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Memorable Teachers and Staff Members
Hartford Public Schools - Hartford Michigan

Alleyne Markillie Myers - 63 years of service

Photo from 1941 HHS yearbook

Alleyne Markillie

Photo from
HHS 1942 yearbook

Alleyne married
Charles Norman Myers HHS 1939

A 1936 graduate of Hartford High School, Alleyne Markillie began her career at the old high school in the fall after graduation. Her first duty was as secretary to Superintendent Berton W. Robinson. She supported many others during her 42 years as Superintendent Secretary.

Dedicated, faithful in attendance, she had a gentle spirit and soft-spoken voice that greeted many students. Her appearance was always neat, well-kept, and she never had a hair out of place.

She didn't drive, but walked to and from school every day - winter, spring, and summer .... through the snow, wind, rain.

After 22 more years in the business office as Bookkeeper, Mrs. Myers retired in October 1999.

The most popular section of this website is the HHS graduate database. The graduate names were derived from her organized records. Many aspects of the History of Hartford would be lost without her diligent recordkeeping.

Thank you for your dedicated service to the staff and students of Hartford High School from 1936-1999.

Alleyne Markillie Myers

Alleyne Markillie Myers - Hartford Public Schools, Hartford Michigan
Photo from HHS 2000 yearbook

Mildred Toogood

Mildred Toogood - English Teacher - Hartford High School

Mildred A. Toogood, graduated, I believe, in 1922 (note: the HHS grad database shows 1915. She is in the 1922 all-high school photo). She was my high school English teacher in the mid-forties - a fearsome, loved educator. When I went to Michigan State University after graduating, my English professor asked if I had gone to Lansing Eastern High School, I asked him why he asked. His reply was that my English usage was excellent, and that I must have had Miss Toogood. I still have the term paper I wrote for her. She was an institution there, and is remembered at many of our reunions. I'm surprised I don't see more about her on the internet.

This photograph is from The Lantern, 1944 Eastern High School Senior Yearbook.

The Dedication, which is not clear in the photograph, reads:

"To Miss Mildred Toogood, tolerant and congenial tutor of Advanced Composition, energetic and forceful head of the exceedingly progressive English Department, a lady endowed with an enlightened mind whose precepts stimulate a genuine desire for knowledge, we, the staff, dedicate this 1944 Lantern."

Charles K. Stuart
Worcester, Massachusetts
September, 2006

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