High school years remembered
Our colleague, reporter Mary Gail Hare, wrote an op ed piece this week about her 45th high school reunion from the Institute for Notre Dame, an all-girls school that has educated many Baltimore women.
The response from readers surprised her. She got more than 50 e-mails in one day, which just goes to show how powerful a time in our lives high school is and that our memories of those times survive whether we like them or not. In this case, most of those who wrote to Hare had happy memories.
Here's one of the comments:
"I graduated from that wonderful institution 64 years ago! Yes, it will always be a thrill to return to that warm, inviting, challenging building, remembering the special nuns who taught us. Aren't we lucky that IND is still viable and that we can still visit there. I did have to smile when you wrote that in 'your day' the tuition was $200 a year. When I graduated, the tuition was $60 a year, and my mother went to work so my family could afford to send me to the 'Institute.' I worked in the summer to pay for my organ lessons there, which also cost $60 a year. My how times have changed."
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