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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
Rappahannock N«n Contributing Writer
When Sheila Smith, a second-grade teacher at Rappahannock County Elementary School, began taking an Emergency Medical Technician course in January, her only intention was to be more active in the Amissville Fire Department.
Instead she became one of the first teachers in the school’s history to restore life to a lifeless child.
It happened on March 7, but just last Saturday the School Board formally commended the three teachers and one nurse involved in the momentous event.
It took place in the kindergarten class taught by Marty Cannon, now in her ninth year as a teacher. When a class video ended, Mrs. Cannon switched on the lights and asked her students to get ready for their next task. One child, a 5-year-old girl, seemed to be sleeping on the floor in front of the TV.
Mrs. Cannon walked to the child, cheerily calling her name. Then she knelt beside her and began rubbing her arms and speaking more urgently, trying to wake her from what appeared to be a deep sleep. As Mrs. Cannon gathered the child into her arms, she realized with horror that the girl was unconscious.
Mrs. Cannon knew that Geraldine Payne, who teaches in the neighboring classroom and who has advanced certification in emergency medical procedures, was absent. So she quickly carried the girl across the hall, opened the door to Mrs. Smith’s room and said, “I need help.”
Mrs. Smith hustled to the door, took one look at the girl, and carried her back to Mrs. Cannon’s room, out of the path of people in the hallway.
“I started doing all the things you are trained to do,” she recalls. “I did an initial assessment [in which she found no pulse|
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