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softball and volleyball as well as boys’ baseball and basketball.

Simpsonville only had grades first through tenth.   After the tenth grade students who wanted to continue their education, would transfer to Union Hill or Gilmer.

One ex-student of Simpsonville recalls when the mothers of students started serving hot lunches at the school.  A portion of one of the rooms was used to prepare and serve meals.  Her favorite “cooks” were Neppie Blundell and Ida Bell Calvert.

didn’t know until I showed my father, Aron Tucker, that the good looking gentleman on the top row at the left was his father, Samuel Clarence Tucker!

If any of you alumni or other readers have stories to share or pictures that I can scan for our Union Hill’s scrapbook, please contact me, Laura Crone, at (903) 762-2138, ext. 206.

 

Pictured to the right is one of the oldest pictures that has been shared with me.  It is a picture of the Brumley school in 1901.  I

DOES ANYONE HAVE PICTURES OR FACTS TO SHARE?

SIMPSONVILLE SCHOOL 1931

Everett Dean