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Miami Made It Happen By Tom Romano ’71 MEd ’75
When the girl I would marry learned I was studying to be an English teacher, she was eager to introduce me to her aunt. Born in 1900, Aunt Mary taught public school children in Ohio for 35 years, earning a master’s degree during summers. She retired and moved 800 miles to Minnesota to teach English 10 more years in a private school for girls. When I was introduced to Aunt Mary, I thought, “You’ll never catch me teaching that long.”