Mayme Shepherd was featured in Look Magazine dated April 6, 1943 on Pages 48,50,51,52 and 53 with photos. It was titled; Rural Teacher of the Cumberlands. Her mission is showing children how to live. Mayme Shepherd was born in Manchester Kentucky in 1913. A product of rural grade schools herself, she knows that in isolated mountain communities children are undernourished in mind as well as body.
Under guidance from the university of Kentucky with aid from the Alford P. Sloan foundation, she has began work towards an educational program around the necessities of food, clothing and shelter by distributing illustrated books. Through songs, games and activities, Mayme Shepherd is shaping pupils who are willing into potentially useful citizens. She is teaching them how to plant vegetable gardens for canning, nut trees, strawberries and raising goats and the value of drinking their milk along with raising chickens and even how to fish the ponds.
Each day she starts out on horseback. Her farmer-husband, Boyd Shepherd helps her strap her books for the children into her saddlebags. She then begins a three mile ride even in the snow and ice to the nearest bus stop. She arrives at the general store to stable her horse in the adjoining barn and then waits for her bus to arrive and begin a complicated itinerary that includes visits to as many as seven schools daily. Her first stop is at the Welchburg School where teachers requested new materials and her guidance in using them. At another school a teacher reports almost perfect attendance since Mayme's last visit. At the Gray Hawk school, Mayme samples hot lunch, and finds it gratifying evidence of the success of the Kentucky Projects Emphasis on nutrition. One of the students walks a mile to school and has only missed two days this year. As Mayme starts her long and arduous trip back home, it is in the memory of hundreds of responsive children that gives her the courage and strength to continue her pioneering program. Her job embraces 71 schools.
Under guidance from the university of Kentucky with aid from the Alford P. Sloan foundation, she has began work towards an educational program around the necessities of food, clothing and shelter by distributing illustrated books. Through songs, games and activities, Mayme Shepherd is shaping pupils who are willing into potentially useful citizens. She is teaching them how to plant vegetable gardens for canning, nut trees, strawberries and raising goats and the value of drinking their milk along with raising chickens and even how to fish the ponds.
Each day she starts out on horseback. Her farmer-husband, Boyd Shepherd helps her strap her books for the children into her saddlebags. She then begins a three mile ride even in the snow and ice to the nearest bus stop. She arrives at the general store to stable her horse in the adjoining barn and then waits for her bus to arrive and begin a complicated itinerary that includes visits to as many as seven schools daily. Her first stop is at the Welchburg School where teachers requested new materials and her guidance in using them. At another school a teacher reports almost perfect attendance since Mayme's last visit. At the Gray Hawk school, Mayme samples hot lunch, and finds it gratifying evidence of the success of the Kentucky Projects Emphasis on nutrition. One of the students walks a mile to school and has only missed two days this year. As Mayme starts her long and arduous trip back home, it is in the memory of hundreds of responsive children that gives her the courage and strength to continue her pioneering program. Her job embraces 71 schools.
Mayme Shepherd was featured in Look Magazine dated April 6, 1943 on Pages 48,50,51,52 and 53 with photos. It was titled; Rural Teacher of the Cumberlands. Her mission is showing children how to live. Mayme Shepherd was born in Manchester Kentucky in 1913. A product of rural grade schools herself, she knows that in isolated mountain communities children are undernourished in mind as well as body.
Under guidance from the university of Kentucky with aid from the Alford P. Sloan foundation, she has began work towards an educational program around the necessities of food, clothing and shelter by distributing illustrated books. Through songs, games and activities, Mayme Shepherd is shaping pupils who are willing into potentially useful citizens. She is teaching them how to plant vegetable gardens for canning, nut trees, strawberries and raising goats and the value of drinking their milk along with raising chickens and even how to fish the ponds.
Each day she starts out on horseback. Her farmer-husband, Boyd Shepherd helps her strap her books for the children into her saddlebags. She then begins a three mile ride even in the snow and ice to the nearest bus stop. She arrives at the general store to stable her horse in the adjoining barn and then waits for her bus to arrive and begin a complicated itinerary that includes visits to as many as seven schools daily. Her first stop is at the Welchburg School where teachers requested new materials and her guidance in using them. At another school a teacher reports almost perfect attendance since Mayme's last visit. At the Gray Hawk school, Mayme samples hot lunch, and finds it gratifying evidence of the success of the Kentucky Projects Emphasis on nutrition. One of the students walks a mile to school and has only missed two days this year. As Mayme starts her long and arduous trip back home, it is in the memory of hundreds of responsive children that gives her the courage and strength to continue her pioneering program. Her job embraces 71 schools.
Under guidance from the university of Kentucky with aid from the Alford P. Sloan foundation, she has began work towards an educational program around the necessities of food, clothing and shelter by distributing illustrated books. Through songs, games and activities, Mayme Shepherd is shaping pupils who are willing into potentially useful citizens. She is teaching them how to plant vegetable gardens for canning, nut trees, strawberries and raising goats and the value of drinking their milk along with raising chickens and even how to fish the ponds.
Each day she starts out on horseback. Her farmer-husband, Boyd Shepherd helps her strap her books for the children into her saddlebags. She then begins a three mile ride even in the snow and ice to the nearest bus stop. She arrives at the general store to stable her horse in the adjoining barn and then waits for her bus to arrive and begin a complicated itinerary that includes visits to as many as seven schools daily. Her first stop is at the Welchburg School where teachers requested new materials and her guidance in using them. At another school a teacher reports almost perfect attendance since Mayme's last visit. At the Gray Hawk school, Mayme samples hot lunch, and finds it gratifying evidence of the success of the Kentucky Projects Emphasis on nutrition. One of the students walks a mile to school and has only missed two days this year. As Mayme starts her long and arduous trip back home, it is in the memory of hundreds of responsive children that gives her the courage and strength to continue her pioneering program. Her job embraces 71 schools.
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