A Fifty-Year Reunion

By Joe Rector

In 1970, I graduated from Karns High School. Four years later, I received a B.S. degree from my favorite university, Tennessee Tech. Those who are trained in the simple mathematical operations can quickly see that both of these graduations occurred over 50 years ago.

My teaching career began in 1974 when Mildred Doyle saved me and offered me a job at Doyle High School for the coming year. This job materialized only a few days before the school year was to begin, and I’ve always been thankful for the ways things turned out.

A few years into my career, I realized that living on a teacher’s salary would put a financial strain on my family, so I left the teaching ranks in February and began a job as a fundraiser who recruited schools to use subscriptions

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