Quite the birthday surprise for an 80-yr-old!!
By Wendy
@jerzgirl (9327)
United States
December 3, 2008 2:19am CST
This guy got the birthday card of a lifetime! No, not from President Bush or Willard Scott. He got a birthday card from his 3rd grade teacher!!!! Can you believe it!! 
Check it out - it's a neat story! 
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/84-12022008-1630461.html
What are the odds, really!?? Isn't that pretty neat? Do you have any elementary teachers you would love to hear from again? I do, but I know they've passed. One I visited while she was in a retirement center and the other passed while I was living out west. She lived down the street from my grandmother. My 4th grade Science teacher is still alive and well, but she's in NM while I'm here in NJ. So, who would you love to hear from again out of the blue? Would you even like that they remembered you?
Check it out - it's a neat story!
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/84-12022008-1630461.html
What are the odds, really!?? Isn't that pretty neat? Do you have any elementary teachers you would love to hear from again? I do, but I know they've passed. One I visited while she was in a retirement center and the other passed while I was living out west. She lived down the street from my grandmother. My 4th grade Science teacher is still alive and well, but she's in NM while I'm here in NJ. So, who would you love to hear from again out of the blue? Would you even like that they remembered you?3 people like this
10 responses
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
3 Dec 08
Wow!! What a great thing you shared! What a surprise from his teacher. I really appreciate her gesture of sending him the card. What a amazing bond of love!
This leaves me with a great happy feeling, thanks you shared.
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@miraclefreebies (3043)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I'm still fairly young, so it's most likely my teachers are still living. I never thought about it until now. That's great. hmmm
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@deedeehall (1144)
• United States
4 Dec 08
this is the greatest thing i have heard in a long time what a great teacher?
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@AmbiePam (94117)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I'm 27 years old, and every Christmas I get a card and letter from my kindergarten teacher. And I know I'm not the only former student she still writes too. To top it all off, I still live in Oklahoma, while she moved to Oregon years ago. And yet she still keeps in touch. I really love that woman. She is special.
@redkathy (3374)
• United States
4 Dec 08
Really cool story. I would love to hear from my high school chemistry teacher. It's kind of hard for me because I moved away from my hometown in my early twenties and more than that many years have passed since then. I did hear from a friend on my birthday who I hadn't spoken to for thirty years. That was really a birthday surprise.
@fasttalker (2796)
• United States
3 Dec 08
Wow now that is interesting! Thanks for sharing. I've always found it kind of neat that my history teacher came when I was a junior in high school and I have put two kids through that same school and yep they have had him too! My youngest graduates this year and at a senior night last week we all had our picture taken together and they posted it on the school bulletin board and put a caption that says Mr Royse just keeps going and going!LOL
@Elvali (68)
• China
4 Dec 08
Well,it's good to know this guy got a very meanful present for his birthday and this is his lifetime gift from his elementary teacher.I think that's the biggest compliment for him.Fortunately,almost all my elementary teachers are still work in the primary school where I've studied.I used to visit them and just found that they had nothing changed except looked older.They still had a good quality of health and were in good spirits.And I liked my Chinese teacher very much,she always looked pretty and had a mild temper.I saw her son when I visited her.And afterwards,I just found she had moved to another place where I didn't know,because I lost her phone number.So now,I really want to hear from her again out of blue someday.
@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
3 Dec 08
That is awesome. I would love to hear from my teacher I had in the 1st and 2nd grade, she was a really nice and fun teacher but I have no idea if she is even alive any longer. Then I had a choir teacher in elementary school and her daughter and I were friends, I spent some weekends at their house. When my youngest daughter was in elementary school and she was having one of her choir Christmas programs I saw my friend there, her daughter is the same age as my daughter, and her mother was with her so I got to see her after all these years. I have seen my friend several times since then and I did find out that my old choir teacher is in a home with alzheimer's now so there is no way she would remember any of us now but I still remember her.
@miraclefreebies (3043)
• United States
3 Dec 08
That would be nice and a total shock to receive a card, email, fax or anything at all from any of my elementary school teachers.
I had 2 favorite elementary school teachers. My second grade teacher and my fifth grade teacher, I was actually one of their favorite students. I really looked up to them. I'll be amazed to even receive a smile from them.
@summersatine (85)
•
4 Dec 08
its really a great surprised that after all these years she could still remember her students.. what a memory!! me, i could not even recall my classmates, well of course-to those few who are we actively connect through the years- but some we might forget the names..i recognized faces!
@alyssakenzie (462)
• United States
4 Dec 08
That is truly amazing that she remembered him after 70 years. My first grade teacher also taught my mom when she was in school. She retired after the year I was in her class but I still hear from her every once in awhile and it is always great when I do. She is the one teacher that motivated me the most and left a lasting impression on my life. However there are a few teachers that I would be shocked if they ever got ahold of me somehow or even remembered my name.
