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Rappahannock News File Photo GRADUATE: Marilyn PorterPrice’s graduation photo as published in the Rappahannock News 1971.
We couldn’t eat in the lunch room. They’d throw food at us, so we had to eat in the bathroom. Boys would line the hall, shove a lesser one of their own into us while they were trying to walk to class,” she recalled.
Pushing an unpopular kid into the black kids, to the laughs and jeers of the other students seemed to kill two birds with one stone - harassing the blacks and humiliating the white kid by contaminating him with black “cooties”. They also endured spitballs on a daily basis.
Although Porter-Price remembered feeling that “the principal didn’t seem to care about what was happening,” on the whole, the staff of the school was more professional, and not so overtly hostile as the students.
“The teachers, they dealt with us, I guess because they had to,” surmised PorterPrice who did have very fond memories of one teacher in particular.
“One teacher, Mrs. Myra F. Wolf, I’d like to see if she’s still around. She lived in Woodville'. She would talk to us if she could catch us by ourselves, without anyone else around,” recollected
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