Waco History Podcast

Graduating from a school and starting a new chapter in life at another campus can be a bittersweet moment. Charles Armstrong remembers his last days at Bell's Hill Elementary School in Waco: "They asked everybody that wanted to, to write a little something about the school, what they—what they learned or didn't learn. So I wrote a little poem, entitled ‘Good-bye, Bell's Hill.' Said: Good-bye, Bell's Hill, good-bye.I'm leaving you now, but I won't forget,The time I've spent with you.The boys and girls and teachers great,My memory will be with you.I've journeyed with you for days and years,And now we drift apart.The pleasant memories of things gone by,Is written in my heart.Good-bye, Bell's Hill, good-bye."Mrs. Armstrong: "It's darling." Interviewer: "That's nice." He recalls a time in 1941 when he and his wife Ruth, who also grew up in Bell's Hill, returned to the school: "They'd vote up there at the school; they still do. And I was voting for the first time, and she was. I walked down the hall there. I was go