As We Were Then

First Grade

Mrs. Merhant's class.

There were two First Grade classes in the inagural year of Riverside Elementary. Shreveport was growing and the subdivisions to the south of the school would continue to expand over the next six years. Cotton fields would be replaced by housing tracts and the wild, open spaces we explored would become streets full of homes. My street, Meadowbrook, was right on the edge of "civilization." Nothing but fields and cotton to the east and south. That would change sooner than later.