Tapping the memory resources of Mrs. Peterson’s classrooms

BY EILEEN BRADY
​THE NEWS JOURNAL OF WILMINGTON, OHIO

As the second world war raged in far-flung places, Virgene Webb quietly began making her mark on public education in a small school in western Clinton County. 
She carefully entered the names of her first students into her grade book, in beautiful, teacherly cursive: Lorraine Baker, Ruth Esther Bloom, Shirley Bloom, Donald Brewington, Richard Butts ... John Shinkle, Betty Stingley.
Miss Webb started teaching in the basement of Kingman School in Chester Township, in time working her way up to a top-floor classroom with windows. 
That was 1943. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president. Classrooms were filled with female teachers because

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