BETTYE CRAIG HILL
This article is condensed from an item published in the Paris
Post-Intelligencer
November 30, 2004
By SHANNON McFARLIN
P-I Staff Writer
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Retired Teacher BETTYE CRAIG HILL In a recent formal photograph |
Although retired after 38 years as a school teacher, Mrs. Hill is a substitute teacher for the early education program for Henry School. She also volunteers at Henry County Medical Center, is active in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Henry and has been indulging a long-time hobby of antiquing by operating a booth at a Paris Antique shop.
Mrs. Hill attended Caton School for black children in the Henry, Tennessee, area. After graduating from Caton School she was enrolled in Webb High School in McKenzie, where she lived on her own in a dormitory. Mrs. Hill received her bachelor's degree from Tennessee State University in Nashville. Afterward she attended New Mexico University and Milliken University in Decatur, Illinois. She received her master's degree from Californis State in Freemont.
Mrs. Hills first teaching job was for the Oak Grove School, which was a rural black school. After the Henry County Schools were intregrated, she began working as a fourth grade teacher at Rhea Elementary School in Paris. She remained a fourth grade teacher the rest of her career. She taught her doctor: Dr. Bo Griffey.
CATON SCHOOL ~ HENRY, TENNESSEE
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| CATON SCHOOL As a little girl, Bettye Craig Hill attended the Caton School in Henry. Mrs. Hill’s Teacher, Hilda Travis, stands by the door in this 1943 photograph of the school. |
HCTC FACULTY
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HENRY COUNTY TRAINING CENTER FACULTY Bettye Craig Hill was among faculty members at the former Henry County Training Center. In this photograph, which was taken in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s, are: (from left, front row) Bettye Hill, Elizabeth Harden, Lucy Olive, Darling Hudson, Pearlie Daniel Travis; (middle row) Mary Gardner, Versa Buckley; and (back row) Roland Atkinson, principal J.H. Harden and Evelyn Travis. |
