In Memory

Myra Schwerdt (Teacher)

July 8, 1920 - August 31, 2000 in Jacksonville, FL



 
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08/26/22 01:52 PM #1    

Janet Lynne Gable (Cull)

Mrs. Schwerdt was one of a few teachers I would have liked to contact some years after high school, but I waited too long. I had little interest in learning when I was in her class, but she saw something in me that I didn't see in myself. She tried so hard to encourage me to apply myself more than I did. (I've thought I probably started school about three years too early. 🙄) 

 
I always remembered her kindness and effort to bring out the best in me, and I wanted to tell her so. As an adult, I've realized what a very fine teacher she was!

08/27/22 09:07 AM #2    

Shelley Maxine Davis (Smith)

Like you Janet, Mrs. Schwerdt  would be the only teacher at Wolfson  I would have liked too have said, "Thank you." She was dynamic, strong in her teaching methods, and she could deduce individual abilities from her students. She was tough, iron fisted, with a German twinkle in her eye, showing you she cared for your education.   It is sad that many teachers at Wolfson were mostly Wannabes.  Their goal was to fit in with their academically smart  students, which in tern would build up their own egos, sad, but so true.  

Her creative writing assignments were where the metal hit the road. It was the pen to paper of words where she learned who you were as a student.  Mrs. Schwertz would teach correct pronouns, a higher level of vocabulary usuage , without red marks to crucified your writings.

PS- a real turn off was sentence diagramming. Again thank you for moving far beyond drudgery into the world of creativity... where students express real and not so real stories.  

 


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