When a then teenage Leola Agatha Marslow née Wilson began to teach, very much intending to use the experience as a stepping stone to some other profession, she could not have imagined that 42 years later she would be retiring from a fulfilling career as an educator.
“At every school I taught or headed there is something I worked on that would remind some students about me,” Marslow, 62, now a retired headmistress told Stabroek Weekend
Marslow, who comes from Bethany Village on the Arahouria Creek, a tributary of the Supenaam River in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), retired in 2014 with no regrets about joining one of the noblest professions. She was just 16 then. At 15 years, she was successful at the College of Preceptors examinations at then Bethany Seventh Day Adventist School. It marked the end of her primary education. “I wanted to become a journalist but my dad said he did not like journalism for me. He wanted me to do nursing which I didn’t want to do.”
