PLEASANT HOPE, Mo. (AP) -- Think about your first school day ever. If you rode a bus, the first school person you met was probably the bus driver.
For generations of kids at Pleasant Hope, that person has been Carl Fisher. He's been driving a bus for the district for almost 64 years.
He no longer drives a morning and afternoon route. He now makes a daily run carrying high school students to and from classes at Ozarks Technical Community College.
Fisher was younger than some of the students he transports when he went from riding a school bus to driving one when he turned 16 in December of 1946.
His dad, a farmer, drove a school bus, as did several other family members. "We all worked hard and got up early," Fisher said.
The first bus Fisher drove was a new 1946 Dodge panel truck his dad had bought.