[Vision2020] Teacher, 94, retires after 63-year career

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (March 2, 2013) SpokesmanReview.

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Teacher, 94, retires after 63-year career
Los Angeles – Rose Gilbert wanted to be a schoolteacher since she was in the first grade and was inspired by the teacher who taught her to read and write.

Gilbert carried out that childhood dream with a rare commitment – she retired last week at the age of 94 after a 63-year teaching career in the Los Angeles School District.

“I’m going to be 95. I looked in the mirror and said, ‘I better do it now before I get too old,’ ” she joked. “I didn’t want to leave, but I didn’t want to be carried out on a stretcher.”

It’s unclear if Gilbert is the oldest fulltime classroom teacher among the nation’s teaching corps of more than 3 million, but she certainly ranks among the most senior. She started teaching in the 1940s, took a break and then returned to the classroom in 1956.

In 1961, she joined the staff at the brand new high school opening in the well-heeled Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles and remained there until Feb. 22, passing along her passion for poetry and literature to generations of students.

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Tom Hansen
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