{"id":8962,"date":"2012-05-30T04:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2012-05-30T04:14:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:14:20","slug":"riverdale-teacher-retires-after-42-year-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/riverdale-teacher-retires-after-42-year-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverdale Teacher Retires <BR>After 42 year Of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8963\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mary-hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8963\" title=\"mary hill\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mary-hill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mary Hill is looking forward to the next chapter of her life. But parting is a sweet sorrow when looking back on an English teaching career at Riverdale High School that spans more than four decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s really hit me quite yet,\u201d Mary Hill said, tallying the scores on the very last papers of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, who is retiring, was one of the founding teachers of Riverdale High School \u2013 one of two who still remained on staff since the school opened its doors in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Riverdale Principal Gerald Demming said that not seeing Hill\u2019s face next year will be somewhat surreal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe just has this energy that is contagious,\u201d Demming said. \u201cShe\u2019s been a mentor to many teachers here, and she just has this motor that doesn\u2019t stop. Not having her here is going to be a huge loss, and we\u2019re just really going to miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1986 Teacher of the Year and International Baccalaureate instructor was last year awarded the district English teachers\u2019 Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Hill is looking forward to the next chapter of her life. But parting is a sweet sorrow when looking back on an English teaching career at Riverdale High School&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}