Vivia Craig, daughter of Edgar Montgomery Craig, Sr. and Vivia Corinne (Roark) Craig, was born in Perry County, Alabama on July 3, 1902, the eighth child in a family of eleven children. She died on February 13, 1991, in Dade City, Pasco County, FL. She was predeceased by her brothers, William Richard Craig in 1918, Allen Thornton Craig in 1978 in Athens, Clarke County, GA, Edgar Montgomery Craig, Jr. in 1946, Walter Cecil Craig, in 1962, Albert Lee Craig in 1948, Herbert Arthur Craig in 1976, and Fred Willard Craig in 1988, and sisters, Elizabeth (Craig) Maxwell, Julia Craig, and Katie (Craig) Henderson.
Vivia Craig resided in Dade City, Pasco County, according to the 1910 and 1920 Federal Census. She graduated from Pasco County High School in 1921.
She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Latin from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL.
On Oct. 16, 1922, a newspaper article showed Miss Vivia Craig had been appointed to Elfers School in Pasco County as an intermediate teacher.
On Aug. 29, 1924 the New Port Richey Press reports that Gulf High School will begin its third term on September 1, 1924, with Miss Vivia Craig, who taught at Elfers last year. She taught school in the Tampa Bay area (Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas County), where she helped promote the Classical League for students studying Latin.
She was in Lake County, FL according to the 1935 Florida State Census
Between 1954-1957, she was teaching Latin at Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville, FL.
By 1957, she had been recruited by Charles Thomas Council, Sr. to become the first Latin teacher at the newly built Englewood High School on the Southside of Jacksonville, FL, where she taught until about 1966. When Charles T. Council, Sr. was invited to become a new principal at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL, he again recruited Vivia Craig to come to that county to teach Latin. She eventually moved back to her hometown of Dade City, Pasco County, FL, in the Tampa Bay region.
Vivia Craig served as vice president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, CAMWS, in 1954, when she was teaching at Andrew Jackson High School, Jacksonville, FL, and in 1966-1968, when she was teaching at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL.
Vivia Craig proved enthusiasm, strict discipline, hard work, and creative teaching ideas would promote the teaching of Latin to a new level of interest among her students. She participated in school activities like a cheerleader when the varsity basketball team played the faculty, yelling her cheers in Latin. She initiated Roman banquets for students, entered her advanced students in Classical League competitions at the Latin conventions in Tampa Bay area. Many of her students report learning more about construction of the English language in the ninth and tenth grade levels in her class than they ever learned in English class. She urged students to look for meanings of words that originated in Latin. Many future doctors, lawyers and teachers also enrolled in her advanced classes. The legacy of Vivia Craig's unusual methods of teaching and discipline are special memories to all her Latin students.
Her paternal grandparents were William Moore Craig and Julia Emelyn (Montgomery) Craig, daughter of John Harvey Montgomery and Hannah Evelyn Emelyn (Moore) Montgomery.
Vivia Craig is buried in Block 15 of the Dade City Cemetery, Dade City, Pasco County, FL, along with three brothers. Her parents and three brothers are buried in Block 7 of the same cemetery. One brother is buried in the Tampa Bay region of Florida in another cemetery. Her sister, Katie (Craig) Henderson, is buried in the Dade City Cemetery. An "infant daughter" of her parents, born in 1899 who died in 1900, possibly "Julia" Craig, is buried in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Perry County, AL, along with her paternal grandparents.
Vivia Craig resided in Dade City, Pasco County, according to the 1910 and 1920 Federal Census. She graduated from Pasco County High School in 1921.
She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Latin from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL.
On Oct. 16, 1922, a newspaper article showed Miss Vivia Craig had been appointed to Elfers School in Pasco County as an intermediate teacher.
On Aug. 29, 1924 the New Port Richey Press reports that Gulf High School will begin its third term on September 1, 1924, with Miss Vivia Craig, who taught at Elfers last year. She taught school in the Tampa Bay area (Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas County), where she helped promote the Classical League for students studying Latin.
She was in Lake County, FL according to the 1935 Florida State Census
Between 1954-1957, she was teaching Latin at Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville, FL.
By 1957, she had been recruited by Charles Thomas Council, Sr. to become the first Latin teacher at the newly built Englewood High School on the Southside of Jacksonville, FL, where she taught until about 1966. When Charles T. Council, Sr. was invited to become a new principal at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL, he again recruited Vivia Craig to come to that county to teach Latin. She eventually moved back to her hometown of Dade City, Pasco County, FL, in the Tampa Bay region.
Vivia Craig served as vice president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, CAMWS, in 1954, when she was teaching at Andrew Jackson High School, Jacksonville, FL, and in 1966-1968, when she was teaching at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL.
Vivia Craig proved enthusiasm, strict discipline, hard work, and creative teaching ideas would promote the teaching of Latin to a new level of interest among her students. She participated in school activities like a cheerleader when the varsity basketball team played the faculty, yelling her cheers in Latin. She initiated Roman banquets for students, entered her advanced students in Classical League competitions at the Latin conventions in Tampa Bay area. Many of her students report learning more about construction of the English language in the ninth and tenth grade levels in her class than they ever learned in English class. She urged students to look for meanings of words that originated in Latin. Many future doctors, lawyers and teachers also enrolled in her advanced classes. The legacy of Vivia Craig's unusual methods of teaching and discipline are special memories to all her Latin students.
Her paternal grandparents were William Moore Craig and Julia Emelyn (Montgomery) Craig, daughter of John Harvey Montgomery and Hannah Evelyn Emelyn (Moore) Montgomery.
Vivia Craig is buried in Block 15 of the Dade City Cemetery, Dade City, Pasco County, FL, along with three brothers. Her parents and three brothers are buried in Block 7 of the same cemetery. One brother is buried in the Tampa Bay region of Florida in another cemetery. Her sister, Katie (Craig) Henderson, is buried in the Dade City Cemetery. An "infant daughter" of her parents, born in 1899 who died in 1900, possibly "Julia" Craig, is buried in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Perry County, AL, along with her paternal grandparents.
Vivia Craig, daughter of Edgar Montgomery Craig, Sr. and Vivia Corinne (Roark) Craig, was born in Perry County, Alabama on July 3, 1902, the eighth child in a family of eleven children. She died on February 13, 1991, in Dade City, Pasco County, FL. She was predeceased by her brothers, William Richard Craig in 1918, Allen Thornton Craig in 1978 in Athens, Clarke County, GA, Edgar Montgomery Craig, Jr. in 1946, Walter Cecil Craig, in 1962, Albert Lee Craig in 1948, Herbert Arthur Craig in 1976, and Fred Willard Craig in 1988, and sisters, Elizabeth (Craig) Maxwell, Julia Craig, and Katie (Craig) Henderson.
Vivia Craig resided in Dade City, Pasco County, according to the 1910 and 1920 Federal Census. She graduated from Pasco County High School in 1921.
She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Latin from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL.
On Oct. 16, 1922, a newspaper article showed Miss Vivia Craig had been appointed to Elfers School in Pasco County as an intermediate teacher.
On Aug. 29, 1924 the New Port Richey Press reports that Gulf High School will begin its third term on September 1, 1924, with Miss Vivia Craig, who taught at Elfers last year. She taught school in the Tampa Bay area (Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas County), where she helped promote the Classical League for students studying Latin.
She was in Lake County, FL according to the 1935 Florida State Census
Between 1954-1957, she was teaching Latin at Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville, FL.
By 1957, she had been recruited by Charles Thomas Council, Sr. to become the first Latin teacher at the newly built Englewood High School on the Southside of Jacksonville, FL, where she taught until about 1966. When Charles T. Council, Sr. was invited to become a new principal at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL, he again recruited Vivia Craig to come to that county to teach Latin. She eventually moved back to her hometown of Dade City, Pasco County, FL, in the Tampa Bay region.
Vivia Craig served as vice president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, CAMWS, in 1954, when she was teaching at Andrew Jackson High School, Jacksonville, FL, and in 1966-1968, when she was teaching at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL.
Vivia Craig proved enthusiasm, strict discipline, hard work, and creative teaching ideas would promote the teaching of Latin to a new level of interest among her students. She participated in school activities like a cheerleader when the varsity basketball team played the faculty, yelling her cheers in Latin. She initiated Roman banquets for students, entered her advanced students in Classical League competitions at the Latin conventions in Tampa Bay area. Many of her students report learning more about construction of the English language in the ninth and tenth grade levels in her class than they ever learned in English class. She urged students to look for meanings of words that originated in Latin. Many future doctors, lawyers and teachers also enrolled in her advanced classes. The legacy of Vivia Craig's unusual methods of teaching and discipline are special memories to all her Latin students.
Her paternal grandparents were William Moore Craig and Julia Emelyn (Montgomery) Craig, daughter of John Harvey Montgomery and Hannah Evelyn Emelyn (Moore) Montgomery.
Vivia Craig is buried in Block 15 of the Dade City Cemetery, Dade City, Pasco County, FL, along with three brothers. Her parents and three brothers are buried in Block 7 of the same cemetery. One brother is buried in the Tampa Bay region of Florida in another cemetery. Her sister, Katie (Craig) Henderson, is buried in the Dade City Cemetery. An "infant daughter" of her parents, born in 1899 who died in 1900, possibly "Julia" Craig, is buried in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Perry County, AL, along with her paternal grandparents.
Vivia Craig resided in Dade City, Pasco County, according to the 1910 and 1920 Federal Census. She graduated from Pasco County High School in 1921.
She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Latin from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL.
On Oct. 16, 1922, a newspaper article showed Miss Vivia Craig had been appointed to Elfers School in Pasco County as an intermediate teacher.
On Aug. 29, 1924 the New Port Richey Press reports that Gulf High School will begin its third term on September 1, 1924, with Miss Vivia Craig, who taught at Elfers last year. She taught school in the Tampa Bay area (Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas County), where she helped promote the Classical League for students studying Latin.
She was in Lake County, FL according to the 1935 Florida State Census
Between 1954-1957, she was teaching Latin at Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville, FL.
By 1957, she had been recruited by Charles Thomas Council, Sr. to become the first Latin teacher at the newly built Englewood High School on the Southside of Jacksonville, FL, where she taught until about 1966. When Charles T. Council, Sr. was invited to become a new principal at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL, he again recruited Vivia Craig to come to that county to teach Latin. She eventually moved back to her hometown of Dade City, Pasco County, FL, in the Tampa Bay region.
Vivia Craig served as vice president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, CAMWS, in 1954, when she was teaching at Andrew Jackson High School, Jacksonville, FL, and in 1966-1968, when she was teaching at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, FL.
Vivia Craig proved enthusiasm, strict discipline, hard work, and creative teaching ideas would promote the teaching of Latin to a new level of interest among her students. She participated in school activities like a cheerleader when the varsity basketball team played the faculty, yelling her cheers in Latin. She initiated Roman banquets for students, entered her advanced students in Classical League competitions at the Latin conventions in Tampa Bay area. Many of her students report learning more about construction of the English language in the ninth and tenth grade levels in her class than they ever learned in English class. She urged students to look for meanings of words that originated in Latin. Many future doctors, lawyers and teachers also enrolled in her advanced classes. The legacy of Vivia Craig's unusual methods of teaching and discipline are special memories to all her Latin students.
Her paternal grandparents were William Moore Craig and Julia Emelyn (Montgomery) Craig, daughter of John Harvey Montgomery and Hannah Evelyn Emelyn (Moore) Montgomery.
Vivia Craig is buried in Block 15 of the Dade City Cemetery, Dade City, Pasco County, FL, along with three brothers. Her parents and three brothers are buried in Block 7 of the same cemetery. One brother is buried in the Tampa Bay region of Florida in another cemetery. Her sister, Katie (Craig) Henderson, is buried in the Dade City Cemetery. An "infant daughter" of her parents, born in 1899 who died in 1900, possibly "Julia" Craig, is buried in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Perry County, AL, along with her paternal grandparents.
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