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volunteered to start the fire each morning and the girls swept and dusted the athool. The desks were wide benches, each shared by three or four pupils. “Fortunately,” said Mrs. Keyser, “I only had five grades to teach that year.” Battle Run School was closed the following year and Mrs. Keyser took a position teaching the third, fourth and fifth grades at what was then Washington High School. Here she remained to teach five years, then assumed duties in Sperryville Elementary School to teach the fourth grade and retained that status for thirteen years.
In 1939 Mrs. Keyser went to Warren County where she was employed as instructor alternating yearly with the fourth and fifth grades at Front Royal Elementary School. She remained in this school for seven years which took her through a flood, a fire and World War U. Torrential rains one spring resulted in a flood of the valley and Front Royal was submerged beneath the murky water. This necessitated the innoculation of all teachers and students against typhoid fever, so a clinic was set up in the school. Many of the youngsters suffered a reaction from the typhoid shots and
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