WHO WAS YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER? HOW DID THAT TEACHER INFLUENCE YOUR LIFE?
My favorite teacher was Della Bagley, Mom's aunt. She taught me 3rd & 4th grades. She taught me to love reading. And probably had more influence on me to go into teaching as a profession than anyone else. I couldn't imagine being a teacher but after taking classes for civil engineering I changed to political science-- why! I don't know, but that lasted only one semester then I changed to accounting but I don't think that even lasted a semester then changed to psychology. I liked that and stuck with it. I don't know why before I graduated I began to wonder what do you do with psychology? Go on to become a psychiatrist or teach it. I applied for a teacher in Heber City so we drove up. They hired me on the spot so we moved to Heber. I taught there at the Jr High and drove down to BYU and finished my masters. In 1971 Wayne was born. Then in 1977 I started having seizures at night so I quit teaching and we moved to Koosharem then we went down to California to look for a job. We lived with June and Chad and checked all the districts but no luck. Then we decided to move home we stopped in Cedar and while on the CSU campus I ran into Garth Bagley he was my bishop in Koosharem. He was attending a workshop for teachers in Special Ed and he convinced me to take the classes after finishing I decided to go to BYU for a masters. This is when that above happened in 1978 I started teaching at Salina Elementary it was a good [He didn't finish this one and I'm a little confused on the order of events.]
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