square. In this snapshot from 1951-52, the class assembles near the present-day location of Ken’s Quickee Mart. Mrs. Wade, now 94 and well-known to Chapel Hill garden lovers, told me how my late brother, Nick, (second row, last on right) excelled in interpretive dance when Mrs. McCall brought out the silk scarves. The class includes, (front to back, left to right), Dina Schwarz, Blakely Leng, Ginger Kenny, Doris Mayse, Patricia Hunter, Wendell Merritt and Jimmy Mitas; (second row) Elaine Hartness, Lou Ellen Stewart, Ben Crutchfield, Ben Potter, Bill Ellis, Jack Berkut, Frank Weaver and Nick Lauterer; (third row) Sara Gay Lee, Susie Cordon, Gerry Ham, Ann Proctor, Karen LeMay, Martha Adams and Joyce Wilson; (back row) Linda Watts, Janet McAllister, Tony Maurice, Ruffin Harville, Neil Clark, Larry Mangum, Bobby Moore, Ronnie Vick, David Jones and John Howell.



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