In my youth I attended Percy I. Bugbee Normal School, which
from 1933 to 1975 operated as a training school for student teachers at SUNY
Oneonta. The building is still standing where it’s been since the 1890’s. A few
faculty members there left big impressions. We had an art teacher who wouldn’t
let his children own toy guns. Our history teacher reminisced about landing on
Utah Beach on D-Day. The science teacher made us all want to grow up to be
meteorologists. The home economics teacher taught us to loathe everything about
her subject. And we had a librarian with a thick Long Island accent who kept us
all enthralled at story time. One of the books she read to us was Roald Dahl’s
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We were so excited to hear it would soon
become a movie, and so disappointed to find the film – as fantastic as it was –
couldn’t hold a candle to our imaginations.
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