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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.