Mary Ellen Golich

My BFF Linda (Lindy) Stegall Weigel shared almost everything, including love for two French teachers at North Springs High School in Sandy Springs GA (north of Atlanta). Mary Ellen Golich and Sallie Purvis were kindred spirits with each other and with us. Far beyond the bounds of any reasonable expectation of any teacher, Mary Elleln and Sallie offered to take us on a senioir-year road trip to Daytona Beach for spring break. Being with them, treating us as if we were adults, was a heavenly...

Before Mary Ellen (Miss Golich to me) was beloved at Homewood-Flossmore HS, she was likewise beloved at North Springs High School in Sandy Springs, Georgia in the mid-to-late sixties. That may have been her first job after earning her MAT at Emory. She and her French-teaching colleague, Sallie Purvis, were my favorite high school teachers. Both exuded warmth, wit, generosity, intelligence and joie de vivre. Both my BFF, Linda/Lindy Lee Stegall Weigel, and I adored them. Ironically, we...