Why I went to Menard Memorial High School?

The great depression was in the beginning stages.  My brother, William Crumplar, and I, Milford Crumplar, were attending public school "West End Grammar" located a few blocks from my house.

West End Grammar School, Alexandria, LA

Alexandria Daily Town Talk came out about 1925 and said that it appears this school would have to close account of no money.  My mother saw this and, I remember her saying "I don't want my boys on the street, getting into trouble", so she went to Menard Memorial School, a few blocks away on Elliott Street.  It was a Roman Catholic school, staffed by The Brothers of the Sacred Heart.  Mother went to see the princibal, Bro Ceral, and inquired as to the amount of money it would take to send her two sons there, even though they were Methodist, not Catholic.  He agreed to take the boys as students and she would pay, I believe, the figure of $5.00 weekly each.  We started immediately and stayed from that time in 1926 until we graduated from high school in 1940.