MVLS I Spy Oral History Interview

Green Corners School, Glenville, NY
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Transcript of audio excerpts

Interviewers: Katie Smith & Maggie Smith
Speaker: Howard Luther Tatlock

Today is April 11, 2001, and this is Maggie and Katie with Mr. (Howard) Luther Tatlock and we're going to talk about the Green Corners School. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how you first came to this community, Mr. Tatlock?

Tatlock: Well, I was born in Ballston Center, if you know where that is. And then the same year, my father moved to the West Glenville area. And then in 1920 he purchased the Tatlock farm, and that's where I grew up.

About the school:
Of course, we sort of had to start school then at seven years old. And I think it was 1926 when I started, and I graduated from that in 1934. Well, today, when you go to a school, you have a teacher for different, each subject, right? Then, one teacher taught all the grades, and how she ever did it, I don't know. You might say she was a unique person.

Subjects taught:
K. Smith: What subjects did you study?
Tatlock: The subjects in them days, the first one we had in the morning was
physiology - you know what that is?

M. & K. Smith: No - No
Tatlock: I don't either! Well, anyway, it's mental.not mental, physical health. Cleanliness and exercise and like that. We had, American History, geography, spelling, English, math - mathematics, they called it arithmetic back then.

 

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