From Valleys to Mountains (ePub)

Susie E. Moultry Sansom-Piper was born in Milam County, in the City of Rockdale, Texas.  She graduated from Aycock High School in 1937 as Salutatorian of her class.
      
   She received an Associate Degree in Business Administration from St. Phillips Junior College of San Antonio, Texas; graduating with second honors. 
   She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Samuel Huston College (now Huston Tillotson University) of Austin, Texas, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.  A Master’s Degree in Administration and Elementary Education, with Honors, was conferred upon her from Prairie View University.  She also completed Counselor Certification from Prairie View University.  Additional Studies were completed in Mathematics and Chemistry under the National Science Foundation Program conducted by the U.S. Government.


   She taught in the Rockdale Public School system for Rockdale, Texas, for a total of 41 years.  For 23 years, she taught at Aycock, the school for Blacks, serving as the last school principal and also “bridging the gap” of integration. The following 17 years were spent in the Junior High School as an instructor of Texas History. 


   In addition to a teaching career, she is a free-lance writer to the Rockdale Reporter.  She has featured such writings as “Way Back When”, 28 years of “Ebony Etchings”, “Aycock Nostalgia”, and “On The Other Side of The Tracks.”  She has written “The Purple Tiger” -- The History of Aycock High School, and “Tied To Mama’s Apron Strings.”
 
   She has received many poetry awards, authored four inspirational pamphlets, and is currently editor of the “Reflections”, her church newsletter.  She also serves as musician for the Goldenaires, a choir

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