Oral history with Mrs. Ann Spivey Bishop Ruscoe

              Oral history with Mrs. Ann Spivey Bishop Ruscoe
F341.5 . M57 vol. 748, pt. 2
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Biography
Ann Spivey Bishop Ruscoe was born in 1923 in Cleveland, Mississippi. Frank Watkins Bishop and Ione Kent Bishop were her parents. Her one sibling was F. W. Bishop, Jr. She graduated from Cleveland High School in 1941. She was Salutatorian, OAR Good Citizenship Girl, and won the Senior Award. After attending Delta State Teachers College and the University of Tennessee, she received her B. S. degree from Peabody Teachers College in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1945. Her first teaching experience came in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She married Lieutenant Ray M. Ruscoe in San Marcos, Texas, and was with him in Japan when the Korean War started. They settled in Texas after the war for twenty- five years, returning to Mississippi in 1980.
Due to her mother's love of learning and traveling, she continues to travel with her dentist daughter, Annette, with whom she has made eleven overseas trips. She also has a son, Ray, Jr., and both children live in Texas.
Table of Contents
I. The Hill Demonstration School
II. Cleveland High School
III. Mayor Wattie Bishop
IV. Teaching preschool at Delta State Teachers College, 1947
V. Delta State during World War II
VI. Race relations
VII. Childhood in Cleveland
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