Helen LAWSON

Mrs. Lawson was my third grade teacher at my then-new school, Demmitt Elementary. I arrived from out of state not knowing how to write cursive that my new classmates had already learned the previous year. Mrs. Lawson made it her mission to very quickly get me up to speed; I spent hours at home with her self-devised cursive practice workbooks. Mrs. Lawson would write out a "sampler" of sorts in her own gorgeous, perfect (aspirational) script and assign me to copy using her examples. I´d...