Everyone today is Halloween. Where we live in Pacifica we probably get 2-3 "trick or treaters." I think back to Halloween of 1960. I was in 6th grade. My teacher was this short and stocky woman named Mrs. Margaret Hall. She was and is one of the most wonderful positive influences in my life. Aside from being a great teacher and a great person, her biggest claim to fame was that the movie actress Martha Hyer had been one of her students. Mrs. Hall set very high standards for conduct and academic performance. She had not patience with lazy and unproductive people.If a student was observed not working, she would write them up for being "idle." She would repeatedly remind us that the proper way to pronounce Halloween was Halla'en. I still remember her and that odd pronunciation of Halloween 54 years later. Those of you out there who are teachers, please note, if you are good your students will remember you and love you decades later.
Life takes us in many strange directions and wonderful discoveries. It never turns out the way we thought it would.
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