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Photo courtesy of Nina Bischoff Friend

Borden Springs School House
Borden Springs, Alabama
Date Built: Unknown

The school was there in 1958 when I visited class with my uncle Dale who attended there.  My grandmother Christine Lorren drove a/the school bus
(see photo below), and I remember riding the school bus with her on many
mornings.  Once at the school, I was allowed to roam freely...I loved recess time when my uncle Dale and Roy and Troy Beechum would gather in the school yard to shoot marbles - how I, a silly little girl, WANTED to have my own marbles!  I never did get the marbles, but I did get a whole bunch of memories.

Nina (Bischoff) Friend wrote, "....My sister (Donna Bischoff) does have an old school annual somewhere in her attic of the school in Borden.  I think I might have been in the 2nd or 3rd grade and Mrs. ENGLAND was our teacher.  This was a 3 room school house that I always had hopes that someone would restore and maybe make a house or something out of it but instead it was torn down. There are pictures of the Beecham twins playing marbles (my note: I have a photo of them and my uncle playing marbles in front of the school that I need to scan and put up), of the 4H girls and I guess you know 4H was a big thing back then...." (see photo
below)

Donna Bischoff Bass has been wonderful in sending a lot of information my way.  She wrote in email this evening (June 16, 2002), "Mom stated the school house that we have a picture of is the second school.  The first burned!  It was built on the area.  Mom taught at the first school at the age of 16.  She went to Heflin and was given a paper to substitute when a teacher was out.  Mom taught at the old school that burned.  She thinks the new school was built just like the old one.  Same "H" design.  It was in the middle to late '30's on the same land."

Row against windows starting from right to left.
 

Troy BEECHAM (twin)	fifth grade
Roy BEECHAM  (twin)	fifth grade
Dennis EDWARDS	fifth grade
Travis CHAPMAN	fifth grade
Mickey WILLIAMS	fifth grade
Elaine FORSYTH	fifth grade
Linda PIPER	fifth grade
?	?
Octavia CRAWFORD	fifth grade
Jimmy CRAWFORD	third grade
Larry GLASS	second grade
Marvin CHAPMAN	second grade
Mary Jane CHEEKS	second grade
Mrs. England	(grades 1,2,3)
Kathy LORREN	second grade
Patricia WEEMS	second grade (holding plate in front of Mrs. England)

Children sitting in desk from right to left:

Sara Jane COLEY	fourth grade
Wanda Lou GLASS	fourth grade
Jill POLLARD	fourth grade
Dianne ARRINGTON	fourth grade
Jimmy HEADRICK	fourth grade
Roy WILLIAMS, JR.	fourth grade

4 children in left hand side:
 

Jerry EDWARDS	second grade
Helen HEADRICK	second grade
Donna BISCHOFF	second grade
Mary Elizabeth SMITH	third grade

Making paper-plate people was part of the Art Department at Borden Springs School.  This must have been taken in October because of the Halloween bats and owls on the windows.  (notice man's picture hanging
on wall......this was Sam POLLARD)

This photo of me appeared in the 1958 Borden Springs Annual along with other under school age children under the title "FUTURE PROSPECTIVES"