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Virginia School District Discovers 8th-Grade Essay Written by Patsy Cline
It was in her PERMANENT RECORD.
MUSIC & MUSICIANS
School District Discovers 8th-Grade Essay Written by Patsy Cline
The country music icon's 1948 homework assignment was donated to the Patsy Cline Historic House.
By Mark Segraves • Published December 16, 2022 • Updated 3 hours ago
Patsy Cline – one of the greatest voices in country music – grew up in Winchester, Virginia, where the school district recently discovered a handwritten essay she wrote in the eighth grade. It’s the oldest artifact related to the singer.
While in the eighth grade at Gore High School, Cline wrote a three-and-a-half-page essay for her history class about her dream of becoming a cosmetologist. ... At 15, Cline wrote she thought cosmetology would be a good career path for her because, “I can do more with my hands than I can with my head.”
The essay has been kept in her school files since 1948, only recently discovered when the school system began digitizing student records. ... “I couldn’t believe it,” said Karen Helm, board president of Celebrating Patsy Cline. “I really could not believe that they found a document like this in an old archive school system paper records, so we’re really lucky that it wasn’t touched and handled or somebody didn’t realize what they had and took it.”
Friday in the living room of the family home in Winchester where Cline spent her teen years with her mother and siblings sharing one bedroom – now the Patsy Cline Historic House – the school superintendent presented the letter as a gift. ... “We were so excited to get this document,” Helm said. “We don’t have anything belonging to Patsy that is this old or was hers at that young of age.”
School District Discovers 8th-Grade Essay Written by Patsy Cline
The country music icon's 1948 homework assignment was donated to the Patsy Cline Historic House.
By Mark Segraves • Published December 16, 2022 • Updated 3 hours ago
Patsy Cline – one of the greatest voices in country music – grew up in Winchester, Virginia, where the school district recently discovered a handwritten essay she wrote in the eighth grade. It’s the oldest artifact related to the singer.
While in the eighth grade at Gore High School, Cline wrote a three-and-a-half-page essay for her history class about her dream of becoming a cosmetologist. ... At 15, Cline wrote she thought cosmetology would be a good career path for her because, “I can do more with my hands than I can with my head.”
The essay has been kept in her school files since 1948, only recently discovered when the school system began digitizing student records. ... “I couldn’t believe it,” said Karen Helm, board president of Celebrating Patsy Cline. “I really could not believe that they found a document like this in an old archive school system paper records, so we’re really lucky that it wasn’t touched and handled or somebody didn’t realize what they had and took it.”
Friday in the living room of the family home in Winchester where Cline spent her teen years with her mother and siblings sharing one bedroom – now the Patsy Cline Historic House – the school superintendent presented the letter as a gift. ... “We were so excited to get this document,” Helm said. “We don’t have anything belonging to Patsy that is this old or was hers at that young of age.”