Remembering Rogers: Grace Hill remembered as leader of Rogers schools
Last month the Remembering Rogers column featured Grace Hill, an educator who began teaching in 1946 and continued until she retired from the Rogers school system in 1981. Hill spoke to the Rogers History Club on May 19, 2011, and was introduced by one of her former students, John Wayne Ford. She told about her childhood in Kansas, how she became a teacher in Springdale, and fell in love with a man from Rogers. Hill recalled how Birch Kirksey hired her in 1946 as a sixth-grade teacher at Central Ward Elementary, and then teaching at the new Southside Elementary in 1951. Here is the rest of her...
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