Thanks to the Pocomoke Public Eye reader who shares the comment below after reading a July, 2019 story we posted about the early days of TV on the Eastern Shore.
Remember TV French class? Our school, Princess Anne Elementary, had one TV. When it was time, we trooped upstairs and watched a female teacher speaking incomprehensible English and Breton French, and later, a man talking about rolling r’s and saying “Watch my lips.”
This would have been c. 1960.
View the original article:
The Pocomoke Public Eye: WBOC-TV BEGINS BROADCASTING JULY 15, 1954.
(1/30/21 reader comment)
Anonymous said...WBOC started broadcasting Delmarva TV School in 1958 in conjunction with the Boards of Education in the surrounding counties. TV classes were offered in art, science, music and French. Each elementary classroom was equipped with a television on a rolling stand and classes were scheduled throughout the week, initially starting in early afternoon. Our second grade science class was first on the daily schedule and the preceding program was the Liberace show. (Anybody remember him?) Miss Julia Robertson was our teacher and also a big Liberace fan. About a half hour before our class was supposed to begin Miss Robertson would turn on the TV, "just to warm it up" and close the classroom door and warn us not to tell anyone what we were actually watching.
(1/30/21 tk for PPE says)
Miss Robertson was my third grade teacher. She was a wonderful teacher and liked by everyone. Yes, I do have to admit that I'm old enough to remember Liberace.
