Ringing Out 88 Years of School Memories: Nancy Reynolds alumni bid it a farewell

WESTFIELD (Winston-Salem Journal) - Just before 11 a.m., about 160 students filed through the hallways of Nancy Reynolds Elementary School and spilled onto the school grounds. Some got inside waiting cars; others in buses. Alumni and members of the faculty and staff gathered under a shade tree and waved to students as they rode off.

All the while, Devin Joyce and Tanner Watson tugged on a rope to sound a bell that is rung only at the end of the school year. Yesterday, it also marked the end of an era.

"You can hear that bell two miles away on a clear day," said Hickmon Simmons, a 1962 graduate of the high school (which closed in 1964). He was one of several alumni who came back to stroll the hallways one last time and exchange memories with people they hadn't seen in years.