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"I started teaching in Bluffton schools in 1951-52. I taught fourth grade and in my first class there were 41 children. The room I had in the old grade school had only windows in the back. With 41 children, the room was crammed full. The rest rooms were in the basement.

"However, my fourth grade students were very good students. When I mean my classroom was crammed, I didn’t even have room for a table. It was wall-to-wall kids. There were huge blackboards with chalk. Although the desks had a hole for inkwells, we didn’t use the inkwells. We had ball point pens.

"I had an extra year of college, so they paid me $2,500 my first year. There were no medical benefits and I can’t think of any other benefits we had.

"In my first year I had two twins in my class – Connie and Nancy Patterson. Thy were kind of jokers. In the first week of school they switched seats on me."
- Clarence Kooker

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• Roots by Strattons
• The Food Store
• The Black Lab
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