There are many people who may influence us in life but the teachers that we have in school are probably near the top of the list. After all, we typically spend at least one year with those teachers and we are with them five days a week, every week during the school year. They can impact our lives in many different ways and we might not even recognize how much of an impact they had until we are much older. Some of them may impact our lives to the positive and others to the negative but we tend to remember both.
Something interesting about teachers is the fact that we usually remember them, their names and the interactions that we had with them for many years. I’ve even known people in their 90s who can remember the names of teachers they had when they were in grade school. This can either be because the teacher was a good influence or a bad influence but I’m sure that they remember them with at least a little fondness in either case. At times, teachers may even go above and beyond and we would have difficulty forgetting them, even if we tried.
It was back in the 1940s when Lorly Schik began her career as a schoolteacher. She worked for the Perham school district in Minnesota and it seems that everyone who had her as a teacher loved her. Many of the other teachers that worked in the school district at the same time also had those positive feelings about her.
Even though she retired from teaching in 1989, she still remembers the students who shared the classroom with her. When celebrating her retirement with her husband, he died unexpectedly while they were traveling. She found herself a widow at the age of 90, living in a much different world. That is when she decided to reach out to someone after seeing him as a news anchor on the local TV station. You can watch the reunion for yourself in the following video:
