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where I studied piano and the clarinet, attended ensemble sessions and participated in the schools orchestra It was a sirls on one side of a dorram, but very concentrated Mommy and Daddy usually visited on the weekends At the end of the session, we perforram for our parents, friends and relatives, and ood

reputation

The school provided for social activities as

well, had a pool, ran movies twice a week and socials

once a week at which students attending the school

took turns providing theThere

was a very comfortable, modern dormitory facility

with two students assigned to each room For the last

two years, I had the sairl a year

older than I was Her name was Judy Foster and she

was from Richmond Kentucky She was a very

serious music student, somewhat on the prudish side I

always felt that things cooled considerably between us

the moment she fixed her eyes on my mother and

realized I was part African-American Fortunately,