Tuesday, February 9, 2010
People Beatrice Garrison and the Pentecost-Garrison School
Posted by Vance Lauderdale on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:51 PM
- Althea Pentecost & Beatrice Garrison
At the time, I had not located a photograph of one of the school's founders, Beatrice Garrison, so we only included an image of Althea Pentecost.
But as luck would have it, I did finally turn up an old, undated photo of both women in the Special Collections Department of the University of Memphis Libraries, so here you go. Though the entire right side of the photo, which originally ran in the Memphis Press-Scimitar, has been trimmed away for some reason, you can see that the ladies are standing in front of a lifeboat, so we can assume the snapshot was taken while they were on an ocean voyage.
That's Beatrice on the right, by the way.
PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LIBRARIES
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I have the other half of the photo, showing Mr. Garrison, complete with hand puppet. He was an educator, too.
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This picture was probably taken in 1941. At the time I was in the 5th grade and Ms. Garrison was my teacher. She told us about her trip to Central America on a United Fruit ship. Getting on or off the ship a tarantula spider landed on her shoulder. A companion brushed it away. At 10 you would remember a story like that.
Peter Ballenger
Memphis
