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- Priya RamanFormer student
I still have the copy of A Wrinkle in Time she gave me in the fifth grade. Her handwriting is inside the cover.
- Hal BennettFairview Elementary
Taught alongside her for twelve years. Never met anyone better at the job.
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- Marcus L.Former student
Mrs. Whitfield kept me after class in 1979 to tell me I was a writer. I have been one ever since. I don't think she ever knew what that afternoon did.
- Delia OkaforNeighbour
Forty years of borrowed sugar and unsolicited gardening advice, all of it correct. The street is quieter without her.
- Rev. Thomas GradyRockcliff Methodist
Second alto, forty-one years, never once late. The choir sang her favourite hymn at the service and got through about half of it.