Oral history with Mrs. Mattie Lou Hardy

              Oral history with Mrs. Mattie Lou Hardy
F341.5 . M57 vol. 733
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Biography
Mrs. Mattie Lou Hardy was born on May 13, 1908, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was one of the six boys and six girls born to Queen Victoria Powell Waters and Hiram Waters. Her parents moved to Hattiesburg from Merrill Station, near Meridian, Mississippi.
Mrs. Hardy first attended school at Mount Zion Baptist Church, then transferred to the Eureka School in the first grade. She was a member of Eureka's second graduating class in 1928. She attended Jackson College and Alcorn College, where she studied education.
The first teaching position held by Mrs. Hardy was at a small school in Brookhaven, where she was principal. She next taught in Lucedale. For over forty years, she taught in Hattiesburg public schools, most of that time at Eureka. She retired after several years at Grace Love School.
Mrs. Hardy has been involved in many community activities. She was secretary to the state Federation of Women's Clubs and vice president of the Sixth District Federation of Women's Clubs. She was secretary to the One Night of Fellowship for her church, the Church of God in Christ, where she was also the superintendent of Sunday school. And she has been an active member of the White Rose Homemakers, where she has been secretary and from which she has received a number of awards.
Table of Contents
I. Family
II. Description of the Eureka School building
III. Teachers and classmates at Eureka
IV. First graduating class ( 1927)
V. School activities, May Day activities, Eureka football players
VI. Favorite teachers, attending Jackson College
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