Mrs. Hutto's class; West Ward Elementary; Gulfport, MS; 1972
My favorite elementary school teacher was Mrs. Elsie Hutto. I snapped this picture of my rowdy sixth grade class with my parent’s “Instamatic” camera (anybody remember those? Magicubes?). I’m fairly certain that Mrs. Hutto had left the room because, even though she was a nice lady, she would never have allowed us to cut up like this.
An interesting detail I discovered when I scanned this into my computer and enlarged it–the empty front desk has my school supply box on top, an El Producto cigar box. Jones Bros. Drug Store in downtown Gulfport used to let kids have the discarded boxes for this purpose. The dandy little plastic pencil boxes used nowadays weren’t around, best I can recall.
The photo’s a bit fuzzy, but I can make out most of these characters: Bardo Fox, Clay Giuffria, James Brown, Jerry Matheny, Daisy Harper, Chad Lizana, Chris McLean, Teddy Gaston, Pete Pope, Mark Hansen, Mary McKenna, Bobbie Phelps, and Derek Boyd.
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