“She broke all of our hearts though when she got engaged to a Zoomie officer.”
Same with us (except I doubt the guy was a pilot!) - broke our hearts. She was young, cute, skinny, blond hair. A few years ago my older brother told the story of how my dad mentioned a cute teacher at one of my school open houses after getting back from it - suggesting that brother somehow date her. “Oh - I bet it was Miss. Sullivan from 4th grade!”
When she told everyone she was getting married, all of us boys were heart broken. I remember Neil Bremer laying on the ground and pounding his fists and crying! (Okay - even in the 4th grade I thought that was a little weird!)
She invited us all to the wedding, but I didn’t go. It was probably over the summer and I was gone most summers.
It was over five decades ago so I don’t know if my memory of him was from a pic or in person. I think she did bring him to class one day. I think us guys assumed he was a pilot because of his snappy blue uniform ... and because we wanted to. He may have been but I can’t trust that 5th grade memory.
We were envious as heck, he took our sweetheart of a teacher and he was a handsome USAF officer. At the same time we thought it was pretty cool, they were a couple to be envied, at least to our young minds. I hope they had a good life!