James C. Gardner's kindergarten class picture made in Shreveport, Louisiana.
James is the glum little boy sitting in the front row in a sailor suit.(first row, second child on the viewer's left side.) Mr. Gardner remembers how he cried for most of his second day in school when he turned around and realized that his mother had slipped out of the back of the room where she had remained the previous day. His teacher said that he cried so hard he disrupted the class for most of the day. (He was an only child and leaving his mom was most difficult.)
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