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class, and try to ignore him and work when he was teaching the other classes,” recalled Lewis. Lewis and another former student tried to recall when indoor plumbing was added to the school, estimating that it was in the early to mid 1960s, in the last few years before the school closed. They recalled the desks, the wooden kind with a metal rack underneath where you slid your books in when you sat down. Mrs. Bingham and later Mrs. Austin were Lewis’ teachers at Scrabble.
Many of these stories were recorded by audio and video means as the beginning of the “history harvest” that will be continuing under the direction of Scott French and Scott Mathews of the Woodson Center for African and African-American Studies (UVAj.
Bob Lander, President of the Foundation, announced that he signed the memo of understanding with the Center for this research to continue for the foreseeable future. All the information collected will be given to the Foundation for the Scrabble School archives. Lander remarked, “This day is the culmination of about two
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