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Cleo Rollins
In Memory of
Cleo Prudence
Rollins (Bartlett)
1924 - 2017
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A Very Special Teacher

Mrs. Rollins was a very special person and an extraordinary teacher.  I have many wonderful memories of my fifth grade year (which was 40 years ago).  She would take the class outside in the afternoon to the back of the grade school.  We would play in the little side yard and she would play her autoharp.  I loved listening to her sing and play.  I think I must have filed at least 100 books on the little card in the rolodex she kept on her desk.  I loved the way she published the little stories the students wrote in the class news letter.  I still have a copy where one of my stories was featured.  I also have the wooden game she made for each of the kids in the class for Christmas.

I remember how excited I would get when she came over to my house to work with my mom and the other mothers on the school patrol Christmas Wreaths made from the plastic wrings that once held coke cans.  There may even be some spray paint stains left in her barn.  I was always given the honor of making her “coffee” which did not include coffee grounds just hot water.

I learned more than just academics in her classroom.  She taught us respect, compassion and all of the characteristics of a truly good human being.  I don’t ever remember her rising her voice or being unkind.  She never embarrassed or discouraged any of her students.  When I was over zealous on my report on Mercury and kept writing after writing about the planet and went into mercury in a thermometer.  She let me finish my report and never said a word.  She never called attention to my mistake and I don’t even think the other kids noticed what I had done.  Shoot, I didn’t even realize until later.  She and Mom had a good laugh over that.  These are the qualities I hope that I exhibit to my students.  I have often thought about all of the teachers I had during school.  I try daily to put the qualities of those wonderful teachers into my teaching.

As an adult I would run into her at the store or as she was encouraging people with her music at the hospital.  She remembered who I was and we would always have a great conversation.  She was a beautiful person inside and out. 

 

Lou Ann Nicholas

Posted by Lou Ann Nicholas
Friday July 21, 2017 at 6:18 pm
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