Morgan County R II Schools - Mirror Yearbook (Versailles, MO)

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Bliss Helen Hass Her voice is gone from the halls. Loud. Exuberant. Happy. Sometimes stern, disapproving. Always sincere, earnest, deeply interested. Gone from the halls? Just a few days ago her class finished the Constitu- tion. Never she had complained, Never has there been a class like this. Not once, not twice, but three times, four times I've given this test to you. Over and over and over - her voice boomed out of Room 1. Study! Study! You won't go to high schoo 1 unless you pass. And you will pass. Don't ever forget that. You will study until you do. and later she stood at my desk. Beaming. Proud as a mother. Proud as a teacher. They passed. Every one of them. Put it on their records. One more class - a good class. Gone from the halls? There on the shelf is the overhead projector. How many times it was used to make posters. The many posters that came out of Miss Bass's class. Nursery Rhymes, stories, - Rumpelstiltsken - Bambi - The 3 Pigs. They brightened walls and cheered hearts from Kindergarten to grades, from office to Head Start. It was nothing, she said. The kids did it. They love it. It's goodforthem ■ doing something for others. Gone from the halls? Oh no. There is the bulletin board in the downstairs hall. The one that holds the daily menu, What's for Dinner? It needs fixing, Someone said. I'll doit, she said. There she was, with several of her students. A paper plate , a cup, a flower here and there. Beautiful! And so it could go on and on. Her thoughtfulness. Her cheer. Her caring. Gone from the halls? Not really. Her memory lingers on in the halls, in the classrooms, and in the hearts of all of us. Mrs. Winifred Lutman