Oral history with Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry and Mr. Harold Terry

              Oral history with Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry and Mr. Harold Terry
F341.5 . M57 vol. 748, pt. 2
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Biography
One of six siblings, Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry was born July 30, 1923, in Greenville, Mississippi. She was a child during the Depression and during the flood of 1927. Her parents were Philip Morgan Ryals and Sarah Woods Ryals. Mrs. Terry grew up near Hollandale, Mississippi. She attended and was graduated from Delta State Teachers College where she met her husband Harold E. Terry; they were married in 1947. Mrs. Terry was the recipient of the first B. S. degree that Delta State awarded.
After graduation, Mrs. Terry taught mathematics at Shaw, Mississippi, Boyce, Mississippi, Minter City, Mississippi, and Sunnyside, Mississippi. Additionally she served as math supervisor for Leflore County Schools until her retirement in 1985. She is a charter member of the Mississippi Council of Mathematics and served as the president in 1977. She is a member of St. John's United Methodist Church in Greenwood, Mississippi. She and Mr. Terry are the parents of two sons, Henry Morgan Terry, and Sam Diggs Terry; they also have three granddaughters.
Table of Contents
I. Family background
II. The flood of 1927
III. The Depression
IV. Delta State, 1940- 1944
V. Hollandale Consolidated School
VI. Living in Ward Hall
VII. Physical education pageants
VIII. Camp Stewart, Georgia
IX. Changes in the Mississippi Delta
X. World War II
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