Simpson, Helen_Candy Hill of Bryan'you
buy
sEore
it up
a pool:
~til I grew
P:V. had saved a little money sh~
bought a cow and we sure did enjoy the
milk~ She even sold little cartons of milk
to some of her friends. The best part
:?'ibut it was making ice Cream inthe
S~mmertime. That cove made our lines a
lot betteri'~
In those early
a, number of fun things ~c
R~d in
At 12, Simpson had trouble seeing the
letters in books, and straggled with reading.
"When I would try to read the letters
in
can't
I
get
"She'd start our in the morning with a
little bag of samples and sell to people all
over town, She would make as much as a
thousand dollars a month. This was a tot
of money for those times,"
Simpson was stets and
~sed with
and I sis-
she
Stare and a
they forced integration"
In 1970, Simpson became the first
black teacher's aide in the Bryan ISD. "][
went ro A&M and took some courses t
early elementary training, and helpe,~
Margaret Godfrey who was teaching ar
Neal elementary school. After five years
working as a teacher's aide, I went back to
; house.
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the