Text of Williams correspondence

Description: Forwarded correspondence from Sue Vinton [school board member] to school superintendent Eileen Johnson message originally sent by Marjorie Williams June 23, 2008.

June 23, 2008

From (forwarded): Sue Vinton

Marjorie Williams

Subject: Lockwood

To: Eileen Johnson

Hi,

I was just looking up material for my blog on education and I came across the Lockwood website. I grew up in Lockwood. My father, Ben Fulton designed the original water system in Lockwood, and was on the school board when Mr. Klampe was superintendent. My mother, Betty Fulton started the first Brownie and Girl Scout Troop, and she is still alive at 91.

My brothers, Ed and Bob Fulton also went to Lockwood schools. Ed, a radiologist in Salt Lake City, went to the old Pinehill school before the elementary school was built. He and his friend Marty Johnson were three years ahead of me. Marty went to West Point and spent time in Vietnam and retired recently from being president of a junior college in California after teaching physics on a college level, for many years.

I just retired from a 30-year teaching career. I went on for a B.A. in psychology at Keuka College, Keuka Park New York, got a secondary teaching license at the University of Redlands, Redlands California, and an M.A. in history at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. I just wanted to say to those who have worked at Lockwood in the past and continue in the future, how much I loved going to school there and how excellent the education was... Even back in the 50’s.

The music teacher was Mr. Story who started me on a clarinet career which gave me a wonderful group of friends in the band at Billings Senior High. I think about what a wonderful program of musical appreciation he provided. There was Miss Winters, a wonderful PE teacher, and Mr. Allred, the science teacher, Mr. Lundgren and Mr. Leone, principles and dear Mrs. Mondt my English and art teacher.

I have pictures of my first and second grade classes at Lockwood Elementary. We kept in touch with Mrs. Beckert my third grade teacher, after she retired and moved to California. Anyway, continued success for a wonderful School District that as all childhood memories lingers large and loving in my present. My husband, Dr. Todd Williams and I retired in 2007 to enjoy our lake place and a grandchild. A comic note... I live in Lake Elmo, Minnesota. I hated the name for years because Lake Elmo in Montana was a mud hole, but after going back to reunion and finding that it is now a park, I have learned to at least be okay with the name. This name came from a wife of a vice president of the Great Northern Railroad, who was reading St. Elmo's Fire, on a trip through the region and somehow got them to rename the lake here to Lake Elmo. I often wondered if there is a connection to Lake Elmo out of Billings.

Sincerely,

Marjorie Fulton Williams