East Fayette Elementary School

has named its media center for a longtime teacher at the school, the late

Senior DeVaughn Price.

When Senior Price retired from

teaching in 1969, her career had spanned from the "one room"

schoolhouse to classrooms divided by individual grade levels.

Coming to Fayette County as

a bride in 1932, she taught the primary grades of first through third

grade through the Fayette County School System prior to desegregation.

She had married Fayette County native William Thomas "Buddy"

Price and they lived and reared their family on Bernhard Road, off Ga.

Highway 85 south. Her teaching career spanned 40 years, and she taught

many generations of African-American school children.

Her grandfather, Sandy DeVaughn,

joined the United States Colored Troops in 1863 in Fort Scott, Kansas,

during the Civil War and served in the 83rd Regiment Infantry. When he

was discharged in 1865, he moved to Douglas County, became an African

Methodist Episcopal minister and founded a school at which "Miss

Senior" began her early education. She attended Booker T. Washington

and Morris Brown high Schools in the summers and evenings.

State College on the weekends and returning to teach during the week,

she earned her bachelor of science degree in 1960.

When the schools for African-American

children were consolidated, she began teaching at the newly built Fayette

County Training School, which is now East Fayette Elementary School. The

original training school was built in the early 1950s. She taught here

for the last 12 years of her teaching career.

She died June 18, 1985, at

79.

A program was held at the school

to dedicate the media center in her name and it was attended by many direct

descendants and former students.

Fayette County School Superintendent

John DeCotis, East Fayette Principal Faith Hardnett, and Fayette County

Board of Education Chairman Terri Smith spoke, as well as Price's children,

grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.

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