Poetic Obituaries: [Vernice Tilford] Smith expressed her love

for teaching in a poem she wrote. It reads: "Each morning when I wake, I say 'A child depends on me today' . . . And then, at night, I kneel and pray 'Thank God, I helped someone today.'\u2009"

from American-Statesman: Vernice Tilford Smith, Austin High School's first black teacher, dies at 88

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