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Anna May Daulton was born Feb. 10, 1918, in Dallas, the daughter
of Carl B. and Beulah Blevins Howard. She graduated from North Texas
State Teachers College in Denton in 1939, with a degree in Elementary
Education. Within the same year, she married C.R. Daulton in Fort
Worth.
She searched for a teaching position in the Dallas and Fort Worth
area, but found none because of her “married” status.
After hearing of a teacher opening at Rendon, she decided to try
her luck there. Because she had no car, her father drove her to
Rendon to complete an application. She was told she would need to
interview with each trustee before being hired. Mrs. Daulton and
her father proceeded to each trustee’s home for a visit and
she was hired to begin teaching fall of 1942.
At various times she taught in all of the nine grades offered at
the Rendon School and remembers when the State of Texas added the
twelfth-year requirement for student graduation.
Funny stories abound in her recollection of the “early days.”
One concerns a boy who ran in from recess crying that his friend
had called him a terrible name. After much questioning, he finally
revealed that the friend had called him “skinny!” Relieved,
Mrs. Daulton added that she would have loved it if the boy had called
her skinny! She adds that today a name of insult would be quite
different than it was then.
Mrs. Daulton once remarked, “Although some things fade in
my memory as years go by, the experiences from my days of teaching
remain vivid. I still feel a tug on my heart in the fall when I
see children and teachers beginning another school year together;
and in the spring remembering the feeling of closure on the last
day of the school year. Rendon is where it all happened for me!”
Mrs. Daulton taught school in the Mansfield school district for
30 years and passed away on June 1, 2006. Anna May Daulton Elementary
opened August 2006.
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