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Cynthia Macdonald
October 9, 2008
I fondly remember Miss Ryan. As formidable as she might have been, she was always very kind to me. She passed by my home on her commute to Newton High School, and if she saw me walking she'd always offer me a ride. Miss Ryan was a wonderful drama teacher, as well as a compassionate administrator. I can still remember being sent to her office for wearing SLACKS to school on a snowy day (obviously prior to the change in dress code). She looked at me ruefully and told me that she couldn't let me return to class in slacks, so she had me borrow a knee length coat from another student and go to class wearing a coat and tights, but no pants! It was also forbidden, at the time, to wear coats in class, and I spent the rest of the day in fear that someone would demand I take my coat off!
My sincere condolences to Miss Ryan's loved ones.
Cynthia (Nasrallah) Macdonald, NHS '70
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