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Nona Berray has been a part of Arbor Vitae-Woodruff School all her life — as a student in her childhood and then for 32 years as a teacher. In 1954, as a student, she was part of an effort to raise 1 million pennies to help build what later became the Lakeland Memorial Hospital. As a teacher in 1969, she helped build this monument, honoring that accomplishment, on the school grounds. Today, as a retired teacher, Nona continues to regularly substitute teach in the district. And she recently led the successful campaign to pass a referendum to construct a new school building. "They told me that if I, of all people, could say goodbye to the old school, then it was all right for them to do the same," she said. - Photo by Bill Hurley
Posted November 20, 1996