Teachers and Teaching (SC 3477)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3477. Letter, postmarked 31 October 1933, from S. I. to her friend Annie Laurie. Both women have connections to Bowling Green, Kentucky, but S.I. is currently teaching in a one-room schoolhouse at a location she references as Sassafras Bushes. She laments her routine existence, the trials of teaching 28 students with dispositions from bland to ferocious and intelligence from imbecility to genius, and their brilliant answers on a recent test. She refers to some of her and Annie\u27s mutual friends and expresses her intention to attend Western (WKU) the following semester