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education."
merged with the less affluent Royal
Added Goff, "I think we produced
Oak Township.
one of the top groups of students in
"There was a camaraderie and
the metro area over that 20-year peri-
closeness in the Oak Park schools not
od. We were crazy. We dared to chal-
duplicated in every workplace. In the
lenge the students and we were
1960s, it was a privilege to be hired
allowed to innovate. We had great
there," said Beverly Stone, who met
support from the parents and adminis-
her husband Howard when both were
tration."
teaching in Oak Park.
Thelma Rosenbaum, a retired
"Those were wonderful years," said
English teacher, said not a day goes by
Marty Hollander, former principal of
that she doesn't encounter a former
Clinton Junior High. "It was a very
student.
proactive community when it came to
"The other night I
called to make a pledge
to Channel 56 and the
woman answering said,
`Oh, my son had your"
Another retired
English teacher, Shirlee
Citron, said she "gets a
lot of pleasure" from
finding out about the
successes of her old
charges. "Those stu-
dents were highly moti-
vated, college bound
and liked to read," she
said. "It was a good
time to be teaching."
"The Oak Park
teachers were truly a
family," said retired spe-
cial education teacher
Betty Silverman. "We
cared for the students
and each other." ❑
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