Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Long-Timers In The News Over 60 years, teacher a study in nurturing Tribune
Shirley Shechtman, 83, a special education teacher at Hibbard Elementary School, reads with her class. Shechtman works a six-hour school day at Hibbard, plus teaches three days a week in the Albany Park school's afterschool program.

Put black studies in schools Tribune
By incorporating "Negro Achievements" into classroom curriculum, Madeline Stratton Morris in 1941 introduced African-American studies in the Chicago Public Schools.

Nun served Babe Ruth at youth home Sun Times
Sister Bertille -- who served throughout the Midwest as a cook, teacher, seamstress, nurse, lab technician and hospital administrator during her nearly 80 years as a Franciscan nun -- died Dec. 22 in Lemont. She was 92.