| Summary: | This image is a photograph used in the book Auburn, a Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village by Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, 3rd edition, 2013, depicting the history of the city and the university. From page 85: Miss Leland Cooper posed in 1912 or 1913 with her first- and second-grade Auburn students. Caroline Drake DuBose ... second from left in front row, provided the photograph and wrote that the grammar school was located on Tichenor Avenue, later for many years the site of the Post Office. She ... provided the following information: "They are first row, left to right: first grade, boy, cannot recall the name; Caroline 'Bessie' Drake; girl, cannot identify; Dorothy Taylor, father had a jewelry store; Julia Mitchell, father taught in the college; Eileen Donahue, father was football coach for many years; Elsie Gibbs, uncle ran garage; Robert Duncan, father president of Auburn College. Second row, second grade: Mary Foster, father farmer; girl, can't identify; Mary Stodghill, mother had boardinghouse for a long time; the next two girls, can't identify; Sudie Dowdell. Third row: Miss Cooper; Billy Watt, father professor in college; Louie Tamplin; John D. O'Neal, mother had boardinghouse; Dick Yarbrough, father a doctor." Photo source: Caroline Drake DuBose and Auburn University Archives.
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