Review of For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine

Authors

Courtney Vaughn-Roberson, University of Oklahoma

Date of this Version

1990

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, by Stella Gipson Polk, is a touching autobiography that tempts the reader by offering only a glimpse into the author's life. It is a series of vignettes primarily about Stella and the school children who, from 1918 to 1965, she taught and nurtured in several one-room country schools on the West Texas prairie. Thus, the book's organization flows from Stella's own remembrances, includes few pointedly personal insights about the author, and evades self-aggrandizement.