A newspaper feature on former Holly Grove teacher and coach Carolyn Moffatt is now posted on this Message Board under Holly Grove News and Info <http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=58179&p=3&topicID=40927159> She is to be inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
-- Edited by Jane Dearing Dennis on Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 11:39:26 PM
Mr. Littlejohn was our 8th grade English teacher. Ms. Summers was our 6th or 7th grade English teacher. I remember Ms. Seals in the 5th grade and those 3 inch heels she wore. If she caught us with our feet out from under our desks and in the ailses (SP), she would grind her heel into our feet. I only had that happen once! She also had the coolest Monte Carlo with the drivers seat that swiveled out so that you could get in easier.
I remember Mr. Littlejohn. I think after he stopped teaching he worked for O.W. McCastlin at the liquor store. Does anyone remember Mrs. Collins? She taught 3rd grade.
I remember MRS Mayo when she was Miss Middleton. (I think). She was my first grade teacher and remained teaching at Holly Grove way beyond my graduation date of 1983. I liked her a lot. I remember Ms Summers too. She was my second grade teacher and I think the first teacher to give me a paddling. I recall having a lot more paddling throughout my time at Holly Grove Elementary, middle, and high School. I liked her too. I often wonder what happened to her. She attended the same church that I did; the missionary Baptist church, so even though she paddled me, I still had to like her. In the third grade, I had MS Seals and MS Cox. In the 4th and 5th, again it was MS Seals, Ms Cox, Ms Mayhan. I am sure there were others who I should remember. All of my teachers were pretty good. The one teacher who I recall with a lot of memory was Mr. Littlejohn. His name was Norman G. Littlejohn. Mr. Littlejohn really should not have been teaching at a middle school, but instead at a college. I remember pestering him a lot and being smacked down by him on several occasions. I remember laughing a lot in his class, and remember the other students laughing a lot too. I think that we were not laughing at his jokes but at him. He was very smart. He was an English teacher and I remember him getting very frustrated trying to teach us English. What ever happened to him?
My mother, Dorothy Hostetter Palmer moved to Holly Grove in 1941 to teach at the elementary school. She rented a room from Miss Ida Lee Patterson who taught 3rd grade - forever! Mother met and married my dad, Robert E. (Jack) Palmer, who lived on a farm about 17 miles from Holly Grove on Highway 49 near Blackton. They were introduced by Laurine Palmer who was my Dad's sister in law and who taught 4th grade at Holly Grove also forever! Mother and Daddy married in August of 1943 and my sister Ann came along in 1946 and I showed up two years later in 1948. We both attended Holly Grove Schools our entire lives and both married Holly Grove boys. Ann married Thomas Coleman in May of 1968 and I married Richard (Dick) Williamson in August of 1968.
My favorite teacher was Mrs. Mayo in 1st grade. I really enjoyed my 4 years at HG. I had Mrs. Mayo 1st grade, Ms Coleman 2nd grade, Mrs. Jackson 3rd grade and Ms Cox later known as Mrs. Smith 4th grade Ms Cox got married midway through the 4th grade. I attended HG 1972-1976 .
April 29, 1926 Holly Grove Gleanings -Mr. Lanier of Forrest City was in our city Wednesday shaking hands and meeting old acquaintances. Mr. Lanier taught school here about 28 years ago. He had changed quite a good deal and of course said there had been a lot of changes her since he taught in our school.
Monroe County Sun Holly Grove News March 7, 1935 "Mrs. N.J. Newby who has been ill since the Christmas holidays was back at her teaching duties in the Holly Grove grammar school Monday morning."
Monroe County Sun
Holly Grove News April 4, 1935 "Mesdames W.J. Newby and Ed Patterson, and Misses Julia Walls, Gertie Mayo, and Olivia Trotter attending Teachers’ meeting in Brinkley Friday." "Prof. Robert Coles and Coach Thompson attended Teachers’ meeting in Brinkley Friday."
-- Edited by Danyelle McNeill Fletcher at 12:43, 2005-11-15
