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Lincoln High School Reunion - 6 July 1996
Moderator: Mollie Guin
Interviewee: Albennie Carter
MG: OK. And your name is?
AC: Albennie Carter
MG: OK
AC: Nicks Carter.
MG: OK. First of all, are you native to College Station?
AC: No. I lived here from '41 to '46.
MG: And you attended school here?
AC: At Lincoln School.
MG: At Lincoln School. So if you're not a native, then you moved here from.. .
AC: Burleson County.
MG: Burleson County. OK. All Right. What is your favorite memory of
College Station?
AC: I don't have a favorite memory.
MG: Anything in your childhood or in school that you remember that's a
favorite memory?
AC: No.
MG: Ok, all right. How did you travel to and from school?
AC: On the bus and sometimes I walked. I lived on the other side of College
Hills and we rode the bus. Sometimes we missed, we walked.
MG: That's what happened when I missed, I'd walk an hour and a half to
school. If I missed the bus, I'd walk. All right, who was your favorite teacher?
AC: Who was my favorite teacher. Miss... her name is Adams Owens, and
Mr. Hawkings.
MG: All right, what subject did they teach?
AC: Miss Adams taught homemaking, and I think he taught music.
MG: All right, describe, because we're trying to get a feel of this era or time,
describe the type of clothing and how it's alike or different from what you'd find
now.
AC: Clothing was nothing like today. Just plain clothes. Cheap. Now they're
high priced.
MG: OK, all right. Girls had to wear dresses? They were not allowed to wear
shorts or anything like that?
AC: No, no.
MG: OK, where did you do your shopping?
AC: I really don't know. I guess we had to go to Bryan to shop. I guess J.C.
Penney.
MG: Now, are there any neighborhood stores that you know of that are still in
business around here?
AC: I can't remember no stores around here.
MG: All right, what part did church play in education and in the community?
AC: Church every Sunday.
MG: Was there a cafeteria here?
AC: I don't think there was no cafeteria here when we were here. There's a lot
of years between me and you.
MG: How did the war affect your education?
AC: It didn't affect my education. Just the fact that my brother had to go to
war.
MG: The second World War?
AC: Yes.
MG: All right, what was your favorite subject?
AC: I think it was spelling.
MG: Is there anything else that you could add that you could tell me about
what College Station and the neighborhood, anything, was like during this time
that your were here?
AC: A lot of difference between now than it was then, because the Negroes
were and the whites were
MG: OK, and thank you very much.