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Left: Robert Gant in a family portrait.  Right: UCAC received a Historic Preservation Award from the St. Mary's County Commissioner for their work publishing the book "In Relentless Pursuit of an Education."  Pictured from left: Commissioner Larry Jarboe, UCAC President Janice Walthour, UCAC Vice President Merideth Taylor, and Board members Bobby Gant, Mike Brown, and Bob Lewis. c 2007

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Featured Oral History

Frank Darance Travers 

May 30, 1928   -   August 25, 2024

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Attended Drayden School, Farmer, Store Owner

Frank Travers attended Drayden School from the 1st through 7th grades and later Jarboesville High School in Lexington Park, Maryland.  Drayden School, now a historic site overseen by St. Mary’s County Division of Museums, was a one-room schoolhouse serving African American children during the period of racial segregation. Mr. Travers was the last surviving student and he talks about going to the one-room segregated Drayden School. He also shares his memories of the historic flood of 1933 and the importance of steamboats before the highways connected St. Mary's to Washington and Baltimore.

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