Letter to the Editor - Naber an example of what rural teachers should be

Dear editor:

I was very pleased with Ila McClenahan’s interesting account of her teachers at the one-room elementary schools across north-central Montana. She was a student at Staton Coulee School while I was a student at rural Burnham School during my lower elementary grades. Donna Van Wechel and Esther Naber were both teachers at the school I attended during different years.  Both were life-long friends. While I didn’t have Mrs. Van Wechel for a teacher, one of my lower elementary level teachers was Esther Naber.

Just as the McClenahan column notes, Mrs. Naber created a fascinati...