“While our friends were playing house, we were playing school.” - Ginger Augustinack Megan Christenson and student Adylin Luginbill read a book on the floor in Christenson’s classroom at Riverside Elementary.
the head of a one-room schoolhouse in the early 1940s. “The kids pumped water and I cut the firewood for the classroom,” Bahr says. “Dad was courting Mom,” Augustinack chimes in, “so he cut firewood on weekends and brought it to her classroom.” A small smile creeps across Bahr’s face. “That’s right,” she says. The community school, Esden, where Bahr taught, was situated halfway between Brainerd and Garrison. Kids attending kindergarten through eighth grade were taught by Bahr. “Except for seventh grade,” Bahr points out. “We didn’t have a seventh grader.” After a
brief stint teaching fourth grade in Aitkin, Bahr got married and began raising three of her five kids before returning to teaching and entering the Brainerd School District in 1956. She taught fourth grade at Baxter Elementary until her retirement in 1980. Augustinack, a graduate of Brainerd High School, attended Concordia College in Moorhead intending to earn her elementary education degree. When her advisor recognized her exceptional skills with numbers, he encouraged her to become a high school math teacher, a decision she says served her well. “Math came easy to me,” Augustinack
says. “I loved it when I saw that same appreciation for numbers in one of my students.” Following college, Augustinack taught across the state in Cambridge, Circle Pines and Pine River before returning to Brainerd in 1999, where she taught math at the high school until her retirement last June. Christenson, also a Brainerd High School graduate, earned her teaching degree from her grandmother’s alma mater, St. Cloud State University. She launched her career teaching fifth grade in Menahga between Wadena and Park Rapids. She began teaching
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