Bertha Luce, Winter, 1952, Purchase Street School
(This story originally appeared in Good Old Days, April 1974. I thought you might like to revisit one of my favorite teachers, Miss Bertha Luce. I have rewritten the story to fit this space better.)
As our little ones go back to school, I invite you to reminisce about the days when you yourself started a new school year with a new teacher and maybe some new friends and even a new school. My fifth grade was spent at Purchase Street School, a school I had never attended before. They stuck a bunch of us fifth graders there that year. Our teacher was Miss Bertha Luce, and what a teacher she was. Hang onto your seats as I present Bertha “Paul Revere” Luce.
“Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…”
