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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

Marie was very religious and taught the Sunday School class for senior women at Parkview
Baptist Church. Marie used to joke, “When they graduated from my class, they went to Heaven!”

For 11 years, Marie has been a resident at Tanglewood Nursing Home. Fellow retired teachers honor

Marie’s long service to the school by taking turns paying her annual dues and Pat Pollitt paid them
this year.
CCREA members who taught the most years are Clarice Evans (45 years), Flossie Brown (45

years), Evelyn Metzger (46 years), Minnie Ruth McGhin (48years), and Margaret Chandler (49).
Clarice, Flossie, Minnie Ruth and Margaret taught at Melrose most of their careers and Evelyn

Metzger taught mainly at Central and Five Points. Incredibly, Evelyn Metzger taught 46 years, then
became a volunteer at Five Points for more than 20 years so she has a total of more than 66 years of

service to our school community - and she still volunteers, at age 87!
COLUMBIA CITY SCHOOL ... In case you missed the Open House at Columbia City

Elementary School October 23, here are several highlights of information of the new school. Opened
September 12 with a faculty of 36 teachers, 695 students, and anon instructional staff of 23. The

school has 35 acres of land, cost $7.3 million to build, has 86,141 square feet. There is a 100 square
foot storage closet, and a bathroom in each classroom, and a telephone in each planning area. Each

primary and intermediate classroom has at three Macintosh computers and a printer for teacher and
student use. The school has closed circuit instructional television and cable and satellite
accessibility.

There are several interesting human aspects to the new school. Teacher Marion Wright grew
up on the property behind the school where she now teaches. Shirley Jenkins used to attend the

“old” Columbia City School, now teaches at the new one. Roy Dicks used to teach at the old school,
then became principal at Melrose Elementary, where his assistant principal was Linda Sue Felder,
now the new school’s principal. Finally, Drexel Roberts attended the open house and brought with

him the actual school bell and a blue back speller his father had used while a teacher at the Claywood
School, near the old Columbia City School, out on the Athens Church Road near Evergreen

Cemetery.
CLOSING LINE . .. Church member to usher: “I’d like a seat in the non snoring section,
please.”

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