Alford, Beverly 2022-12-09
In this third interview, Beverly Alford outlines her college education at Wayland Baptist, including her brief stint on the freshman women’s basketball team at the college. She discusses classes she took, influential professors, entertainment options, and campus life. Upon graduating, she was hired to work at Booker T. Washington High School (discussed in her first interview). After integration one year later, she moved to Lubbock to teach at Posey, Hardwick, and Hodges Elementary Schools, where she taught primarily fifth grade as well as physical education. She discusses issues at the different schools, how teaching changed in the 1960s through 1980s. She then speaks on her missionary work in Africa.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Beverly Alford
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: December 9, 2022
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Interviewer: Elissa Stroman
Length: 02:01:42
Abstract
Introduction; why she became a teacher; The Wayland campus and living in the dorms; basketball game versus Russia; Entertainment in Plainview; Professors that were influential to her life and studies; Elementary education and student teaching; teacher certification; Life after graduation; Transitioning from Plainview to Lubbock; teaching at an elementary school; Teaching music to her students; her classroom’s atmosphere; Trading classes; Creating a school chess tournament at Hodges Elementary; Moving to Sanders Elementary; Bible studies and mission work; Connecting with people while doing mission work; South Africa
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to a CD copy in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/373728 >
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