What a morbid title for a blog but it wasn’t as morbid as if may sound. My sixth grade teacher had passed away at the age of 97 years after leading a happy and successful life. In addition to that she was the one who opened my eyes to the joy of writing and as a result it became a dream of mine to become a published author. As I was making the trip to Glenwood, MN where the funeral was…..
In my previous blog “A Teacher Made Me Do It!” Mrs. Sager my sixth grade teacher gave our class a writing assignment to do a bird report. She displayed several of the outstanding reports on the bulletin board and mine was one of them. My classmates said I wrote well and I believed them. So began my dream to become a successful writer. I must add a footnote to last week’s blog as I received a phone call from Mrs. Sager’s son informing me that his mother…..
Violet Sager was her name. We called her Mrs. Sager. She was my sixth grade teacher and at the time I didn’t realize it but she was a hero to me in more ways than one. That was the fall in 1955 when many of the country schools consolidated and came to the nearest town school. So in the fall of 1955 my Clinton, MN sixth grade class grew to contain 35 rambunctious, energetic boys and girls. Mrs. Sager was able…..