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Lead image Teacher retires after 52 years of sharing her most important lesson

The sign on her classroom door—“This is my happy place”—and the way she smiles at it reveal so much about Mary Pickerrell. For 52 years, she has been teaching at St. Anthony of Padua School in Clarksville—the school where she spent the first eight years of her education as a child, the school where she views every child she has taught as a gift in her life. “Every day has been a pleasure,” says Pickerrell, who has taught first grade for most of her career. “If you love your job as much as I do, you really don’t have a job to work at. It’s just a place to go to love kids. And I love these kids.”
 

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