Former area teacher has sweet memories
With the holiday season comes all the festivities, holiday cards and outfits! Each day of this beautiful time of year, I bring out my saved sweaters, sweatshirts, jewelry and socks. Each and every one of these precious items has been a gift to me when I was a teacher, from a classroom of children who anxiously awaited the opening of my gift each year.
Some of the sweatshirts display a class picture of that year's students. One has high fives with each student's name within the hand and the 1999 sweatshirt has all the 6th graders' signatures, as well as the teachers, as they left Hale School to head for junior high.
What a joy it has been to bring out these special holiday creations each year and reflect back to Jonas Salk School in Rolling Meadows, Gray M. Sanborn in Palatine, Douglas MacArthur School in Hoffman Estates, and lastly Nathan Hale School in Schaumburg!
A few of my former students and/or parents have kept in touch over the years since I “graduated” into retirement and moved to Estes Park, Colo.
Since that move in 2000, I spent the first five years volunteering in a third grade classroom. When the teacher of that classroom moved to another position outside Estes Park, I moved to a volunteer position at Estes Park Medical Center.
While I love every minute working in a hospital setting, I still picture myself in a school classroom back in Illinois! My wish is to touch base with as many of those special students and their families as I can.
Happy holidays, and thanks for all the memories!
Marilyn (Johnson) Vergoth
“Mrs. V”
Estes Park, Colo.