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Well, when I was a student and both a faculty

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member at the University, Hamilton was exactly

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what, it was a laboratory school.

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It provided an opportunity for the elementary

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majors, the students, who were going to be

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teaching in elementary schools to do their

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practice teaching, and the teachers who were

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supervising them were the regular teachers

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at the Hamilton school.

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So, it provided a laboratory for our students at

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the University to actually experiment and practice.

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The Red Jackets were a great organization back in

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the late ‘30s and all the way through to the ‘50s.

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They were the pep squad, and they would march in

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all the parades, not just school parades, but

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they would march in all the festival parades

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all over Louisiana.

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They would go most of the places the band went,

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and we used to take fabulous trips.

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We get on the train.

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We go to Mobile and that was really one of

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the greatest highlights of my life when we went

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to play Spring Hill because one, my brother was

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a cheerleader at Spring Hill and I was

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a cheerleader here and it was just a whole

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lot of fun and all of a sudden I look up

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and I see my mother and daddy sitting up in

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the stands and did not know they would be there.

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But I mean these are things I remember from

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my teen years that meant so much and these

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red jackets were all the leaders on the campus.

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They still to this day have

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reunions at Homecoming time.

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They were great.

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Put on great shows.