Heather Sanderson:
CLASS OF 1977
Tucker High SchoolClass of 1977
Tucker, GA
Berwick High SchoolClass of 1977
Berwick, LA
Brockett Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Tucker, GA
Smoke Rise Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Stone mountain, GA
Bayou Vista Elementary SchoolClass of 1970
Morgan city, LA
Heather's Story
Life has taken me on some adventures since high school. Since then I have lived in Seven states, including Hawaii. I have two children, a daughter and son and two grandchildren. I just had birthday Five-O. My now picture was taken in March 2009 and the then picture was taken in 1974, when I was 15. The pictures in my album were taken in February and March of 2009.
In high school I tended to get lost in the crowd. I was outgoing, but tended to stay to myself. I know, it's a contrast, but I did. If I knew you, mostly I wouldn't have been shy around you, but if I didn't, I would have been more reserved.
If you were in class with me, you would remember me as one of the persons always raising my hand, often with very profound teenaged observations. My teachers loved me.
I heard some people thought I was stuck up. I was never stuck up, though I didn't hold the football & cheerleading programs in awe like many kids did. I didn't aspire to be one of the popular kids. I already saw through that false concept of importance. Having been popular when I lived in Bayou Vista and Brockett, but not at Smokerise, made me very aware of how fleeting popularity could be.
I was an artsy, intellectual kid. I was in the excelerated Science and English classes. I wasn't really what most people would expect the brainy kids to be like. I looked and acted like a normal, cool/hip kid, but was actually one of the top in grades, though Math was a challenge for me.
Teachers who stand out to me were: Miss Krauss, Mrs. Louviere both from Bayou Vista Elementary in Morgan City, LA. Mrs. Millhollan at Brockett in Tucker, Ga. Mrs. Peery and Mrs. Ginn at Smokerise Elementary in Stone Mountain, GA. Mrs. Penny Stovall Georgia History at Tucker High School. I don't recall the English teacher at Tucker's name, but she loved my speeches & had other teachers come to listen to them. Mrs. Ott at Dekalb Open Campus.
Thank you, Mrs. Millhollan for taking such an interest in me all year. Thank you, Mrs. Stovall for your attention & the amazing trip you took us on to NC, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
My favorite teacher was at Bayou Vista Elemetary school. She taught 4 TH grade and her name was Mrs. Louviere. She was just magical. Full of energy and sparkle. Beautiful. You name it, she could do it. She was fun. She was firm, but ...Expand for more
she brought out the good in every student. She was good to me and took special interest in me. I was friends with her daughter Carmen, so I was able to spend the night at her house more than once. She was a fantastic mother.
Mrs. L. used to read Uncle Remus to us & use the dialect. I remember her dressing up like a Witch & singing on the hay ride for Fall Carnival at school. Another time she made 1915 types bathing suits for all the lady teachers and an a leopard skin, over one shoulder one for Mr. Landry, which they wore in the dunking machine for the spring carnival.
She & Mr. Landry brought us to Baton Rouge for a field trip that was to this day one of the fondest, coolest experiences of my life. She also took her girl scout troop to New Orleans to the French Quarter. I was not in her troop, but she saved me a seat on the bus & let me & some other girls go. It was the second most amazing field trip I took. We got to go the Cathedral on Jackson Square & get real hippy's autographs in the square. That was 1969.
Mrs. Louviere, where ever you are, you have added richly to my life. I will always be grateful to you.
I also thank my Morgan City, LA dance teacher Mrs. Irma Cooper. Thank you for some of the best memories of my life & showing me such love & confidence. You wrote to me after I moved to Georgia. You showed me empathy when some of the girls bullied me. That Little Jazz Bird solo & recital was one of my shining moments.
Then there is Dee Mooney from Tucker's Dee-Mar Dance Studio. Thank you for giving me the honor of helping with teaching the two younger classes & showing such kindness when I fell so ill at the recital at Symphony Hall. Thank you for letting us watch the Broadway's Tommy cast practice at our studio. Thank you also for bringing in the principal ballerina for the Atlanta ballet to teach our advanced class once per month. Thank you also for not caving into pressure during that 1972 recital from mean parents & bringing in the male professional dancer from the Atlanta Ballet to dance the part of the prince in the Sleeping Beauty ballet we performed. Thank you for dancing the part of the Lilac Fairy when Johnny couldn't do it because of the big fiasco. I will never understand why those people did that to you, but you handled it like such the southern lady that you were.
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