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Posted On: 04/13/2010
Year: 1977
I had an amazing reading teacher either my freshman or sophmore year - Ms. Angela Curtiss (I think it was spelled with two s letters but I am not sure). We read many high level books about politics and society and it influenced me years later to major in political science and become a teacher myself. It just proves that the benefits of education are often long term and cannot be manifested right away.
I have tried to find Ms. Curtis to no avail. She came to PC on loan from the public schools system and she ran the ESAA reading lab in a corner on the first floor. There is a beautiful picture of her in either the 77 or 78 year book which I have lost. I would love to get a copy of that yearbook.
I still have a book at home stamped with the ESAA label. I couldn't bear to bring the book back and still have it and read it. It was Stud's Terkel's Division Street America. I think these were great years for education. I'm sorry to see it descend into testing mania. At times I wish I could come back and teach at PC.
Also, I had Ms. Stith for English and while it was a tough class, I remembered the basics of a research paper years later when I finally got my BA Degree.
Mrs. Morrison was a wonderful English teacher and there was a married couple there - one taught consumer economics or a consumer class and drama. They now teach out somewhere near Riverside.
Sister Susan was our principal, Jimmy Carter was President and social justice and politics were in the air. What great times those were.
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