The woman who served here in
our local Public School System for more than forty years and who developed
an elementary school into an approved High School which the citizens of
Roanoke with the approval of the School Board named in her honor, "The
Lucy Addison High School", has just ended a two weeks' visit here in our
midst which she hugely enjoyed. Since retiring, Miss Addison lives in
Washington, D. C., where she has for many years maintained a home for an
aged mother who is now dead.
No former citizen can boast of a larger claim upon the love and esteem of
the Magic City than Miss Addison. Certainly no person among our own
people has ever touched in so vital a sense as she has, the lives of the
youths of our community and none who by labor and example has so much to
inspire them to live clean and honorable lives and to become good and useful
men and women. There are hundreds in Roanoke who are what they are, to
avery large extent, because of what Miss Addison was to them during their
early days as pupils under her care during her forty years' career in our
midst as a teacher and principal of the Roanoke City Public Schools.
Her many friends here received her as usual, in the most cordial manner, and
everybody united in making her visit pleasant. She is in
excellent health and seems very happy.