Atlanta Woman’s Club honors McGee

The January meeting of the Atlanta Woman’s Club was held at The Wesley House, where the club honored one of its associate members, Louise McGee.  
Mrs. McGee was honored recently on her 102nd birthday, but the focus of this meeting was to recognize Mrs. McGee for her long years of teaching in Atlanta.  
The group reminisced about Mrs. McGee’s love for teaching plays from Mexico.  
If you were a student in Mrs. McGee’s fourth-grade class in 1970 at Atlanta Primary School, your assignment was to write a Mexican play called “A Day in School in Mexico.” 
Reading parts were assigned and a poem, “El Perro Y El Gato” was read by a student.  Of course, the folkloric Mexican Hat Dance was the most exciting part of the performance for the children.  Mrs. McGee stated that “the children made up their own dance steps to the  music.”  Parents became involved by creating Mexican costumes for the children to wear, and Mrs. McGee always wore her Mexican blouse and long skirt.  
The classroom mothers prepared a Mexican meal for the children to enjoy after the play.  
One special treat was that Superintendent George Haggard and Principal David Kennedy always supported the children by attending Mrs. McGee’s plays each year.  
“Teaching was fun back then,” Mrs. McGee told the group.  The time spent with Mrs. McGee was a reminder of the “old days” when teachers had time in their classrooms to teach the cultures and heritage of other countries without the stress of modern day testing.