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Hillsdale FFA class provides petting zoo for Wayne DD students
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WOOSTER The Hillsdale FFA once again this year provided a petting zoo that included an array of animals for students and adults at Ida Sue School to enjoy.
This is the third year the area FFA participated in the event - the last time was in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic didn t allow for such gatherings last year. We are hopeful that we will get back to ‘normal’ in the coming year and will have more opportunity to share with the community, Director of Educational Services for Wayne County Board of DD, Aaron Bernstein, said in an email.
WOOSTER Virginia Blackwell wanted to be a teacher and she wanted to be a teacher in her hometown.
The opportunity finally arrived in 1963, almost 20 years after Blackwell earned her degree from West Virginia State College, an all-Black school at that time. Wooster City Schools hired her as a special education teacher, making her the first Black teacher in the district’s history.
“She was just glad she got to teach… She didn’t look at it as a fight but her right,” said Carolyn Huff of her mother, who died on March 3. She was 98.
Virginia Blackwell s early years
Blackwell was born on March 29, 1922, in Wooster. She graduated from Wooster High School in 1940 and earned a degree in music education with a minor in history from West Virginia State College in 1944.
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