Ann Harris Toler Oral History Interview


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Interviewer 0:02
This is interview number two with Miss Anne Toller. Would for the record state your name, your birth name, and you're married.

Ann Toler 0:14
My birth name is Annie Jane Harris. Nickname Anne. I was born September 14 1936 in Washington County, in the community of Plymouth, North Carolina. And your parents? My father was Harol Lee Harris, and my mother, Edith Jackson Harris.

Interviewer 0:39
And what did your father do?

Ann Toler 0:41
My father was the superintendent of the prison camp in the eastern part of North Carolina superintendent supervisor, but he was in charge of the prison camps in the eastern part of North Carolina. And your mother, mother was a homemaker to probably maybe 1956 57. She decided she wanted to see what it was like in the outside world outside of our home. And she was an excellent seamstress. So she got a job seamster with the belt, which later ended into a clerking job after my father passed away. She decided to continue with that to take up during loansome time.

Interviewer 1:37
And you attended elementary school,

Ann Toler 1:39
I attended elementary and high school in Creswell high school, in Creswell North Carolina.

Interviewer 1:49
And the years you were there?

Ann Toler 1:52
From first grade until I graduated in May of 1954

Interviewer 2:00
Are there any aspects of your early education that led you towards being a teacher? You'd be a teacher's, or

Ann Toler 2:15
I don't know that leading me to become a teacher. But I know they were early aspects in my early education on through high school that enhance my interest and especially lifestyle. Enjoy the hands on lab experiments that we'd do in class. And I was just fascinated as to why, why would it do this. I wanted it to be proven why this would do that. As far as I never gave it a thought to be a teacher. My desire was to really be a nurse when I graduated from high school, in entered the East Carolina School of Nursing program in September of 1954, and there were five of us. And my intention was to go to East Carolina for two years, then transfer to the University of Virginia Medical School to obtain my nursing training. And that was my desire. It turned out that it did not work that way when I was interviewed for the program in Richmond because I'm hard of hearing and I wear a hearing aid. And I didn't think that would make any difference with my career. But anyhow, I wore a hearing aid and they didn't feel like that they should accept me so already having all these science courses behind me. I just went back to East Carolina and I just changed my major to Science with a minor in English and then I took the other courses that are needed towards my BS degree. So really, science was my great love, I love but as for teaching, I had no idea I would go into teaching until practice time in September of 1957 to the end of fall quarter in November of '57 and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I practiced in Bear Grass High School, in Bear Grass North Carolina very small rural community school. I practiced biology. Ninth grade science and chemistry and into every minute. That gave me the idea that I might enjoy teaching that I enjoy lab work. As I said, I enjoy the hands on experiment that I did in elementary and in high school. And in college that I thought I might would enjoy working in a laboratory situation. So that's what I did. When I graduated from East Carolina really would have finished in November '57, I went to Hyde county to Swan Quarter, North Carolina, they had an opening for seventh and eighth grade combination teaching, teaching all the subjects not just science, but all the subjects of seventh and eighth grade, I accepted it but thought it would be a challenge. It really would break me in good. And I enjoyed it. But it was a lot of work. Preparing for the classes for seventh grade, and preparing for the eighth grade, and time to keep the seventh grade busy with something while working and teaching with the eighth grade and vice versa. I managed through the year but made up my mind. I never intended to put myself in that situation again. In the summer of 1958, I applied to for a lab technician with the FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Lab. And the opening they had for me was in the hairs and fibers section. And this is the area that deals strictly with hairs and fibers from the crime scene victims assessment. If you're familiar with the FBI, they have many different areas. They have the fingerprint, they have the paint, they have the ballistics and they just go on into different divisions. And this was a particular area that I worked at attorney engine. My job was different from day to day and never knew what was facing me without doing the next morning at 8:30.

Interviewer 6:59
Where was this at? Where were you stationed?

Ann Toler 7:01
Washington DC. In Washington DC

Interviewer 7:13
so you really enjoyed it?

Ann Toler 7:15
I enjoy and I so I knew that I would enjoy working in a career in a lab, especially forensic science. But I met my husband Fred, fell in love, got married in September of 1959. And he was in the army and was from Washington, North Carolina and shipped overseas to Okinawa. Where did we meet we met in Washington DC. Right he was stationed in in the army base in Warrenton, Virginia, which is about 60 miles or so. He knew my roommates, they were from Washington. And he knew them and that's how I met. We met through my roommates. When he went to Okinawa, I came to Washington, North Carolina in the meantime, my parents my dad's office was in Greenville. It was easier for him to have his job in Greenville. So my mom and dad will be in Washington. So I moved back stayed with them and then my dad passed away. In March of 1960. Fred came home with the help of Congressman Senator Lindsey Warren, who happens to be both of them from Washington, North Carolina. And they were very good friends of his family. And due to the fact that I was pregnant with our first child, and it was such a shock for losing daddy, he died suddenly, that he felt like he needed to be home. And so with the help of Congressman and Sennator Warren they obtained a hardship discharge from the service is terminated so that he could stay home and in August of 1960, our first child daughter Teresa was born but that ended my career with the FBI moved

Interviewer 9:39
So you went back to teaching after that?

Ann Toler 9:43
after Teresa was born, in September 1961 a position was opened in Pantego High School in Pantego, North Carolina. I applied and got the job taught there until May of 1962 became pregnant again with our second child, son, Derek. And in September of 1963, to May of 1966, I went back to Pantego and taught high school science again, became pregnant with my third child Freddy. This is during the time that we had some changes take place within the school system integration. I had no problem with the integration. I can teach anybody that wants to be taught. It doesn't matter if they're black, pink, yellow, or purple, the color of their skin has nothing to do. It's that desire to learn. And when they have that desire, I can teach them. However, I did not have all my black students with the desire to learn. Some of them I had to really stay on them. Biggest problem we had back in in the early integration was attendance. They would come to school for a week or two, and then stay out two weeks, back to school for two weeks and stay out the question we'd always ask them, well have you been sick? Well would we check on them? We would check them to see if they were out sick. So we could send them homework but they would not respond to, you know, a telephone or or the principal would go down to the house they not here would be the answers you will come to find out they would be going up north to visit some their parents, were up North. Mama was up north and daddy lived in New Jersey, New York and they go up and then they come back and they come back they would come back to school that problem I had with immigration goes to many absences, an awful lot of paperwork. But no, it did not bother me. I noticed that was one of your questions that you had for the day. And no, it did not. I believe I can teach in anybody that has a desire to have a standard for anatomy. We're all God's children.

Interviewer 12:16
Sort of in lines with that. Did you have teachers that were moved in to your, well black teachers ever moved into the school?

Ann Toler 12:26
See at the time I was there with all the teachers were white. I left in May of 1966. I had my third child at the time that I was there, it was still the same teachers year after year, we did not have any black teachers to come in or we had the white teacher to transfer over to the black school.

Interviewer 12:54
So when you come back from your last child?

Ann Toler 12:57
I went to the private school. And my reason for that was the small classroom, teacher student attention, teacher had time to work individually. There was more freedom in the teaching system in situation. You know, in other words, I'm a firm believer that God is the creator of all things. And I do teach all these theories that are associated with things such as Big Bang, I did teach the Darwin's theory and i would teach all those to expose the children to it. But I also had my Bible, I had scriptures and I had the freedom to do otherwise I did not in the proper system. I was able to teach science as I liked to teach it.

Interviewer 13:57
This is at what Private school?

Ann Toler 13:59
This is the private school, pongo Christian Academy, Belhaven, North Carolina. I taught there September 1968, until May of 1989. And it was very, most enjoyable. I enjoyed the teaching experience that I had with Bear Grass and that I had the Pantego High School. This one was true, most enjoyable and blessed. I was blessed in my teaching career.

Interviewer 14:34
My question sort of like is, do you have people that influenced you in your teachings?

Ann Toler 14:42
Yes I did. My high school science teacher was probably the greatest influence that I had she was missed Matilda. She taught high school science. I don't know how many years. She was there a long time she retired from it, But she she was, she was my idol. As far as teaching I, she she was my mentor. I use several of her teaching methods throughout my career, she believed in the hands-on method. And that's what happened, which is why I like the laboratory experience. And I was fortunate enough that the parents and headmaster at Christian Academy, believe the way I'm doing that I had ready money to be able to buy the materials that are needed for these lab experiments and field trips, and projects.

Interviewer 15:47
Do you feel that you would have or were unable to get that in the public school system?

Ann Toler 15:54
Well, now, you know, when I was teaching it Pantego. We were limited. We had a budget that was limited to X amount of dollars per school year. And science equipment is expensive. So yes, I was I was more limited. Back then. Now I don't know that I can answer for now. I don't, I don't know. But I was limited when I was teaching at Pantego High School. As to the last microscopes, for example, at Pongo Christian Academy, every child in my biology class, and I'm talking about it most perfectly fit each child had a microscope individually when I left Pongo Christian Academy, there was 30 microscopes but each child had a microscope when I was teaching at Pantego High School, five children would to have to share from their microscopes. So you're talking about the five microscopes with other things that are needed worse, this is for seventh eighth, ninth bioology, chemistry and all physics because they flipped up those and they needed things to to be able to teach and use and experiment. So we are here to spread myself thin the money to be able to get what I needed. But I had the freedom and get more money at the private school, it was very expensive. We didn't do it all at once in one year. What are you doing? You know, we could only do so much. We concentrate on certain areas that could be interchangeable with step upgrades or something that could be changeable with physical science and also be used for that. But I would say thatby the end of five years, we had a well equipped science lab.

Interviewer 18:08
who was the headmaster?

Ann Toler 18:13
We had several. The first one, the first headmaster, we had was Mr. Llyod Johnson. The second one I can not remember his name his first name was Ernest.

Interviewer 18:36
No that's okay.

Ann Toler 18:39
I can't sorry maybe his name will come back. Then the third headmaster we had with Mr. Ed Willis. The fourth headmaster was Mr. Arther Bencly, the fifth headmaster in Gerald Garner then Jim, he was there when I retired.

Interviewer 19:07
They all were sort of easy to work with or?

Ann Toler 19:13
No problems, no problem. They, they, they, left it up to me, they told me I knew what I was teaching, I knew how to teach it, you do your job, he wont bother you are the manager you know, that was the kind of relationship so anything that we come up with always go to I would like to do such a such it's such a such at time, like a field trip or a project that we would be doing outside a classroom. I would always go to him The week before and get make sure it was right. Yes, ma'am.

Interviewer 19:52
If you did feel like that was that your freedom was so much more available.

Ann Toler 20:08
Available then then then then while I was teaching or parenting or even the practice teaching

Interviewer 20:17
Did you more or less develop your own curriculum?

Ann Toler 20:22
No, I met all the state requirements we used to do a lot of the state adopted book the ones that were mostly used in the public school systems we use that model No, I don't think at the end they have inserted quite a bit of some of my ideas into a felt like this should follow this rather than what they would have done. Now we we I have abided the the State Board of Education regulation while for Smith like I say we use a lot about books that we use for state adopted however they didn't change the chemistry book, I liked another one that was not stayed in that version better

Interviewer 21:32
Your students? I know you taught both in public and private school. You say you've enjoyed both as far as that. Are there students that you remember because not so much their aptitude but their personality.

Ann Toler 21:55
Oh yes. A lot of the students that made an impression with me. I taught students that loved science as much as I do. I taught students that hated it in the past. But we've worked with it and I am proud to say that about my students that I taught from Congo Christian Academy that a good percentage of them put into a scientific related deal. We have doctors, we have nurses, we have medical technologist we have dentists, dentists, that a lot of them do go into we have a chemist into science related fields to maybe idea to influence them a little bit we also have some ministers too

Interviewer 23:21
What would you consider your most outstanding achievement as a teacher

Ann Toler 23:31
I cannot put it on any one individual but I can take a collection in a collection of all my students that had me from the time they were in seventh grade until they graduated and to see them do as well as they are with their lives. And an idea of having small part in developing and especially those of you that went into the science but maybe after I have achieved

Interviewer 24:31
will go back to talking about your family said you quit work. We raised your family and back and forth between to quit your job at the FBI is is very personal question you feel like have you ever had any regrets? This is up to you to how you answer this Have you ever second guessed yourself or do you think you made all the right choices?

Ann Toler 25:12
No I don't have any regrets. I'm doing the only thing that bothers me when I would be teaching would be my lack of time to spend with my family because I had so much to do with my classes. maybe did not give them as much individual attention should know if I had not been teaching my children would pretty much on their own for doing thier homework. They'd sit around the table and they will sit around the table if they had any questions on stuff they would pretty much say mama was working over her homework also, no as far as I appreciate the privilege of being able to teach easily in between the years and then the length of time has been '66, '68-'89, I'm bad on remembering dates now.

Interviewer 26:56
your children what are they going on to?

Ann Toler 26:57
Okay, my daughter was a medical technologist Currituk county hospital. My older son is a chemist with, these people well it's changed now what is it, [Inaudible] he is with the biohazard department. Our youngest son [Inaudible] hes more interested in the Automotive.

Interviewer 27:37
Ok, the community that you taught in what was it like the parents the community as a whole rural urban?

Ann Toler 27:52
They were rural, close knit friendly God-fearing people, hardworking. High family values they they're cooperative and supportive of my teacher they are supportive

Interviewer 28:12
Do you see that today compared to when you were teaching that's uh you know people who have kids in school who you think is

Ann Toler 28:26
just give you an example she teaches she she takes my situation is this flight man her parents got people who are good but she got the cooperation that nothing to look at numbers Informix catch line numbers you may have a class when new most of the time the class is called eight this moment so you get you can get more work 32 Or even

Interviewer 29:26
work the hands on some of the federal

Ann Toler 29:32
but now see it like I said I'm at now. And that contact I had with with the school system is with other teachers that are still teaching or have children or friends that still have children in school. So I really can't think of too much comparison. You know, I'm not in their shoes.

Interviewer 29:58
I can put it to you this way. Did you see that kind of support in the public school and compared to private school

Ann Toler 30:11
I had more support. To start with right now with the private school, these people are sacrificing to pay the tuition and to pay for the materials which could be used for whatever that child year is. So, you know, they feel like you know, we're gonna do this, we get our money's worth that and we really put in some money in then we'll even get our money's worth that everybody needs to know their first day. Then when you have a public school where the funding is coming from the state taxes, county taxes, local taxes, etc.

Interviewer 30:49
what was the occupation?

Ann Toler 30:53
Most of them were famers, some commercial fishermen. we did have some indices that we had some famous warehouse attached to still hamilton beach that was being but the majority of parents in the private school were farmers. We did have a few professionals that had children in the school, some of the doctors with a couple of doctors in Belhaven that had their children in Dennis in Washington Post a teacher teachers that were teaching in the public school that put their children in school. Well I'll tell you what. It's that small classroom individual attention and they didn't feel like theri child has been stuck in the corner they will care and especially that child will be having difficulty a certain age to learn and discipline was no problem for us. You had one once in a while that would be a little bit different as far as bad discipline and I think like kindergarten simply because of the fact that I've mentioned earlier a lot of the money that the parents supportive. misbehave in school, you're going to be putting in your finishing school you will be punished and I've never had to do that. So, that could be Kevin district which cut down on losing test teaching he did lose 10 minutes correcting somebody and tell him to sit down and be quiet and behave yourself to the office and then you have to draw him back into the rhythm that you work

Interviewer 33:22
In either case public or private, did you have any real discipline problem anytime?

Ann Toler 33:31
No. I since the very first day of class with my students. I told them how to [Inauduble] did is when I spoke to them I stepped in back I started off hard in fact some of them would say shes mean, she this and makes me do that You better not you better not talk in her class but they changed their tune. I started out being strict but by the end of the year [Inaudible] but I stuck to what they expected from me

Interviewer 34:38
you think that the teachers student relationship they want authority compared to authority?

Ann Toler 34:50
Yes, you've got to have a certain amount of authority. But you can also be a friend. You can also be a counselor, but you've got, they've got to know that they can trust you. They've got to know what Mrs. Toler said is what Mrs. Toler meant. They've got to know that what i said was right, and I had to be sure of what I said for what are standard westleigh I had to be sure and back up what I said. And I think you establish trust between the student and the teacher. And I'm talking in high school age. So this is a lot different than with elementary, I don't even relate to preschool. This is this is seventh grade, your seniors. And yet, you still got to let them know that, you know, this is I'm running the show here. I'm here to teach you Chemistry. I'm not here just to be your buddy. And play around the team to teach you. But I will be your friend. And I will help you in any way that I can. So yes, you have to have a certain amount authority but I wasn't a top area

Interviewer 36:29
This is probably an out of sync question. Right now. As you look back on your career did you enjoy the teaching, that's separated from the actual classroom? Did you enjoy the teaching?

Ann Toler 37:14
I certainly did. I enjoy to spend a lot of hours researching, reading on certain types of subject matter I know would not be interesting. It would be flat out boring to them. And I did a lot of debt in order to be able to make it understandable for them and yet Interesting. Hey, I want to see how that's done. But I enjoyed it. Do you noticed one of the things I like in teaching is this: Read, research, relate. That's what I use that was in the forefront of my mind. In my teaching, I try to project it to the students in the way like science. They have a manual science behind it. They knew that was one of the requirements in math, it was an annual science they had they had awesome. They had to definitely tell me what they will be interested in in doing a science project. And that was what I've had emphasized is to read to research and to be like whatever they were working on.

Interviewer 38:57
Can you remember any of those projects

Ann Toler 39:03
I had one boy technically that was really interested in electronics. And that's one of my big fears. But anyway, I encourage you to go out and make a robot be robot not just one of these two foot three foot right, this is six and we paid him and we can of material you could get from the scrap anywhere he could find he got our electric motors from wrecked cars from the Windows record anything he had read that and he had it set up to where he could be in another area maybe 20 or 30 feet away. And we had a remote control car situation Wherever you could work with that was removed but let it roll in his lack of resource was a car bad. But he said that it was racist that it was he had a baton on his name in the road that was that was his record. And it was a recording he had to make it if he won first place in East Carolina Regional Science Fair. they used to have, I don't think they have it anymore. I mean, it was kind of interesting that the US Navy, people were interested in it. That students, whatever they were interested in, we tried to get any information I could read the research relate.

Interviewer 41:16
We touched on a little bit, your style of teaching?

Ann Toler 41:22
You can get it, its hands on. Students learn more, and they just need to sit up there. And they have the book and they can read, by the time they get there, they should be able to read and understand what they read, and will explain it, the principles and so forth. But to see it to know that it did what they do desperately to get the hair. And that's what I'm doing. So we have many lions. And some people sometimes it just is wasting time, they're not doing anything but play in the morning. And my last was, it was a relaxed atmosphere. They could talk with your buddy. They couldn't talk to people across the table. But apparently, because I said it's it's necessary to communicate so that you can know what to do and recall. But it's no need to worry about what that person is doing. Or the person who lands papers behind you do.

Interviewer 42:45
I know I know you working with the FBI. You don't seem to have had. But I'll ask this one just because it's I think it's an it's an important question. As a woman, Did you feel any? No pressure, but were there any obstacles put in your way, in any career path that you did choose one way or the other. If you feel that anybody tried to prevent meeting your goals about your hearing to begin with.

Ann Toler 43:27
That was that was my only obstacle was that that was a good year and I was able to overcome it. And it did not prevent me from Karen doing my job with the FBI as well as I could no good it prevented me from teaching. My students knew I was an avid hit my head and a battery to die on me right in the middle of the class. And I will just say excuse me, my battery's dead and we laugh about it to be buried in that tape. It was relaxed, they laugh about it. So it never could never be as tall as a woman and being

Interviewer 44:10
working with the FBI. Yeah, that would seem like at that point in time

Ann Toler 44:12
I wouldn't think it would have with the FBI from hell and I didn't really stay there that long with them. But the intention? No, I did not.

Interviewer 44:21
In the late 50s A woman getting a job with the FBI was seems to be extremely important.

Ann Toler 44:31
I think I never I never felt like I had any obsticles as far as my sex was concerned.

Interviewer 44:45
To build any any career was open to him as well. Work hard and make make your way

Ann Toler 44:54
no I would say in any career. I'm just saying what you In my teaching yeah but now you know any career you that when you start taking in taking into business as a secretary that would be a big obstacle for me I can think of it like competition a competitive teacher and I did not see competitive teaching at Pantego, everybody's there taught well within their field

Interviewer 45:37
Do you think that was the small town or?

Ann Toler 45:43
Yeah I think so , i think that has a lot to do with it.

Interviewer 45:47
Because I know you said you taught at bear grass I'm familiar with that in school is still in operation. Pentego, are they closed down?

Ann Toler 46:04
Its now north high

Interviewer 46:06
And Christian Academy is still going?

Ann Toler 46:12
Oh yes

Interviewer 46:19
you know, and I can only ask your opinion on this you may have in affiliation with other teachers found out do you think it was different in the same timeframe, the late 50s to the 80s in the urban areas. You said even in public school, where you taught your parents participation was not as good we talked to other teachers and taught in the urban areas and felt that it was even worse condition.

This is I don't know how involved you were or even when you started teaching that the NEA or any of the union organization,

Ann Toler 47:28
the NCEA and the NEA was two of the teaching organizations for public school, I was a member but I was not I was just a member and attending member I attended the meeting when we would meet but as far as being an active No. And they will go that route organization where they would update you on the the newest trends and ideas and you know, especially insurance and retirement they kept you in full but when I left the habit system that discontinued because the private school did not have any national organization or state organization there however we would meet with other private school this was the amount of sports coverage so State Department we would meet with the dispatch teacher would meet maybe once every three months and have a meal together and we sit down we will discuss facts that would be one thing I guess I had two years of each other for teaching methods likewise with the industry but as far as any organization that was state

Interviewer 49:06
did you belong to any professional organization?

Ann Toler 49:09
Yes, the NCEA and the NEA were the only two that I have remember that however I think you should have a choice when and if you want to be but I would encourage you because it is informative magazine magazines that they sent out very informative. Now you know I didn't always get everything in in in my field and research but the elementary teachers receive information and ideas in what to do new things bulletin board ideas things like they I would encourage that I think it should be a choice matter to us if you care too or not.

Interviewer 50:01
We talked about sports conferences and everything but for you as teachers required to be part of that or was that left to?

Ann Toler 50:15
We were not required but we were asked to attend the sporting event and we were asked to help with taking up tickets at the door who signs in sports anyway my high school students to play in sports I want you to watch them they were paying me another match to be a little closer to my children but no, they did not attend so many games per year. You have to do it we just, it was just volunteer work.

Interviewer 51:10
You talked about how busy work did a lot of reading and research for your classes probably on an average day, how much how much did you work how many hours

Ann Toler 51:30
I'd come home from school I would get home about 4:15 to 4:30 and I'd even start preparing to supper if I already have something in a crock pot that was preparing itself I would do some work grading test papers that's like that that would be something that I could start in wouldn't have to remember where to start and going back to it and we will normally eat around 6:30, so I'd say from 4:30 to 6:30 I have the best husband in the world, he'd wash dishes and he will wash and dry clothes while I'm doing so I would say by 7:15 I would be busy and it would depend on what I'm doing which class I'm having people there's always papers to green test to make things like they would say less than less than 30 Sometimes 12 Sometimes we go to bed and get up at four o'clock and work to leave to get rid of it after teaching I would say, 6 maybe 7 hours

Interviewer 53:13
So you'd work a 14 15 hour day

Ann Toler 53:14
I did. If you wanted to be a teacher and were dedicated it doesn't stop when the school bell rings at 3:30 in the afternoon, you take it home and you work with it as long as it takes.

Interviewer 53:45
You just about answered all my questions. Do you have any questions that you think I should have asked that you would like to answer?

Ann Toler 54:07
Did I tell you that I also believed in writing for essays, short science essays? this is my biology attempt love it and I will have them to pick out an area in the chapter that we'd be studying a short essay on the best best way I'm going back to that read research related

Interviewer 54:39
that also comes from your English minor

Ann Toler 54:42
where that when I say English minor I really I guess it should be English literature. I took more literature subjects than grammar. I really did. I loved Literature.

Interviewer 55:03
Did you specialize in British or American literature?

Ann Toler 55:10
Any of them. The least was Greek. If we, you know, to degree there was some enjoyment. I didn't understand that Greek Mythology, I didn't believe it. I will say this much, now and looking on the years of research and looking for scripture verses related to teaching and then in class. I wish I would have taken one year of bible college that would have helped me to be more well versed in chapter, verse, book work at times after that. I have a lot of books that I'm about to help but that was time consuming seeking the book in the chapter in the version that I think I would have been a better teacher. I would have had probably more time maybe for something else in teaching or for my children, my family. I wish I had more knowledge of god's word.

Interviewer 56:47
well, I do thank you.

Ann Toler 56:50
And I do you as well.


Title
Ann Harris Toler Oral History Interview
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Interview with retired science teacher, from Washington County, NC, whose father was director of prisons for State of North Carolina, who attended East Carolina Teachers College, worked in the Federal Bureau of Investigations crime lab, Washington, DC, taught science at Pantego High School, Pantego, NC, 1961-1968, and Pungo Christian Academy, Beaufort County, NC, 1968-1989. - November 15, 1998
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