Friends still pop up!

So who should walk into my shop but Katya Shoemaker. Blue Clan Chieftain and someone that all my class looked up to. She is now living on the Northern Neck of Virginia. She had moved here from Charlottesville Va. The nice thing about running a shop is that you never know who will walk in the door next.   Both Carter Grandy and Edith Burrow have happen into the store as well. One of my best friends Ellen Holt and her sister, also a great friend, both attended The Graham School before I did. They transferred to Saint Margaret's in Tappahanock Va.  Ellen and I met when she went back to college at Old Dominion.  We sat together at Bud's snack bar. We started talking and she said that she had attended The Graham School.  I saud that I had also gone to The Graham School and that I never remembered seeing her there. School as a common link we became fast and true friends.

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There were only twelve of us and I was a good student but not the highest achiever. I've always been able to brag that I was in the top 10 of my class, only to admit that that was not such a great feat since there so few in our class. In fact there were several high achievers in the class I would have been lucky to have been in the top 1/2.

It was only after I had finished my schooling that I realized what a great back ground for life I had been granted by attending The Graham School. Years later I actually realized that I was smarter than a lot of people.

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These young ladies received a classical education. We were required to take six full years of Latin. I never really understood what taking a dead language would do for me. However, while majoring in Art History in College I learned that I could read a lot of Italian when studying Renaissance Art. I also realized that my scores on the English S.A.T.'s were greatly improved by those Six years of Latin. At the time I would have rather done something else. Especially at exam time. I think I tried to memorize Cesar's Gallic Wars in English in order to just pass Latin.

We Also took three years of French. Our English courses required a lot of writing and reading. All those book reports helped me be able to write and think well too. My math teacher Miss Batten was Walter Reed's granddaughter, she never mentioned this. The school was run by two old maid sisters the Misses Grahams. Miss Sarah was the oldest and the head mistress her sister Miss Cary taught lower grade English. I remember what a stickler she was for grammar.

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The Graham School, in Norfolk Va., was the center of my life as a young girl. The Graham School was an institution or maybe a relic from the Victorian era. This was a school for young ladies. When I attended the school there were about 65 students total with grades seventh through twelfth.