Lois Albury with Roadman
School in the background. |
Girls Club at Roadman School,
1938-1940.
Back Row: (L-R) Estelle Glades,
Elle Goddard, Lois Dolphus.
Front Row: (L-R) Dorothy Clark,
Virginia Clark, Altamese Cooper.
Teacher: Lillian Bryant
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Mary Albury & Joyce or Lois.
Dixie Manor and Roadman
School in the background.
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The first school for Pearl City residents. |
“It was hard teaching back in those days. ...We had kids coming from Sugar Hill. …Kids walking from Yamato to school here in Pearl City. …Kids from over on the West Side, she had the kids from over on the East Side. They didn’t have a bus or anything. They had to walk.”
“Mr. Alex Hughes was the first person to start getting a school here for the blacks. …it seems to me that they first had school…in the Methodist church, until they built a school … on 11th Street . The name of the school at first was Boca Elementary and then they changed the name to Roadman. … It was moved to Dixie Highway and … a little rock road (now Glades Road ). I can remember one of my teachers was named Mrs. E. W. Ashley, that was the meanest woman in the world. She is the one that caused me to graduate and go to Delray High. She wasn’t mean, she was strict. …She was one teacher in the school with about 52 students, from first grade to ninth. We were not only spanked but also got a palmetto rod. …Mrs. Ashley had a whip that she used which wasn’t bad. But we got spankings. A school day lasted from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM .” |
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Mary Albury |
Joyce & Lois Albury, Roadman School in the background.
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Side of Roadman School,
playground can be seen in the
background. |
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Gary Dolphus, Leroy Miller on
‘wheels’ (Roadman School
in background) |
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“…an older kid in the higher grade would listen to the younger ones. Mrs. Ashley would give them work…and then she would do the other classes. She would spend so many minutes…with the class and then she would give work to do. She was really organized. None of the kids went lacking, they all learned under her.” |
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