Maercker school - horace mason recollections
"The first teacher I'm sure was Miss Murphy. I can't say if she was there the next year. 3rd grade was in Chicago, living on Ada Street. Norm was there and we three went to school on Lake Street. I don't know if we went to Maercker that spring. I am not sure of the sequence of the teachers. I think, Miss handy. There was a young girl who had troubles. Boots Klein sat in front of me then; she was standing in the aisle, hearing another class, beside Klein with a switch in her hand. Boots opened his book to a picture of cow and burro. The title of the story was Cow and Ass. He showed it to me and said Ass. Ha. Ha. Ha. She hit him across the nose and took a good piece of skin off his cheek.
"Soon after she became ill and her sister came to substitute. She was still in high school. Her discipline was better. The Soper boy, a big boy seated in one of the larger seats at the back of the room, hit me on the head as I went by, with a big history book. She dashed down the [aisle] to where he had just sat down, grabbed the book and bounced it off his head several times. She had no trouble again."
- Horace Mason (1977)
"Soon after she became ill and her sister came to substitute. She was still in high school. Her discipline was better. The Soper boy, a big boy seated in one of the larger seats at the back of the room, hit me on the head as I went by, with a big history book. She dashed down the [aisle] to where he had just sat down, grabbed the book and bounced it off his head several times. She had no trouble again."
- Horace Mason (1977)