It is almost impossible to keep my chapters from overlapping so please bear with me if I jump around a bit. Since my birthday was in October, I was put in a class starting at mid-term of the 1906-1907 school year. The classes were divided into the A and B classes, depending upon when you entered, at the beginning or at mid-term. As a result, all through my school years I was promoted to the next grade at mid-term.

My first year of school I attended North Side (Sequoyah) and then finished in Bristow. When we moved back to Tulsa, I entered my second year at the old yellow brick school at Fourth and Boston. All grades were taught at this school. When we moved from Lansing Street to Standpipe Hill, I again went to Sequoyah from the third grade through the eighth grade. There were no junior high schools so grades nine through twelve were taught in high school.

When I was in the second grade, there was a family that lived near the school and they had a grown son who was slightly retarded. He was always neat, well dressed and well behaved, but learning was very hard for him. He could not tell time, but he wanted a watch so his folks got him one and he was very proud of it. A lot of people would ask him the time and he would pull out his pocket watch and say, "You wouldn't think it was that time, would you?" 

Many of the children knew him and he would sometimes talk with us. Then, when I was in the sixth grade, Sequoyah was so crowded that our class had to meet in a large empty room in a brick building that was intended to be a store. We didn't mind though. In fact, we rather enjoyed it as it seemed to make us more of a family. The building was about one block west on Easton and about two blocks south on Main from Sequoyah school.

The grade schools had competitions or contests and they were generally held at the fairgrounds. These sports included Maypole winding, dumbbell exercises, races and a full day in general. Of course we had only one high school so their contests were with high schools in other towns. In the seventh and eighth grades, the girls took domestic science and the boys took manual training. This was mostly cooking for the girls and wood working for the boys. 

Once a week we had to go to Riverside School for these classes. By this time Tulsa had street cars running north and south on Main and east and west across Main to various destinations such as Henry Kendall College (now The University of Tulsa), West Tulsa, and Sand Springs (via the Interurban streetcar). We rode the street cars to as close as we could get to the schools. This left several blocks to walk at each end. These trips were unsupervised, but I don't recall any disturbances or commotions as we have now on our public school buses.

Our playground rules were also different from what they are today. The Northside school was a two story building with a basement. The girls' restroom was located on the north end of the basement. In between were storage rooms and the boiler room. During recess and play periods, the girls had to play on the north side of the building and the boys had to play on the south side. 

Some of the games we played were volleyball, captain ball and basketball. Captain ball was played in rings. One girl stood in the center ring while others standing in rings around the center one passed the ball trying to prevent the center girl from getting it. If she managed to get it from one of the girls, then that girl had to replace her in the center ring.

The boys had their own games as well, but the rules for their games were not the same as the rules for the girls' games. For example, the girls' basketball court was divided into three sections - the center section and two end sections. In the center section, each team had a guard and a jumper. The ball was put into play by tossing the ball up and the jumpers would try to knock the ball to their side. 

If you crossed a line, it was a foul. The centers, or jumpers, each had a guard from the opposite side guarding her. In the end sections, each team had a pair of guards at their opponents end of the court. The guards would attempt to get the ball away from the attacking team and throw it to their own side. It was a foul for any player to step over the line separating their section from the adjoining section. Since the boys and girls didn't play together, I was very surprised to see the boys running from one end of the court to the other when I witnessed my first boys' basketball game.

Back-tracking a little, in order to fill in some of the other things I remember about these times, I recall that I lost my hair and was very thin after I recovered from