Patricia Shahamiri:  

I still treasure my years at Girls' Latin. I was a B'see. Wasn't that a defining acronym? I remember our first week at school not understanding why other girls kept calling us new girls B'sees. What a rough time that first month was! I learned so much, not just by subject, but work habits, study methods, and the hard and immediate consequences of not thoroughly learning a homework assignment when facing the morning quiz....oh, those terrible, gut-wrenching moments, praying that I got at least 60% of the Latin vocabulary correct, gender,case, declension, or conjugation. I did not succeed in graduating with my class, as I left the city at the end of 11th grade, but I stayed close to class members of 4B2 senior year. I graduated from Newton High School but my heart wasn't in it; I felt like a stranger there. At Latin School, I couldn't walk in the corridor without people calling out to me. Sixies scampering up and down the iron staircases would recognize me from the Student Council and yell out as I passed. We used to wonder that more of them didn't fall and seriously injure themselves to see them dash about trying to get to class on time wearing fearful faces as they scurried. I marri...Expand for more