MEMORY OF MISS MAY WILL LONG REMAIN (50 YEARS AGO)

Thursday, April 15, 1948; page 4

Editorial reprinted from The Southeast Missourian.

While the end has come, as it must come to all, the impress that Miss May Greene left upon Cape Girardeau and upon those with whom she came into contact in the school room will live much longer. That is true of those who serve others as did Miss May; hers was a full life devoted to seeing that the better things it has in store comes to all.

A teacher in our schools for 53 years before her retirement a few years back, Miss May Greene enjoyed the esteem and the friendship of all. In the span of her teaching career she taught children and in turn their children, imparting to them the ideals she held and giving them the basic teachings that in later life were to help make many of them successful.

Not one, but many business and professional men of today can trace the beginning of their careers to the teachings of this fine woman and if it were possible to bring them together they would in a great outpouring of personal feeling pay a great tribute to her.

Miss May never forgot any of her pupils and it is equally true that none of them ever has forgotten her and although she may be gone her memory with them will live forever.

Miss May Greene leaves a great heritage: a heritage of friendship, of esteem and of service. To those in our schools she will ever remain a constant example of what the great teaching profession means and to the rest of us she will be remembered as one of the great citizens of our community, who in her quiet way has written indelibly a record that will live always.