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both the Sperryville and Washington schools—‘‘to accommodate male students”—with one instructor filling both positions.

‘‘We were like one big family,” recalls a former teacher who enjoyed the atmosphere of community kinship which pervaded the early school system. Numerous items—even small ones such as basketballs—had to be worked for. "We all had to work together,” she added.

Though some graduating classes numbered as few as five members, early com

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