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Senior Senior
A Tribute to Mrs. Tiger
by Sarabeth Evans
The label “Senior enough years to be retired long before,
Citizen” doesn’t but it wasn’t about the salary to her.
do justice to Coming to school every day was about
the plethora of seeing the children she loved, teaching
phenomenal the language she had mastered, and
titles I could give enhancing the lives of those around her.
Cynthia Tiger.
I can call her an I want Mrs. Tiger to know the extent to
educator, a mentor which she has contributed to my life.
and an advocate. When I thought about possible careers
She has inspired I might choose, I would ask myself if I
me since I was 10 would love anything as much as Mrs.
years old. I didn’t Tiger loved teaching. I would wonder if I
know it then, but could love coming into work every single
when I walked day for fifty-five years. When I finally
into my fifth grade found something that fit that description,
classroom, I met I knew I could commit my life to it.
the woman who
proved to me Mrs. Tiger ruled her classroom with
that no matter what you do in life, you a firm hand and a gentle heart. A day
need to center yourself around love and didn’t go by that she did not refer to all
happiness. of her students as her “angel babies.”
We, her students, all understood that we
Mrs. Tiger taught me during her were not to test the rules. At the same
forty-ninth year of teaching. She loved time, we knew that we could always
teaching with her every fiber, and it was have fun and enjoy our work and time at
apparent in the way she spoke to us, school. Structure became an important
her students. Mrs. Tiger made sure to lesson we had to learn, and I use those
make us feel that everything that was lessons to this day. So much of what I
happening in our little 10-year-old lives learned from Mrs. Tiger I utilize on a
mattered to her. She was, and still is, like daily basis.
a grandmother to all of her students.
She retired this past school year after I was a very shy child. I moved to
teaching for fifty-five years. Lubbock at the age of eight and took
awhile to warm up to people my age.
Every day when she would walk into There has not been a single moment in
work, Mrs. Tiger proved to me the power my life, though, that I have been around
of loving what you do. She had worked Cynthia Tiger and felt shy. She has a way
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