Libbie H

I went to Montrose from 3rd through 6th grade. (1966-1969).  I had Mrs. Hudson for 4th and 5th grade.  She had taught my older sister in 6th grade.  I also had Miss Shuttleworth in 6th.  My mother was a teacher there when they moved the deaf program there so I knew a lot of the teachers there even though they weren't mine.  I also  had Miss Womack for music.  Mrs. Ivens was the principal.  When the school was demolished in about 1980 they called my mother to see if there was anything from the school that she wanted as a memento. Mom chose one of the mosaic tile benches that sat in the corner of the courtyard.  When we moved Mom to nursing care a few years ago I took the bench so it now sits in my back yard.

How lovely that your mom got to take one of those benches, and that the bench lives on in your back yard!

Were the yellow rose bushes still in the courtyard? My parents planted them when I was in fifth or sixth grade. Mom was the head cheese of the gardening committee, and Daddy was pressed into the service of helping plant them. And did they still serve a really delicious spaghetti dish? In an old cookbook of my late mother's, I found a pencil-written recipe for "Montrose Spaghetti."