Mrs. Metzgar Retires After 30 Years;
Has Taagtit Most Of Time In Kodiak
Teaching soihoo! over a spat of
thhly years is the achievement of
Mrs. Betty Metxgar who will re
tire at the end of this school tent.
For mom of those years Mrs.
Mstzsar has taught it Alaska. She
first came to this vast land in 1836,
whet she moved to l naiaska,
where she taught for two years. In
13S8 she came to Kodiak where she
fete remained until now with the
acaaption of a couple of years
teaching on tme mainland. She has
taught third grade mainly, and part
of the time first grade. Her pri
mary* interest in her early teaching
day’s was that of native children,
but now, she says, there are fewer
of them, and all children have been
her concern
At Unalaska Mrs Mexzgar said
the children were sometime*
poorly fed. poorly boused, poorly
clothed—but always happy, polite
and fond of teacher and school
‘Tnalaska was a village then of
about 400 residents. There was an
abundance of fisc just beyond the
front yard of each home." Fish
caught by the fishermen was
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shared by all just ior the taking
... In winter the men climbed
aboard company ships bound for
the Pribiiofs for the summer seal
skin harvest
Her salary in 1936 was S120 a
month. The teachers paid their own
boat fares, bought all their groc
eries by mail order, and anxiously
awaited the arrival of Christmas
gifts and trees < which sometimes
didn’t arrive on time).
Ages of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th
grade children ranged from nine
to fifteen years She remembers
one pupil who left the first grade
to get married and set up house
keeping!
She has been happy in her wort
Mrs Metzgar stated. “You don’t
teach for thirty years unless you
enjoy it.*’ Prior to coining to
Alaska, she taught for nine years
in north Idaho near Sandpomt.
Teaching here in Alaska and in
other states has taught her that
children are the same everywhere
“There’s so much good in all of
them You can’t help but wratcb
children as they grow up and take
their place in the community. I’ve
seen so many of them, though they
didn’t achieve any great financial
success, the}* did become good
fathers and mothers and establish
good homes. That alone is making
a success of your life,’ she said
The retiring teacher has seen the
great progress of the Kodiak school
system over the years “There were
only nine teachers here when I
first came, and now there are forty
five.’’ She remarked on the physical
plant of the present school, which
she said was “splendid.”
Pupils Mrs Metzgar remembers
being in her 1938 class here in Ko
diak included Harold Heglin. Bill
Anderson. Milton Pagano and
Martha Fadaoff
Mrs. Metzgar had followed ama
teur radio work, which was par
ticularly helpful when at Unalaska
Her next door neighbor there was
Mr and Mrs. John Fletcher,
owners of the Orpheum Theatre
here, who were interested in ama
teur radio work. Another of her
hobbies was photography.
The retiring teacher has always
been an outdoor enthusiast. During
her years in Idaho she hunted deer,
hiked into seldom-reached moun
tain areas, spent days camping out.
She has had a life-long love for
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As to future plans, Mrs Metzgar,
and her husband. Jack, who is sup
erintendent of the Oty Dock, plan
a trip to the East Coast in Septem
ber They plan to spend some time
in New York and other cities in the
East before returning to Kodiak.
A reception will be held for the
retiring teacher in the Kodiak higt<
school cafeteria. Sunday, April 30
from 2 p m to 5 p m. Sponsoring
groups are the P. T. A.. Kodiak Ed
ucation Association, and the Ko
diak School Board. The public is
invited.
Meeting Of ACCA
Set For May 10
A report on what has been ac
complished will be presented to the
members present at a meeting
May 10, of the Kodiak Chapter of
the .Alaska Crippled Children As
sociation. by the president. Mrs.
Gretchen Saupe.
Plans for the future will be dis
cussed and voted on. All members
will be contacted and are urged to
attend
MRS. BETTY METZ GAR
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