In 1959, at the age of 11, he walked out of his sixth-grade classroom and into the history books.
In one sixth-grade classroom, two of six students said they would probably go to charter schools next year, unless Adams could get its seventh grade started.
In some sixth-grade classrooms, there are more than 33 students; the state average is 22.
Today his life centers on the students in his sixth-grade classroom.
The fifth- and sixth-grade classroom doubles as a town hall for meetings and other official functions.
Shannon Wright, a 32-year-old English and spelling teacher, was in her sixth-grade classroom, going over the day's lesson.
Specially trained police officers go into fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms to give 17 lessons intended to help children learn to resist drugs.
Two lopsided reed-walled huts pass for fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms.
Parents viewed their annual rebuilding of the reed-walled fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms as a sufficient contribution, he said.
He found his sixth-grade classroom and sat at what seemed like his old desk.