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“In the winter we had a kettle on the stove,” Cornell said. "Then we could heat up a can of beans to go with our biscuits.”
Miss Phoebe Green who attended the Amissville school still relishes the biscuits with cold sausage she carried in her bucket to school for ten years at Amissville. “I still love them — biscuits with sausage, biscuits with beef, biscuits with preserves. That’s what we took for lunch back then. Biscuits and a piece of cake or a cookie. Only we didn’t call them cookies. They were sugar cakes and they were always homemade. And an apple always went along with lunch.”
Much later, efforts to establish a school lunch program met with opposition from the community. Ruby Jenkins reports that an anonymous benefactor donated the money for hot lunches at the Washington School. A school lunch committee used these funds to set up and operate a cafeteria in the early fifties, before the government provided such a program.
Discipline
Discipline was a touch subject from the very beginning. When Anne Keyser first arrived at Battle Run School she replaced Miss Mary Bruce. What she didn’t know was that Miss Bruce had been severely beaten by ‘‘the biggest, fattest women you ever saw.” She was afraid to return.
Young Anne Keyser found out when she disciplined the same woman’s son. She asked the young man (who had tipped over a farmer’s cream in the spring house) to stay after shcool. A fifthgrade girl returned to warn her: “His mama beat up Miss Mary. You’d better not touch that boy!”
“What they didn’t know what that I was not a beater,” Mrs. Keyser said. “I talked to that boy. I said, ‘Now do you like sweet potatoes?’
‘Yes, Ma’am.’
‘Now, do you like butter on your sweet potatoes?’
‘Yes, Ma’am’
“And so on until I convinced the boy that wihout cream, the farmer didn’t have butter for his sweet potatoes or biscuits. Now, that was something he could understand.”
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