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Mrs. Boyd: After I graduated from college, I started working with the
Junior's Mothers Club with a play school. We were the first play school
in the state of North Carolina and in the eastern part of the United
States. Three hours a day, I would walk, pick up the children on the way
to the recreational center, and we would play and do activities. That was
the summer of '47, and I graduated in June, and in the last of July I got
a job teaching home economics, but I gave it up. The children's parents
were paying about fifty cents a week, and I had about ten children, and
one of the little boys had a big wheel wagon and his mother would get
somebody to pull him down the street in the wagon, and they'd stop along
the way and pick some of the others. Then when I left that job, the lady
that took over drove around and picked up the children and that play
school lasted up until this lady retired, and that was in the '70s.
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