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“We used to have federation meetings with other homemakers groups,” she said of past events now stricken from the contract due to time conflicts, lack of participation and funding.
In 1967, Mrs. Wood took a leave of absence to raise her son, H.B. Wood, now 23 years old.
“I saw probably the greatest change just in the five years I was gone,” she said.
“In 1961 parents taught children to have a more definite sense of values,” she said, adding in those days “values were in black and white.”
‘Today, it’s all grey,” she said.
She returned to her classroom in 1971. Skirts were shorter, business was in and boys were a possibility for home economics.
“It wasn’t hard to teach the boys,” she said with a smile.
“You just start at the beginning and work your way up,” she said, adding many times the “boys were more eager to learn.”
“I don’t think you can really say it’s easier to teach one or the other,” she said of boys and girls.
“It all depends on how much they want to learn,” she said.
She remembers the happy times — times when a student mistook the salt for the sugar and the kids’ faces turned sour when eating their first homecooked meal, or times when more seams were ripped than sewed.
She remembers the sad times.
“It’s sad when children share their feelings or their ill health,” she said with saddness. “It’s sad when they discuss which parent they will spend their weekend or holiday with.”
As a teacher for many years, she
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