A young teacher, a camera, and a life change

Most of Mrs. Yorozu’s fifth-grade Maple School class in 1957 –– photo by the author

This evening a grade school classmate of mine arranged a Zoom reunion call. Thirteen of the eighty-five of us who graduated from Maple School have signed up for the call. A good turnout considering our graduation was in 1958. We’re all in our seventies, and seventeen of us are dead.

My first memory of those days was of getting to school early when the ground was freezing and sections of…