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After being a Roscoe Plowboy, I was a Trent Gorilla for 5 years. Families there were so wonderful and the students were absolutely awesome. I ended up working with Betty again and she has been a dear friend for years. I taught her daughter and when my daughters were born, she showed up at the door with bells on. I taught with a girl named Martha and her boyfriend was a pilot. Periodically he'd fly over with his plane when we had recess. They married. (Of course. ) She was absolutely one of the funniest teachers I ever worked with and she loved those kids. Every lasts one of them. We had a blast together. I rode in a carpool for 5 years to this town and spent many hours with some of the finest teachers in Texas. I had as few as 6 students to as many as 18. I spanked my first student there in the hallway. I'll never forget the time Freddie Patterson bit his tongue in half. Oh my goodness! I also fainted in the teacher's lounge whenever the nurse graphically described giving birth. When I think of each and every one of them, a smile comes to my face.I still see my students every now and then here and there and it is like I never left and I'm lifted off the ground by their character and grace. Syra was always a hoot and nobody loves Trent or gave 150 % like she did. SHaron and Brenda showed a smile on their face all the time. What can I say about Roy Neff/ Well he was a great Superintendent and was the youngest at his time. He would call faculty meetings and chew us out. It took years in Abilene to forget the fear he set in me. In Abilene, faculty meetings are for knowledge, not chewing out. Regardless, he did his job in a professional manner and i know he defended me probably several times. Then there were the times he called us in one by one and chewed the fat. I'll never forget the time he called all the Elementary teachers and told us to be nice to the music teacher. She still whines at her job today in another location. Some people never learn. Then we had the preachers daughter in law who dated the high school boys and their sister was in my class and told me innocently all about it. I also taught with a Kindergarten teacher whose husband was a Superintendent in a nearby town who was strange. She would talk and her tongue would wiggle like a snake. It was hard for me to concentrate on what she said because I was so focused on her wiggling tongue. I'll never forget my first year when I worked with a lady whose son died withReyes syndrome. I was so sad to see her suffer her loss. Her son was like a Greek God , so nice looking for a boy that age, 5th grade I think. That was the first time I heard about aspririn and fever and chhicken pox etc. So when I think about the Freeman's , Brazelton's, Beaver's, Patterson's, Lovelady, Simpson's,Brenem's, Carriker's, a smile comes to my face and I think the world is a better place because of each of you.