I had to repeat the 1st grade because I nearly died from measles.

First 1st grade teacher: Miss Hipp
Second 1st grade teacher: Miss Wells
(I then skipped the 2nd grade)
3rd & 4th grade teacher: Miss Logan
5th, 6th, & 7th grade teacher: Mrs. Woodring
8th grade teacher: Mr. Pettit

I attended a very small country school in the 1950's. The norm was two classes in the same classroom.

Remember the pink signs you had to place in your front window to ward off visitors?

Sickest I can remember ever being; scary fever and miserable for days.

I went to a birthday party with maybe 10 -12 kids. Two days later my mom told me I was going to be sick because one of the other kids had broken out with the measles. We all had the measles by the end of the next week.

We all missed Easter.

My sister got sick right as I was getting better. Then in early June, we had Rubella (German Measles) Not nearly as sick though.

Miss Muehl (Kindergarten), Mr. Waldon (4th grade), Mrs. Miles (6th grade). I remember these teachers because they were especially nice to me, a shy, weird little kid who'd skipped a grade and didn't have a lot of friends.

K - Hart
1st - Rinchler
2nd - Belvo
3rd - Grieshop
4th - Healey
5th - Roach
6th - Tegzee
Preschool: Cranberry

Edit: Junior High was 7th & 8th grade for me. Harder to remember their names because there were so many of them. Only had one teacher for each grade in elementary school, with special teachers (music and such) appearing on a regular schedule.

1. Mrs. Wise
2. Mrs. Hartmann
3. Miss DeWitt
4. Mrs. McFarland
5. Mrs. Maze
6. Mrs. Swails

In the 7th & 8th grades, our classes were like high school with a different teacher for each subject. I can't remember all the subjects, let alone all those teachers.

My sister was recently surprised that none of her husband’s family knew their blood types!

I learned my blood type in 7th grade during a science class! We had to prick our fingers and put droplets of blood on some kind of sheet with different chemicals that would clump the blood, or not.

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1st Grade: Ms. Abolt.
2nd: Mrs. Wirtz.
3rd: Mrs. Jones.
4th: Mrs. Tyson.
5th: Miss Smith.
6th: Mr. Bierbaum.

yup

I recently named my 1962-63 grade 3 classmates in surname alphabetical order. There were only 18 of them though.

1st grade - Mrs. Morgan
2nd grade - none, I skipped that grade
3rd - Mrs. Clopper (the JFK assassination grade)
4th - Miss Morrison
5th - Mrs. Sand
6th - Mother Mary Perpetua (notice the change of venue?)
7th - Mother Mary Michelle
8th - Sister Mary Perpetua (they demoted all the nuns. I guess)

1.Miss Metro
2.Miss Metro
3.Mrs. Smith
4.Mrs. Smith
5.Mr. Lash
6. Miss Ramser
7. Mr Baker
8. Mrs. Donley

The first 4 years we were in a 4 room school had the same teacher two years.

K: Sister Mary deChanel
1: Sister Mary Eileen
2: Mrs. Sullivan
3: Sister Mary Francis
4: Sister Mary Christine
5: Mrs. Howell
6: Sister Mary Catherine
7: Sister Mary Janice
8: Sister Mary George (if you survived Sister Mary Janice)

My 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Buck. I particularly remember a beautiful crown pin she wore a lot.

I also remember her because my family moved in the middle of that school year and so she was the last teacher I had in Evanston, Ill.

I remember her very fondly. We learned cursive writing that year.

1- Jenkins
2- Stallings
3- Weaver
4- Hollis (JFK assassinated)
5- Coulter with student teacher Ms Nau 😍
6- Starrit

on to jr hi to homeroom with 1 teacher and different instructors for each period,
same for hi school ...

✌🏼

1. Mrs. Hamilton -- learned Pledge of Alllegiance
2. Mrs. Parham -- re-learned the Pledge with added words
3. Mrs. Dighton
4. Mrs. Thiebault
5. Mrs. Moran
6. Mrs. Campbell

Just added the bit about the pledge for a time reference; to this day, I still trip it up.


.

1 - Boycourt (got pregnant)
2 - Schnell
3 - Richards
4 - Aboushi (got pregnant)
5 - Adler
6 - Weiss (got pregnant)

7 and 8 were multple teachers.

2nd Grade. Fortman, 3rd Grade. Rogers, 4th Grade. Wright (remembered for a reason that I won't mention here,) 5th Grade, Black, and 6th Grade. Forman. Except for Miss Wright, I detested them all. They were scum.

Wolf

5th Grade Mr. Stevens
6th Grade Mr. Ellis (his aunt wrote the well known Florida classic The Yearling)
7th Grade Mrs Powell (who’s reading aloud to the class was extraordinary)
8th grade was high school

Miss LaRue
Mrs Ferguson

Sr Norine Joseph
Sr Alipia
Sr Rochelle Marie
Sr Rose Madeline
Sr Therese Margaurite
Sr Annunciata
Mr Davis
Sr. Joseph Helene

Catholic school, back when only nuns taught. Jo

Might take a minute.


Nope.

1. Sister Mariella
2. Sister Isabelle Mary
3. Mrs. Zapell
4. Sister Constanza (Died), Mrs. Devers
5. Mr. Obiso, Mr. Sweeney
6. Sister Vera Mary
7. Mr. Murphy
8. Sister Michael Archangel

1st---Mrs Clinton
2nd--Mrs Kennedy
3rd, 4th--Mrs/Miss James
5th---MissTotten
6th--changed schools
Science--Mrs Morgan
Art--Miss Edward's
Speech--Miss Whiteley
Music--Mrs Nash
PE--forgotten
Principal--Mr Schuhmacher

I only had to remember teachers from the 70’s.

Also it had a different schoolday than most grade schools---half-day with grade teacher, other half split between specialty teachers

Also K-3 had annual Jack o'lantern decorating contest, annual Easter egg decorating contest. Annual floral arranging contest for whole school, divided by age and category.

The teachers were generally smarter in junior high and high school, at least for me. (My high school was rated one of the best public schools in Ohio back in those days.)

Looking back on it now, my elementary school teachers definitely didn’t do a poor job either. They just didn’t know as much about science as I would’ve preferred. (I still remember being annoyed when an elementary school teacher confidently explained to the class why the sky was blue, but she was wrong.)

My older siblings were surprised that it wasn’t covered.

It might’ve been helpful for various scientific names, I think.

I guess cursive writing isn’t taught much anymore, but I have to admit that I rarely use it.

I still remember the repetitive practice involved in learning cursive in 4th grade!

My poor cursive writing caused some embarrassment for me... my parents were contacted by the 3rd grade teacher about it. (Gasp!)

My mother loved to write long letters in cursive, so she was especially upset about it. She made me practice every day after school until my cursive was among the most legible in the class.

Now? Horrible again unless I do it slowly.

1st half of the year in the school I moved to and the 2nd half of the year in my old school. We moved in February so I never really learned cursive, that is my excuse and I am sticking to it.

Mr. Griffith, in 7th grade. A good fellow, but he lost control of the class a few times, most notably on a three day field trip to Dearborn Michigan --- the school was told no one from it would be welcome there in future, and I had a horrible run of finding someone with four of a kind when raising on a full house. Quarters added up back then, and mattered.

There was Miss Valentine, a music teacher, but of course a name like that sticks in the mind, and she had other memorable attributes as well.

And Sister Mary Anthony, in 3rd grade. I owe her a good deal. The class was two-thirds 4th graders and one third 3rd graders. I finished classwork with much time to spare, and soon she hit on giving me the 4th grade work after that, to keep me quiet in my seat. I sort of hydroplaned on that for the rest of my time in schools....

And we moved several times when I was growing up, so I went to different schools for a lot of grades, two schools for 4th, and I went to boarding school for my last two years of high school. The longest I stayed in the same school was 4 years of college.

Kindergarten: Mrs. Page, Mrs. Curtis and Miss Roo (student teacher, my favorite and also my babysitter)

1st: Mrs. Suter

2nd: Mrs. Price (her last year before retirement, she was also the principal and got some of her students mixed up with their parents who she also taught!)

3rd: Mrs. Keogh

4th: Mrs. Duprey and Mrs. Stephenson (2 schools)

5th: Mrs. McMullen

6th: Mr. Webb

7th: Miss Hauerwas
Mrs. Hennessey
Mr. Farra
Mrs. Furman
Mr. Millis/Mrs. Thomas (he became principal when the principal retired)

8th: Mrs. Noonan
Mr. Mansfield
Mr. Hinkley
Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Tibbets
(We also had a French teacher in 7th and 8th grade, but I don't remember her name since we called her Madame )

The people who greatly touch your life never leave your memory.

Seems like several of my high school teachers died at a fairly young age - the rumor was asbestos.

I will never forget her bursting into tears when the principal came into the room and whispered into her ear that President Kennedy had died.

I don't even think she was my teacher, but was monitoring the cafeteria and became angry I wouldn't eat the congealed mystery meat with some foul-smelling lumpy gravy over equally lumpy potato bits (?) when I was in first grade.

She kept me in there alone for two hours demanding I eat it--which I never did, of course, because the longer I sat there the more nauseated I became. I can still almost smell the foul-smelling mess. I don't know what she thought she was proving but I don't think my Mom ever made me buy school lunch again and my PB/jelly or cheese sandwiches and apples got me through.

remember the names of the two districts worth of teachers I have to support.

Oaks
Palma, an opposite end of the street neighbor

K - Miss Arcuri
1 - don’t remember her name she was a nun, sisters of providence.
2 - Mrs Herbert
3 - Mrs Bridgewaters
4 - Sister Rose Irene
5 - Mr Stark
6 - different teacher for each subject
7 - Miss Kennedy and Miss Fulkerson
8 - Miss Kennedy and Miss Fulkerson

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So only had 6 elementary school teachers

1..Mrs Calkins
2..Mrs Geiger
3..Mrs O'Connell
4..?? Had two. One went on pregnancy leave half way through. Can't remember her name or the name of person who replaced her.
5..Mrs MacKenzie
6..Mrs Yeager

Principle..Mr Leonard

Miss Yoshikawa, first grade
Mrs. Rundle, second
Mrs. Jones, third
Miss(?) Combs, fourth (I want to say Miss, but I remember her husband the artist came and helped decorate when we were learning about the Amazon)
how funny, I am blanking on 6th (who was also 8th) and she was the one who never learned to pronounce MY name
blanking on 7th as well, remember the science teacher Mr. Markakis who had a temper and would throw things like erasers at people and broke yardsticks slamming them on the desk. LOL he was actually a good teacher otherwise. just a lot of asshole adolescents in that class.

She lived up to the name.

-- Mal

... and yeah, everybody feared her, including the administration.

Of course, to children she looked like an ancient battleaxe, but seen in our class photo for that year, she was probably only 40-ish. She was a good teacher, though, and tough as nails.

-- Mal

Junior High and high school, had different teachers for different subjects, would have to think about 'em, but could probly recall them with an effort. College, no problem.

1. Mrs. Torgeson
2. Mrs. Larson
3. Miss Lange
4. Mrs. Staldamin
5. Mrs. Johnstone
6. Mr. Markestrom
7. Mrs. Stidham
8. Mrs. Sobeck

Kindergarten - Don't remember
1st - Miss Taylor
2nd - Mrs. Giaccobbe
3rd - Mrs. Kettenhoffen
4th - Mr. Hosp (ugh!)
5th - Mr. Bruce "Something" can't remember his last name, but I can picture his face.

Then in Middle School we had different teachers for different classes.

Mrs Garigan - you’d be fired in this day and age for hitting Debbie over the head with that book

Miss Kriebel - you I remember because you gave me an F when I did my spelling in cursive before we learned cursive

Mrs Reese - good teacher

Mrs. Shank - the best

Mrs Plush - also good

Mrs McNally - if you weren’t kind of mean you would have been a decent teacher

kindergarten Sister Grace
1st grade - Sister Mary Concepta
2nd grade -Mrs Lewis (we moved and I now went to a regular public school)
3rd grade -Mrs DeLong
4th grade -Mrs Collinsworth
5th grade -Mrs Michaels
6th grade -Mrs Greene

8th grade started junior high, and so I had five or six teachers at that point. Most of them were wonderful.

I had the good fortune to attend school in the 1950s and first half of the 60s. Back then women faced nearly insurmountable discrimination and so had almost no job/career opportunities. Teaching, nursing, or secretarial. That was it for the vast majority of women at the time. So I was taught by women who a couple of decades later would become lawyers or airline pilots or taken a job they could get with an MBA. This is NOT to disparage current teachers, but to acknowledge what I benefitted from.

Kindergarten - Mrs. Cunninigham and Mrs.Altman
1st grade - Mrs. Altman again
2nd grade - Miss Hunt
3rd grade - Mrs. Pettey (she was really pretty)
4th - Mrs. Nagel
5th - the dreaded Miss Lennon. She was the one everyone was scared of, but turned out to be toughest and the sweetest
6th - Mr. Solomon

7th and 9th - were in Junior High School and I don't remember ANY of my teachers. Skippped 8th because of NYC SP program

...elementary school had the same name - Sister Mary Godzilla.

There were 50 kids to a class and the nuns were very stern and didn’t take any crap.

Coffield
Foster
Sutherland
Taylor
? (Italian guy who always let me get out of class. I'm stumped)
Haselmo

7th and 8th I had a bunch of teachers. Remember a few names.

I moved every year, so no teachers had a reputation etc.

I remember my sister's 6th grade teacher, even though I was in 8th. They even sung songs about her. She had quite the reputation for being mean. But this was after my dad left the military and we settled in a small town.

The majority.
But, I went to a very large parochial school, and from 4th grade on, we had more than one teacher per day.
Grade 1 & 2 were nuns. I remember Sister Kenneth as 2nd grade, but don't recall 1st grade nun's name.
3rd grade yes.
4th grade I remember 2.
5th grade yes
6th grade sort of. The science teacher had a breakdown and was replaced. I remember him, but not the lady's name who replaced him.
6-8 I don't recall who taught English all 3 of those years. I remember the nun from 7/8.
The rest yes.
High school, no problem.
Undergrad, no problem.
But, graduate schools, maybe half. The Chen profs are clearly remember were stars! Brilliant, and good at teaching.
Of course in MBA school, most of them were eminently forgettable!

Viveen, Riekels, Stanley, Krug, Johnson, Ternan.

1 Mrs Price
2. Miss Walker
3. Mrs Campbell
4. Mrs Markham
5. Mrs Johnson **
6. Mrs Kemp
7. Mrs Brown **
8. Mrs Flowers.

** my favorites of all. I don't know about the rest of them but Mrs Brown and Mrs Flowers were HardCore Democrats and members of huge Democratic families. Some of their descendants are as well.

In my middle of nowhere country school, there were 55 kids in my first grade class. One Teacher. No teacher's aide. Mrs Price was about a million years old and she ran that room with an iron fist. After the first week, she sent all the ones who could already read and put us at the library table. We were our own reading group, but our lessons were shorter which was fine because we all wanted to go back to the book table and read something besides "Dick and Jane" anyway .

Oh yeah, out of that group of 55 only 15 graduated in 1966. Some moved away, some were held back, some quit school, one died in 5th grade,

K - Miss Smidderks
1b - Mrs. Pieri
1a - Miss Hirco (became Mrs. Perry)
2b - Miss Shelton
2a - Miss Land
3b - Mrs. Anderson
3a - Mr. Potter
4 - Miss Graham (became Mrs. Waggoner)
5 - Mrs. Uchida
6 - Miss Christy
Principal - Miss Lowe (became Mrs. Meili)

Joyner, Wilson, Blair, Merchant, Cooper, Singleton in that order. This was in Memphis and only the fourth, fifth and sixth-grade classrooms were airconditioned. The first couple of months were killers. We did, however, have the best cafeteria ever. Everything was homemade. The bread and buns were to die for. You could smell the bread baking all morning. There was only one entree and it always tasted delicious because you were ravenous by lunchtime. The cost was $0.25 or $0.30 if you got milk.

a few I really loved and felt loved back. There were plenty that scared me most of the time.

New Jersey
K: Miss McCowitt
1: Mrs. Bennett
2. Ms. Wynn
3. Mrs. Rink (She hit a student in the stomach to try to make him stop hiccupping, and I think she was replaced at some point).
4. Ms. Elster, replaced by Mr. Verba due to medical reasons (IIRC)

Northern California

5. Ms. Spencer (who read "Where the Red Fern Grows" aloud to us)
6. Mr. Joliffe

In middle school we moved from class to class seven times a day. I remember many but not all of the teachers.

I went to a small neighborhood school in the 1950s and early 60s.
K- Miss Clark
1-Miss Park
2- Mrs. Benschoff
3- Can’t remember
4- Mrs. Miller (she was crazy)
5- Miss Karalfa
6- There were four teachers, I remember Miss Lear, Mrs. Livingston, and Mrs. McManus. (We changed classes.)
I went to junior high in grade 7. I only remember a few of those teachers.

1st - Mrs. Cline
2nd - Mrs. Chamberlain
3rd - Mrs. Bacon
4th - Mrs. Allegro
5th - Mrs. Upright
6th - Mrs. Tabb

...After that, I went to Junior High, where I had a lot of teachers, the names of whom I can't recall.

grade 1: Mrs. Yablonski
grade 2: Mrs. Newcomb
grade 3: Mrs. Johnson
grade 4: Mrs. Bockus
grade 5: Mrs. Trifilo
grade 6: Mr. Gallant


Back then in this school district you went from grade 6 to junior high (which was in the same building as the high school). I think in

grade 7: Mrs. Dubina
grade 8: Mr. Muther (pronounced with a long "u&quot

"Miss" Spoon - 1st
2nd grade?
Miss Green - 3rd
Miss Paye (witch) - 4th & 5th
6th? I remember her face tho.
Miss Weatherford - 7th & 8th

Beginning 69yrs ago.

In Kindergarten and 1st grade, the original teachers got sick and were replaced. In 7th and 8th grade, I was in Jr. High, different building and we moved to different rooms for each class. I probably had 5 or 6 teachers for each of those years.

K-can't recall, but the second teacher said "Land's Sake" a lot.
1st- Miss Brown
2nd-Miss Smith
3rd-virden (psycho)
4th-Mrs. Steck
5th-Mrs. Urban
6th-Mrs. Babich

7th-
8th-Homeroom, Mrs. Burke