Thanks to Beth (Carlisle) Anderson, here's a Times-Record Article from 1983 about one of everybody's favorite teachers: Miss Eggee! Remember her English classes? I do - and how she had us memorize speeches about the evils of alcohol from the Women's Christian Temperance Union library. Share your own memories of Miss Eggee and your days in her class in the comment section of this post. Thanks, Beth, for this wonderful artifact of history. Brings back some great memories of a class in which I should have paid more attention! Click on article for large image
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Thanks, Beth, for sending in this article! It was great seeing you at the reunion. While in Valley at the President's House (thx again for letting me crash your 61'ers reunion), I was looking thru Barb Sheppard's scrapbook and found a picture of Miss Eggee taken by the school photographer, and it was so great I asked Barb if I could borrow it and make a copy. I'll be sending in this photo for the blog....dear Miss Eggee in her trademark Pendleton jacket and head scarf. She and Mr. Hatlestad were the best English teachers I ever had. My favorite memory of Miss Eggee is her assignment to us to write a business letter, which I wrote to a company, ordering 4 grapefruit spoons. I kept those spoons for decades, til they finally got lost somewhere along the way. Great memories!
Bonnie Cink Ness
Beth, where in the world did you find this news article? It answers so many questions I have had about where Miss Egge came from, how old she might have been when we had her as a teacher, etc. etc.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
That article was inside the cover of my 1961 yearbook! My parents must have sent it to me. I had Miss Eggee in Junior High, and I remember the spell-downs and also the fact that she had my aunt and my mother in class, so many years earlier (Mom was a 1936 graduate). The article was a refresher about her sister, also. I enjoyed her reflections about the students and how they change. Glad you enjoyed the memories!
Our family used Miss Egge's sister Pauline as our seamstress for years, and I remember going to their house to have hems done in all my dresses, coats etc. Remember when we would never think of wearing a dress that hadn't been hemmed so that it hung correctly (and the same) all the way around! I still think of that when I see some lady with a skirt that is shorter in front than the back, or visa versa.
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