I had two favorite teachers at the high school.  One was Miss Perry; she taught advanced math class my senior year. The class was composed of mostly males, who may not have appreciated her teaching style, but I thought she was inspiring to the females in the class. She showed that a mathematics class didn't have to be taught by a male teacher. She had a habit of tossing the chalk into the air and cathching it.

The other memorable teacher was a young Latin teacher - fresh out of college. His name escapes me and I don't have my HS book available at the moment. He made the Latin class fun and blushed quite easily when the girls teased him.  Roz Tabachnik would remember his name!!  He was our Latin teacher for 2 -maybe even 3 years.

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The handsome young Latin teacher was Mr. Frederick H. Nidzgorski.  No, I wasn't in his classes, I had French two years and Portuguese (I wanted to maintain the formal language) for two years.  But, oh Lord, who can forget all the girls looking his way when Mr. Nidzgorski walked in the halls!  Oh, how our young hearts beat wildly!  There he is in the yearbook between Mrs. Paul and Miss Andrade, who was a pioneer in making Portuguese studies happen in America.  She's featured on many internet websites.  On another topic, my husband switched careers from engineering to teaching math and it's a pleasure to report that more girls take Pre-Calculus than boys, but the AP Calculus classes are just about even with boys and girls, so you wouldn't be in the minority now.  In that aspect, these are the good old days, right?

The Latin teacher at Keith Jr High who blushed was Mr. Christian.  Mrs. Fogarty who had been there for many years moved up to the high school . A funny old guy, Mr Gaugen, took Mrs. Fogarty's place at Keith, but he only lasted a few weeks  He seemed a little disoriented.  Mr Christian replaced him. .  He was a recent Harvard graduate--can you imagine he must have been abut 21.  We must have been quite a handful. AS I remembr, he blushed most when  certain girls giggled. Mrs. Fogarty  taught us in our sophomore and junior years. I remember her correcting me every time I read a passsage and said "maGna" ( think the east Boston "a" here).  She wanted "mahg-na."  One day in frustration she said to me , you don't say "dAnce" do you?  I replied .. I don't say "dahh-ns" either.  There was a gasp from the back of the room, and a long silence. She just continued on as if nothing had happened. and never brought it up again.  Mr. Nigorski, our teacher senior year was "dreamy", I don't know how we got anything done in class.  As I remember,  one of the three passages on the Latin SAT that winter was one from the Aenead that we had studied that very week!!  A number of us scored in the high 700s, and it made him look like he'd been doing a fantastic job.  I don't think anyone let it be known that we knew one of the three passages practically by heart.