Nana Biography

There were only 87 students in five grades, a five-year high school course. It was a preparatory for Smith, and on the college boards, that school did better than any other school south of the Mason Dixon line. I’m not sure sure that’s a great credit, but it was better than anything else that was available at the time. But I was very very athletic there and participated in sports.

Can I ask you something?

Go ahead.

You were talking about, you never went to public school, what was the reason for that?

I guess that there was none available that I could get too very easily, and maybe my brother, who came along eight years later, did go to the public schools in town, but I had a feeling my mother thought it wasn’t the place for me. 

My mother was a little bit, in her sweet way, society minded. She thought people – she cared about who I went around with, and I had one friend when I went to this private school in Lexington as a day , there were borders there who lived in Lexington, and who was an orphan, and lived with their grandmother and grandfather, and was rather, as a little bit fast. I mean, she went out with boys, and she necked and things like that, and she was not, as my mother used to term it, to the manner born, and that used to get me so angry that I clunk to this girl more and more, and defended her all the time. I really liked her. Her name was Laura and I have never seen her, but at the time she was quite a friend to me. And my mother always wanted me to go around with friends of her friends you know, and she was always carping about it.

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