This is the class of 1962, in 1958-1959.  We would have been 9th graders.  The photo above is only half of that class.  The was when the public schools were integrated and there was a backlash.  The girls are from the top left across: Pearl Riggan, Dee Dee Jones, Carter Grandy, Robbie Coleman, Henrietta Heath, Leigh Lewis.  The bottom row left Sally Guy, Susan Raynor, Gin Gondor, Betsy Garrett.

This is the second half of that class.  The girls from the top left are, Jane Williamson, Madelyn Routhey (sp), Judy Howes, Margaret Strauss, Sandra Kropf (sp), Anne Ferguson.  The bottom left is Claudia Henderson, Liz Zetlin, Susan O'neil, Mary Hughes Gibbs, and Paula Abbott.

There were only eleven of us to graduate in 1962.  Sally returned to England with her parents.  The other girls left to return mostly to public school and Carter Grandy left to go to Madeira School.

As far as I know only Claudia Henderson and Betsy Garrett have passed away.

The teachers 2

The teacher's at The Graham School were a dedicated lot. 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 and History. I remember what a stickler she was for grammar.  Miss Sarah taught upper school English. Miss Osborne taught Latin and Ancient History. One of my favorite teachers was Miss Lily Jackson. She taught the lower school math. She also as I was to learn later was quite a wood worker carving small boxes out of fine woods with thistles or dogwood blossoms. I learn this after her death when I purchased a gift shop that had carried these boxes. Unfortunately it was only after I had sold them all, that I learned that she was the artist who had made them. She also produced our unique yearbooks bound with ribbons watercolor paper, illustrated with hand painted thistles on the cover. Another well loved teacher was Miss Batten. She went to my church, and it was through my grandmother that I had learned that her grandfather was the famous Walter Reed. Miss Batten played the piano and helped us yearly with our singing contest between the clans. The only full time married teacher was Caroline Tunstall or as we affectionately called her "Crow."  Crow taught beginning Latin and Biology, everyone loved her classes. After the school closed in 1963 she went back to college to get her Masters degree at Old Dominion College, while I was in attendance.

The Graham's by Guy Friddell

Guy Friddell, wrote an article about The Graham School in Norfolk back in the 1980's. I remember the one and only reunion as a very pleasant experience. It took place at the Norfolk Yacht and country club. Sue Mullins, Molly Holt and I rode in from the beach together. Mrs Deal, who produced the yearly plays for the Grahams, was the only teacher to attend. 

Miss Osbourne, taught us Latin. I still can recite by heart the first paragraph of Caesar's Gallic Wars. I really didn't learn my vocabulary as well as I should have. I panicked every time we had an exam, and memorized as much as I could. Very foolish girl.There was enough Latin that I managed to remember that ended up helping me greatly with my Art History classes in college.  It allowed me to read some Italian for Renaissance Art.