Biographies: Zelma Long Frazer, 1955, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 19, 1955 Winn Parish Enterprise

To Be Honored Friday

Mrs. Frazer Completes 37 Years As Teacher

After 37 years as a teacher at Winnfield High, Mrs. Zelma Frazer has announced
that she is retiring at the close of this school year.  Students and adults
are planning a program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 20, at the Westside School
auditorium to honor Mrs. Frazer upon her retirement.

Mrs. Frazer has compiled a unique record in her teaching career due partly to
the fact that she has spent 37 years in one school, and, in great measure, due
to the quality of her work.  She is known, in some cases, by grandfather, by
father, and by son to be severe on truants but quick to find a job around her
home for a boy who needs money to buy a suit for graduation.

Her favorite subject as a school teacher has been American history.  Her
purpose in teaching this course she says is "to make better Americans.  I am
not a music teacher, or a speech teacher, but if they can't sing the 'Star
Spangled Banner' and recite the 'Preamble to the Constitution,' the
'Gettysburg Address', the 'Declaration of Independence,' and Patrick Henry's
"Call to Arms,' they haven't had American history under me.

In her duties as assistant principal, the students have found her to be a
stern disciplinarian, but also as understanding as their own mother, and many
a young teacher has found her shoulder a wonderful place to solve her
problems.

In her professional life, she is a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma, National
Education Association, Louisiana Education Association, and the Classroom
Teachers Association.  She is the local advisor of the Future Teachers of
American.

She has always been active in church work and civic activities.

Her plans after retirement are not definite, but as always, "I'll find plenty
to keep me busy."