Children gather upstairs in Ramsey Hall

                The Camden High School Class of 1966 celebrates its 50th year in 2016 - 50 years since one lovely evening in May we walked across the stage set up on the football field at Coleman Stadium.

Included in the book The House on Harrison Street 

is this photo: FRONT ROW: starting three from the left - Donald Robert Davis, Margaret Jane Dansby, Jeanette Fooks, skip, Frances Ellen Purifoy, Bill Morrison, Jimmy Stinson, and C. R. Magness. Other children from earlier classes are seated behind us: Linda Dawson, and Susan Burnham to name a few. 

                      When we were mere babes, this Sunday School photo was taken. It was discovered in Frances Usrey Hamel's collection and shared with me by cousin J. Cooper Usrey. Little Tattee is pictured in the back of the large meeting room where we heard Bible stories that came to life on felt story boards with cut-out characters and landscapes.

                        There we learned hymns of the faith that my Little Tattee played on the upright piano. It was probably all she could do to keep from making them "honky-tonk!"

                        After the general gathering in Ramsey Hall, we divided into small groups based on age, sometimes also separated Boys and Girls. One of my teachers was Mrs. Howard East and I'm sure I disappointed her when I struggled to memorize the Ten Commandments.

Ramsey Hall is the education building to the left.

The House on Harrison Street launches this weekend at the Camden Daffodil Festival, March 11-12-13, 2016.