Walter as an eight-year-old third grader (he had begun first grade at 5 years of age) at graduation from the Child’s Garden of Learning in 1955 with his favorite teacher Mrs. Spense. Because Mrs. Mitchell recognized that I could speak louder than anyone else in third grade, I had the honor of introducing the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony. His mother, then Marjorie Watkins, had attended the same school in the late 1920s when it was run by Mrs. Eva Chisholm, who died in 1931. Subsequently, Genevieve Mitchell was headmistress until the school closed in 1974.