Thank you both for your very kind and thoughtful words.
It was my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Wardell, who made me want to go into teaching. We all thought she was the prettiest teacher in the WHOLE school ! I got to visit her classroom while I was in college...and from the moment I walked in, it was like I was back in the magic of her 4th grade class again. She was still creating an excitement for learning....I could see it in her student's eyes and I could feel it in my heart.
Yes, lets hear it for the teachers of this Forum as well as all others!!! I constantly hear horror stories about schools today, teachers forced to purchase their own supplies that the school has no funding for, etc., that is true dedication! I have three friends who are teachers and they never cease to amaze me with what they can accomplish with their students despite budget cuts and the like. A toast to one of our countries most important resources; teachers!
“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.”-Margaret Cho comedienne
I saw on Ellen that the average teacher spends $1000 of his or her own money a year on school supplies or things for their students. That is more than $100 per month on a 9 month school year. That is NOT chicken feed....
"Lizzie was to vacation with friends in Marion, Massachusetts, at the summer cottage of Dr. Handy. Friends at the cottage included Dr. Handy's daughter; Miss Louise Holmes Handy (1876 - ?), a school teacher; Miss Isabel J. Fraser (1863-1936) a teacher at the Nathaniel B. Borden School in Fall River, formerly the Morgan Street School where Lizzie attended; Miss Anna Covell Holmes (1861-1943), a teacher and her sister, Miss Mary Louisa Holmes (1859-1934), a former teacher at the Nathaniel B. Borden School and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Holmes; Miss Elizabeth Murray Johnston {1861-1907), a principal at the Broadway School in Fall River and Sunday school teacher at Central Congregational Church; Miss Annie Childs Bush (1864-1912), a teacher at Foster Hooper School in Fall River; Miss Louise O. Remington (1869-1950), a teacher at Mount Hope Avenue School in Fall River and her sister Mabel H. Remington (1866-1956), a teacher at the Pine Street School in Fall River; Miss Alice Lydia Buck (1855-1944), daughter of Rev. Augustus Buck; Mrs. James Frederick Jackson (Caroline S. Thurston and daughter of Rev. Eli Thurston, D.D. of Central Congregational Church); the wife of the former mayor of Fall River; Miss Edith Jackson
(1883 -?), nine year old daughter of Mrs. James F. Jackson; and Miss Jennie Stowell. The Misses Buck, Bush, Fraser, Anna and Mary Holmes, Johnston, and Louise and Mabel Remington and Mrs. James F. Jackson were members of Central Congregational Church in Fall River and served on various committees at Central Congregational Church.
Note: No information was found on Jennie Stowell,
It was Miss Johnston who received a letter from Lizzie the day of the Borden murders. She destroyed the letter because it, 'contained reference to something which in the opinion of the young woman [Miss Johnston] ... that might, in the light of subsequent events, be misconstrued.' Boston Advertiser, August 24, 1893.
Sources
'Firm in Faith / Are Her Marion Friends in the Innocence of Lizzie,' Fall River Daily Globe, August 15, 1892: 8.
'The Sisters Quarrelled,' Providence Daily Journal, August 25, 1892: 1."
