In the spring of 1939 she was in her second successful year as a leader with progressive ideas already supporting a young social studies teacher keen on bringing "visual education" into Chancellor's classrooms and now she couldn't help but envision herself bereft of all that had been achieved by her becoming a wife and a mother on Summit Avenue.

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