and even sad times too.

We had our neighbor friends, June, Margaret, Betty, Dorothy, and I plus one 8th grade graduation class so we weren't alone when we started this big adventure. It did take some getting used to coming from grammar school where you spent the whole day in one classroom and then trying to find your way around on a big campus where each class is in a different room and sometimes in a different building, but by the end of the ninth grade we were veterans. We had some classes with old friends and made many new ones that we have stayed in touch with through the years

I had a lot of wonderful teachers, but my 9th grade English teacher, Mrs. Culvyhouse was real special. She helped me learn the parts of speech and to use them correctly and we memorized lots of poetry that we had to stand and recite our favorite one and thus I learned to love poetry and it helped me over my shyness.

Another special teacher was my 10th grade bookkeeping teacher Mr. Misner. We kids called my friend Betty Peterson "Pete" and he named us "Pete and Repeat." He taught us how we should dress and about wearing too much makeup in an office in the business world and he promised he would not give homework on the weekends if none of the girls wore too much makeup to class. Our class was the first period after lunch and the boys in the class stationed themselves at both doors to check makeup so there would be no weekend homework. This bookkeeping helped me so much to budget and making payments on things after I was married and on my job in the cleaning shop and jewelry and health food store when my kids were in school.

My shorthand teacher, Mr. Bawer, nick named me Millie. Some of the kids called me "Tiny, PeeWee Marge or Margie."
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