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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.