Black Gold, Volume 3, Number 2, 1977 Page: 22
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Timpson Teacher Tel/s
Mrs. Lillie Parker
" To get where you're going you've got to
remember where you've been. Do you see where
I'm coming from?" Good Times.
The idea and aspirations of many students
were shaped by first days in school. Few of us
will forget our days at Timpson Colored High
School. I left T.C.H.S. when it closed as a re-
sult of integration in 1960. To really appre-
ciate what we had at Timpson Colored High and
realizes humble though it was, how much more it
was than the systems that preceeded it, I went
to the home of Mrs. Lillie J. Parker, one of the
oldest living faculty members of Timpson Colored
High. Her own mother and father were some of
the first faculty members. She went to school
there in the early 1900's and began her teaching
career in 1918. She and I compared school days.
Peggy: Mrs. Parker, tell me about the people
who shaped Timpson Colored School.
" Some of the oldest citizens remember a
Mr. Nathan King, who was the first teacher of
Timpson. It was then, about 1880, a one-teacher
school. Mr. Lena Hopper was one of his stu-
dents. The school building was a log house and
stood where the Katy Bussy place is. He taught
several years."22
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