Hard to say goodbye
During her visit to the campus last week, she returned to the school s playground where she remembered being terrified to climb the steel jungle gym, which still stands today. She recalled that instead of hesitating, she climbed the bars and carried herself across the tall threshold, proving herself to her fellow classmates.
“I felt something come over me,” Ogilvie-McClain said. “I am at the end of this road, and I don’t want it to end. My heart does not want to say goodbye. I think back over the years, so many of our friends have gone but God had left me for a purpose. They can never replace this building.”
Green, James Lincoln Saturday, February 27, 2021
James Green
James Lincoln Green, 92, of Chattanooga, peacefully departed this life on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 in a local hospital.
He was born in Columbia, Tn., on Sept. 16, 1928. Affectionately known as “Preacher”, he was the seventh of seven children born to the late Arlelia Jones Greene and Abe L. Greene. He was educated in the Maury County Public School System and attended College Hill Elementary, Junior and Senior High Schools thru the 11th grade. As a part of the boys’ assignment in the high school Shop class beginning in the 11th grade, they helped to build the Carver Smith High School, completed in 1949. James was in the first class to graduate from Carver Smith in 1950. He also was a member of both the football and basketball teams at both schools.