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er played the piano, and the children were led in singing sacred and patriotic songs.
Teachers invited
If you know anyone who was teaching at Sperryville in the old days, please make sure he or she knows about the July 19 reunion. Lucia Kilby was there. She was a student until graduation in 1942 and later was a teacher half of her work week and a librarian the other half.
Mrs. Kilby remembers that Sperryville was a school for white students only. As she put it, “We didn’t have forced integration until the consolidated elementary school opened” in the late 1960s.
She also remembers a May Day celebration: “We always had a lovely May Day program” with dances and music and, of course, a May Pole.
Many stories
The reunion is the place to tell, and hear, the stories of those formative years. Carolyn Thornton, who lived on F. T. Valley Road, remembers the
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