Seventh Grade

Mr. Giles Brown

Julius Fuller described his first male teacher, “that was the first male teacher that I’d experienced, and he was a pretty strict disciplinarian, but he was a good educator.”

Reverend Gary Hash said "There were a few of them there were really mean. Of course, they were still paddling and things, and I was used to that. Lewis, Mr. Brown, at Calfee, had a switch, and switching, man, it's unreal."

George Penn recalled "Mr. Brown, seventh grade, and Mr. Brown was a weirdo, then that was it for the teachers. Mr. Brown liked the little boys. Y'all are grown, so….  I would turn him in. [I’d say], “I’m not staying here this evening. I’m going home. Plus, I’m gonna get my brother and bring him back.” And I did, and we'd deal with him.  “He's lying,” [Mr. Brown said]. I said, “No, I’m not.”  But he's dead and gone on there. I hope they're not letting him teach in heaven, if that's where he went, because you’d have angels flying around backwards. He was something else. That's the wrong word. He was something else. G. Lewis Brown. But those were the teachers there."

*Also taught fourth grade and was the principal of Calfee