Wilson Daily Times, 14 April 1945.
Vick Elementary School students solemnly observed the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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- J.M. Miller Jr. — John M. Miller Jr.
- Rev. C.T. Jones — Charles T. Jones.
Wilson Daily Times, 14 April 1945.
Vick Elementary School students solemnly observed the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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When you come home to give a Black History Month talk at the elementary school your father attended, and the instruction coach shows you this photograph of her and your mother (in slingbacks) when the instructor was in kindergarten. She said my mama really took care of her. And she’s now been teaching 28 years. This is legacy, folks.
Thank you so much for sharing, M.J.D.
I spent the morning with the third, fourth, and fifth graders of Samuel H. Vick Elementary School, talking about the hometown hero for whom their school was named. My father was a Vick alum, which made the day even more special. The kids were curious and attentive and engaged, and their hands shot in the air when they recognized neighborhood landmarks like the Vick house and Mercy Hospital.
I’m grateful to Principal Annette Faison, Rev. H. Maurice Barnes and Gentleman’s Agreement, and Winstead United Methodist’s Hand in Hand partnership for the invitation, and to the students for being an awesome audience.
The current Vick Elementary building sits in the footprint of the old Charles H. Darden High School (my father’s alma mater) and briefly bore its name.
This young scholar gave a reporter an interview after. My heart nearly burst.
Wilson Daily Times, 22 December 1938.
Kudos to principal M.D. Williams, the teachers, and students of Vick Elementary!
Wilson Daily Times, 10 December 1942.
Wilson Daily Times, 26 February 1943.
My father, Rederick C. Henderson, who attended Vick Elementary School from 1940 to 1944, recalled the half-pint milk program: “… they’d give you a little thing of milk [that] cost a penny. You shake it up. Shake it up. It’d be in a bottle. And then that much butter would come to the top. That’s what we used to get.”
Interview with R.C. Henderson by Lisa Y. Henderson, 2001, all rights reserved. Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Boykin III.
Wilson Daily Times, 6 October 1942.
Wilson Daily Times, 2 December 1936.
For a brief period in November-December 1936, all three of Wilson’s Black schools were closed down. The Stantonsburg Street School (formerly known as Colored Graded and later as Sallie Barbour) shut down for repair of a burst boiler. The Colored High School (later known as Darden) was closed indefinitely due to a serious fire, and Sam Vick Elementary’s grand opening had been delayed by late furniture arrivals.
In 1940, principal Malcolm D. Williams submitted a summary of Vick Elementary School’s end-of-year activities, which included a dress-up “Old Fashion School Closing” at the Darden school auditorium and standardized testing.
Wilson Daily Times, 17 May 1940.