1 10 3 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/simms/files/original/The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection/MAF1042_newspaper-clippings-of-an-article-about-the-death.pdf 26383cfad77913cc336f9ff97d1ee749 PDF Text Text Mary Fairfax was a ,. belove~< teac.her at the'· Simms·· School · in the . city. Well-Known .. Teacher, ~Second Moni' •· ' t . .'> · ,-, ... .; ~. ])~es At 94 . ,, ,; Mary Fra nces Fairfax. .Taug .ht 4-Plus Decades . . By M ELVIN M ASON Daily N ews -Record Mary Fran.ces Fairfax, a well-· known . educator · who spent more than four decades in the classroom, many of them in Harrisonburg's allblack school during segregation, died Saturday at her home on East Gay Street. She was 94. Fairfax, a Harrisonburg native, taught at the Lucy F. Simms School, Harrisonburg's alr-black school, from 1941 until it closed in .•i966. After the city desegregated its classrooms, Fairfax tal!ght for . a decade at WatArman Elemen. fary School. · ~ In a 2001 interview, Fairfax _~ said desegregation was good, but -j •., . See TEACHER, Page 4 �4 Mo nday, April 24, 2006 NEW S illaily N.l'lllJJ-fil.l'cllrb Harri sonburg, Va. Family Influenced Career Choice Of Valley Schoolteacher Mary Frances Fairfax Teacher· FROM PAGE 1 ---------~-she bemoaned the closing of the Simms School. "When the schooJ closed it really killed the .community," she said at the time. In that same interview, Fairfax r emembered her joy while t eaching at Simms, which opened two years before she started teaching there. She said she treasured an old phot o of the Simms School choir. "That's my pride and joy, that chorus," she said. "They h ad the inost beautiful voices ." In the photo, Fairfax is listed by her maiden name, "Miss Awkard," the long-time accompanist. In earlier years, when Mary Awkard was the only music teacher, she directed from the piano. Influencing Pupils Those who knew Fairfax sa y h er excitement about teaching affected those she t aught. Though Fairfax had no children of her own, Fairfax's niece, Mary Ann Tucker, 54, remembered that her aunt cared deeply for ~er students, her own career choice. Tucker seeing them in some ways as taught in Chesterfield County schools near Richmond fo r her own. "She was always concerned 32 years. "She was definitely my secabout her students. It didn't matter if they were African- ond mother," Tucker said SunAmerican or Caucasian," Tuck- . day after arriving in Harrisoner said. "She had high expecta- burg. tions of her · students and for those of us in her family. She 'Lady Of Wisdom' Amelia Jones, a former secwas very proud of all our accomplishments." retary at Simms, said Fairfax Tucker, who also attended commanded respect and was the Simms School, said Fairfax always reliable in what she frequently contacted her for- told others. Jones remembers mer students after they left the Fairfax and her now-deceased brother, Joseph Awkard, as alclassroom. "To so mariy people, she ways attending Simms and would say 'Are you· doing Effinger Street school reunions your best? Are you in school?' to keep the memory of the She followed through on her school alive. The school, students. She kept in touch though not used for classes with her students, and they anymore, is now a center that would always correspond houses several community with her." groups. "She was a lady of wisdom," said Jones, who lives Held Master's Degree Fairfax went into teaching in Penn Lair d. "If she told because of her family, which you something, you could placed great value on educa- count on it." Funeral arrangements · are , tion, Tucker said. Tucker says her aunt, who pending with the Kyger FunerCourtesy photo received a bachelor's degree al Home in Harrisonburg. from Virginia State University and a .master's from Co- Contact Melvin Mason at 574-6273 Mary Frances Fairfax (far right) stands with a group of Lucy F. Simms students in a May 1952 photo. She taught ·· in local schools for more than 40 years. or mmason@dnronline.com lumbia University, influenced � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection Description An account of the resource The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection consists of over 500 items that were digitized to support the development and design of the 2022 exhibit, Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Mary Awkard Fairfax. The series consists of photographs and some historical documents from Mary Awkard Fairfax’s personal collection and her family’s papers (1939–2012), shared with the Celebrating Simms project by Mrs. Fairfax’s niece, Mary Ann Smith-Tucker. The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection is a post-custodial collection, meaning that it consists entirely of digitized materials and that all original materials were returned to the custody of their original owners immediately after being digitized. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Celebrating Simms Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939-2012 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper Clippings of an Article About the Death of Mary Awkard Fairfax in Daily News-Record Subject The topic of the resource Mary Awkard Fairfax Newspaper Daily News-Record Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings of an article about the death of Mary Awkard Fairfax from Daily News-Record Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Harrisonburg (Va.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daily News-Record Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mary Ann Smith-Tucker Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available James Madison University Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 24 2006 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Justin L. Attas (digitizer & annotator) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper clippings Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC By-NC 4.0</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MAF1042 Daily News-Record Mary Awkard Fairfax Newspaper https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/simms/files/original/The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection/MAF0053a_daily-news-record-photograph-of-mary-awkard-fairfax.jpg 787c591ad187c8f3d6d671f4bf34ed21 https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/simms/files/original/The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection/MAF0053b_back-of-daily-news-record-photo-of-mary-awkard.jpg 3ea3d754d44baa917139418115fbc837 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection Description An account of the resource The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection consists of over 500 items that were digitized to support the development and design of the 2022 exhibit, Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Mary Awkard Fairfax. The series consists of photographs and some historical documents from Mary Awkard Fairfax’s personal collection and her family’s papers (1939–2012), shared with the Celebrating Simms project by Mrs. Fairfax’s niece, Mary Ann Smith-Tucker. The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection is a post-custodial collection, meaning that it consists entirely of digitized materials and that all original materials were returned to the custody of their original owners immediately after being digitized. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Celebrating Simms Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939-2012 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daily News-Record Photograph of Mary Awkard Fairfax and James Fairfax Description An account of the resource Photograph from the Daily News-Record of Mary Awkard Fairfax and her husband James Fairfax sitting by a piano in their home from the Spring of 1980 from page twenty-four of the red family photo album Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michael W. Reilly Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mary Ann Smith-Tucker Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available James Madison University Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Megan N. Medeiros (digitizer & annotator) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource black-and-white photographs Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC By-NC 4.0</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MAF0053 Daily News-Record James Fairfax Mary Awkard Fairfax https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/simms/files/original/The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection/MAF0069_newspaper-clipping-james-fairfax-wins-driving-award.jpg 96a4610eb1b255df8cbb1e13e5058403 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection Description An account of the resource The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection consists of over 500 items that were digitized to support the development and design of the 2022 exhibit, Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Mary Awkard Fairfax. The series consists of photographs and some historical documents from Mary Awkard Fairfax’s personal collection and her family’s papers (1939–2012), shared with the Celebrating Simms project by Mrs. Fairfax’s niece, Mary Ann Smith-Tucker. The Mary Awkard Fairfax Collection is a post-custodial collection, meaning that it consists entirely of digitized materials and that all original materials were returned to the custody of their original owners immediately after being digitized. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Celebrating Simms Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available JMU Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939-2012 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper Clipping James Fairfax Wins Driving Award Description An account of the resource Newspaper clipping announcing James Fairfax's winning of the 1977 Driver of the Year Award from page twenty-seven of the red family photo album Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mary Ann Smith-Tucker Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available James Madison University Libraries Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Megan N. Medeiros (digitizer & annotator) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource color photographs Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC By-NC 4.0</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MAF0069 Daily News-Record Dayton Transportation Company Dayton Transportation Corporation James Fairfax Virginia Driver of the Year