"Now, I know I'm supposed to offer some kind of parting wisdom. So I thought back to my own graduation. And I tried to remember the advice my graduation speaker gave to me. But I couldn't recall who gave that speech at the University of Texas [at Austin] back in 1973. And maybe that's because I skipped the ceremony. But I did look it up, and I found out who gave that address. And you can imagine my surprise when I discovered it was some guy named George Bush. Four years after that speech I married his son. We never know where life is going to take us."
You could say the same for the country, Laura.
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LAUSD teacher
Rose Gilbert, 88, has no intention of slowing down.
Fun fact:
Rose Gilbert is 88. With the retirement last year of a 93-year-old health teacher in Sylmar, Gilbert became the oldest full-time teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District, apparently the oldest in California and one of the oldest in the nation. She has taught for more than 50 years — first at University High School in West Los Angeles and then at Palisades Charter High School in Pacific Palisades, from its opening day in 1961.
As for me, I wish I had gotten into the field back in the 1970s by finishing up my degree at Southern Oregon University, and then I would have qualified for retirement from this school district two years ago.
It's a pisser because there are a lot of other things I want to do.
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Speaking of older teachers, Olivia Neubauer is even older than Rose Gilbert.
She is 95 years old. She teaches at a private school in the Chicago area.
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Thanks to climate change, migratory birds are getting fouled up on their flight patterns.
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Women who can't imagine life without children are willing to do anything to become mothers, no matter what the cost, the risk, or the ethics.
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Texas once again has a big scandal.
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