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and even having her spend the night.
Shirley Brown Kushner and most other siblings loved school. One brother, Benjamin, did not share that attitude and stopped daily at the Estes Store (now the Sperryville Post Office). Quaintance called daily and asked if Benjamin were there. After receiving the expected affirmative reply, Quaintance asked if they would please tell him to come to school and he did. Quaintance later told Shirley’s mother that “Benjamin was the only student she had to invite to school every day.”
Among the fond memories of several students were playing outside during recess, learning to jump rope (including Double Dutch taught by Lee Smoot, according to Lee Anna) and roller skating to the Thornton River, where Shirley Kushner reports, her “cousin gave me a little push, right into the river.” Florine Estes, a 1945 graduate, loved to sneak across the river during lunch to buy candy at the Comer Store. She also used to love Maypole Day and said it was very difficult to go around the Maypole and not get the streamers twisted. That tradition continued in the early 1960s when Carolyn Tholand Thornton, Daisy Jenkins Huff and Susie Jenkins Coffey recalled getting “all dolled up for the May Court,” getting a
See SCHOOL, Page B5
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