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Tamara Scarlett (Scarlett-Lyon)
I'm with you, Leslie, on being struck by how little i knew or appreciated my fellow classmates at the time.I, too, wish I had taken more initiative in getting to see and know people in a fuller and deeper way. In any case, it's a pleasure to get little glimpses now into who we have become.
I continue to enjoy this site a lot too, but feel the one thing missing is to be able to hear about and interact with our teachers. I assume some of them may have died by now, and many moved on, but if anyone has a way of inviting them to join us here I hope you will do so.
I agree with those of you who write with appreciation for the ways our teachers worked with us to learn to write. What a gift. I have told this story elsewhere, but in 10th grade I had Ms Funk for English and we had to do a creative writing assignment and i felt pretty good about the first draft i turned in. Well, Funk returned it to me covered with red corrections and criticisms and i was momentarily crushed but I worked hard on a 2nd draft. When she returned that draft, it too, was covered with red comments and i literally sat at my desk teary eyed because i thought i had done well and clearly she wanted me to do better. I did finally get an A on my final draft, but to this day when i am working on writing projects and feel i am done i always give it another once over making it better rather than settling for something mediocre.
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