Retirement’s Comic Relief: Teachers shape lives
Once again excitement and uncertainty are in the air as area schools resume classes. Will old friends be back? What will teachers be like? Where will new rooms be found and what will new subject matter involve? As teachers prepare, an element that might not be top of mind is what impact their work will have on students’ lives and those with whom they come into contact decades later. On April 14, 1866, a notable educator, Johanna Mansfield Sullivan, was born in Massachusetts to immigrants who had fled Ireland’s Great Famine. At age five Johanna suffered an eye infection that led to ...
