1967-8 Mrs. Dow in Middle-Beside her brown plaid dress(Cathy Nelson)Back to in blue is Ann Woodbury, Short blonde hair in front is Debra Crabtree, Diane Rogers behind Debra wearing white sweater, Laurie Berry with ponytail beside Mrs. Dow, Me with rust dress, Roxanne Carrier with red, white, blue coat, Mrs. Woodbury wearing light blue sweater to left Little girl far right is a shirelle girl I think, May be Mrs. Nickerson in the front with Yellow? Behind me may be Diane White.
     
Mrs.Dow taught second grade at Redbank School, and I was just one of her many classmates over the years. Only recently, I heard she was still around, so I decided to write her a note. I told her of my many memories in her classroom, specifically a lesson I learned when I forgot to put my name on a paper, which happened to be a test. I learned a good lesson that day, because when 2 of us argued over which paper was our own, she did the right thing. She threw both papers in the trash. From then on, my name was always on the paper. I also included this picture for her. I told her that I started this whole Redbank thing and it just snowballed. I also told her how others from all over the country are contributing memories and pictures and it is a nice testament to our village. I also asked if she would like to share some of her memories.
 I received a lovely response within a week from her assistant. Mrs. Dow is in her nineties now and in quite excellent health, with the exception of some eyesight problems. In fact, after she received the letter, she and her assistant took a ride out to Redbank to rekindle some memories. Her assistant relayed that Mrs. Dow got quite a chuckle from my story of the paper with no name. They both thought the Redbank Blogs; all of them were wonderful ideas. Her assistant said that after so many years it would not be possible to share any of her memories. She said that she will always remember her years at Redbank and that she loved all of us kids. She was grateful we shared our village news with her. She also sends her best wishes to all of us and her love for life to all who knew her. I thought you would all appreciate her message.