Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutSimpson, 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. · with the