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Longtime Elementary Educator Chosen For Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame

WKU

A Muhlenberg County woman, whose teaching career spanned more than a half-century, has been selected for induction into the Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame. 

Mary Armstrong remembers taking her first teaching job in 1940.  

“You know I loved every child that I ever had,” said Armstrong.  “My first school was in a two-room school house in Marshall County.  I had [grades] 5-8 and another teacher had 1-4. And, I loved children.”

She then taught 6th grade social studies at Bremen Elementary from 1953 until her retirement in 1999. She says she never stopped thinking about her students, even when she was on vacation.

“In all my traveling, I would take pictures and films and develop them and use them. Like I went to Israel, I had pictures of Israel and I used those when we studied that,” said Armstrong.

Armstrong earned her degree from WKU in 1958.
A special ceremony for the 2015 inductees is scheduled for February in Frankfort.  It’s the eighth class of inductees since the Hall of Fame was created in 2000 thanks to a gift from former Gov. Louie B. Nunn.