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Duggin and her mother at Commencement, Edgewood College 1971.
She went from standing in a small one-room school in the 1950’s, to standing FALL.16//EDGEWOOD COLLEGE MAGAZINE
with some of the most influential people in the United States.
Thelma Duggin ‘71 pinches herself as she reflects on her life.
She went from standing in a small one-room school in the 1950’s, to standing with some of the most influential people in the United States. Thelma Duggin ‘71 pinches herself as she reflects on her life. Her story begins in Mon Luis Island, Alabama where she attended a one-room school through sixth grade. Duggin’s mother was her first grade teacher. “She expected more of me than anybody else in class,” she recalled. In seventh grade, it was time to attend the ‘big city school’ in Mobile. Duggin vividly remembers the day she learned she needed glasses. “My teacher told me eyes checked because my poor grades that previous years, were
to have my she thought year, unlike due to not