Growing up in Jena, Before the Jena Six (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781728330327)

Born and raised in Jena, Louisiana, attended Good Pine High School 1st through 12th grade and graduated in 1965. I attended Southern University 1965 thru 1969 majoring in Industrial Arts Education with minor in Driver Education. . I worked four years as a lab tech in the Biology Department at S.U. and also worked as a barber at The School For Deaf of S.U. where I enjoyed learning American Sign Language. During my senior year at S.U. I did my student teaching at Scotlandville High School . Graduated and got married in Houston, Texas August 9, 1969 to my college sweet heart/soul mate Martha Ann Leger. I was hired by Denver Public Schools and move to Denver, Colorado and started my career as a teacher in September of 1969.I took a sabbatical from teaching in 1977 to finish up my Masters of Arts in Industrial Sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins Co. I taught a few years then I finished another Masters in Education Administration from C.S.U. After thirty great years of teaching I retired from education 1999. After retiring I worked 4 and ahalf years as a case manager for Arapahoe House in Denver. I work with a super staff of people on The HIT Team. We worked with adult clients with mental and alcohol and drug abuse issues. I earned my Chemical Addictions Counselor III Degree (CAC III) with this job. I have been volunteering for the last twenty years teaching English as a second language to the Spanish speaking adults at our Church Of The Ascension in Denver's Montbello neighborhood. As I teach these adults students how to read, write and speak English, they are teaching me and I am learning how to communicate in Spanish, ... gracias, clases de Ingeles. It has been fun learning a third language. Well ya'll, I'm gonna stop here and end this volumn. This endeavor has been a long time coming and has taken me the best part of fifteen or so years to complete. This being my first attempt at being an author and I want to sincerely thank all readers. I have to send a special thanks to all who provided me quotes for the memories chapter . Thanks to all who supplied me valuable answers to questions that helped me complete my manuscript. Again, thank you all for the Memories.