Growing Up in Williamsport, Ohio

School Discipline
 
Mrs. Winona Ramsey and Fourth Grade
 
I saw a lot of Mrs. Ramsey in the fourth grade, mainly because I was sick and had to stay in at recess and lunch. She let me draw from an industrial flip art piece. That doesn’t sound interesting but it was. I think it may have come from someplace like Buckeye Steel and depicted drawings of the iron melting process which was entirely new to me. I have always said that I know a little about a lot of things….mainly because I’m interested in a lot of things.
 
I am not a person who got in trouble but one day, Norma Jean Whaley and I were disciplined for talking to each other in class. We both had to stand in a corner for it. I was mostly mortified because it all happened in front of “my sweet babboo”, Johnny Wing, and I was embarrassed. 
 
Mrs. Metzger and the Eighth Grade
 
I got in trouble again in the eighth grade. One day a couple of the girls, probably Edmona Self and Judy Anderson, spearheaded an effort to wear jeans to school. Alice Rigsby and I and the rest of us thought it was a good idea, so the next day all of us girls wore jeans. We thought we were getting away with it until recess. We were told that we had to go home and change our clothes. We did and we never tried that again.
 
My daughter Michele asked, “What did your Mother and Dad think of that? I said, “I don’t remember but my Mother was very easy going and she and my Dad probably laughed.”

©Marilyn Francis Ferguson 2020
Photography/graphics by Michele Ferguson Schuck