usm_coh_ohnapieri ohnapieri coh usm yes Oral history with Mrs. Irene (Ponder) Napier Napier, Irene Ponder, 1917- Teachers--Mississippi Public schools--Mississippi Women--Mississippi Wives--Mississippi College students--Mississippi College graduates--Mississippi Graduate students--Mississippi Universities and colleges--Mississippi Civil rights--Mississippi Civil rights movements--Mississippi School integration--Mississippi Distance education--Mississippi University extension--Mississippi University of Southern Mississippi University of Florida Napier, Irene Ponder, 1917- Oral history. Interview conducted on September 2, 1981 with Mrs. Irene Napier at her home in Mount Olive, Mississippi. Napier was born on December 21, 1917 at Mount Olive in Covington, Mississippi. After having studied two years at Jones County Junior College, she began her teaching career in 1942 at Sand Hill School in Beaumont, Mississippi. In 1951, Napier graduated from Mississippi Southern Teachers' College with a BS degree in education as well as doing graduate work. She received a good deal of her college education through night, summer and extension courses from Southern, as well as George Washington University in Washington, D.C., the University of Florida in Pensacola, Florida, and East Texas State Teacher's College in Commerce Texas. Napier taught for thirty-one years in Mississippi elementary and secondary public schools. Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Hattiesburg, Miss.: University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Pyle, R. Wayne, 1948- Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Collection (University of Southern Mississippi) Mississippi Oral History Program Collection (Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive) 2002-03-06 Transcripts Oral histories http://digilib.usm.edu/u?/coh,5838 (Extent) Digital reproduction of 31-page document. Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi, vol. 259, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi. Forms part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of the Mississippi Oral History Program Collection in the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections. Forms part of the Mississippi Digital Library. 1981-09-02 Mississippi Covington County (Miss.) Beaumont (Miss.) Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. 20090817 151132