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Early Impression and Impact of Coach Small and New Stanton Senior High School

Our parents, neighborhood athletes, teachers, and coaches at James Weldon Johnson Junior High School would tell us about New Stanton before we got there either to play in the band under the direction of Mr. K. D. McFarlin, or singing in the glee club under the direction of Mrs. A. H. Moore, or play sports for Coach James P. “Bubbling” Small. They would tell us you had to be disciplined with good character and be a good student in your classes if you wanted to be a part of any of these activities. These were people who knew them, and after hearing that band every morning for nine years—six years in elementary school and three years in junior high school—the sound of that New Stanton Senior High School Band at parades was embedded in your psyche, body, soul, and spirit; you just couldn’t wait to graduate from junior high school and get to New Stanton Senior High School.