Mrs. Uva Mays, Orangeville, retired last week at the close of school, after having taught for 31 years. Mrs. Mays attended Green County Teachers College two years and received her Bachelor's degree at Wisconsin State University, Platteville. She also had 22 hours toward her Master's degree. She taught four years in Green County and the past 27 years in the Orangeville School District, including Mount Pleasant School, Brush Creek School and the junior high school in Orangeville. Mrs. Mays says teaching is much harder work in this day and age than when she first started teaching.

Her future plans are indefinite, but she enjoys reading and traveling. She would also like to start taking ceramics, and her daughter, Mrs. Darwin (Darlene) Morhardt of Lanark, has promised to teach her to knit. Mrs. Mays also has three grandsons. The Orangeville Education Association presented her with a sterling on crystal bud vase. The last day of school, the women faculty members and office personnel held a coffee and gave her a cosmetic case and a necklace.
Contributed by Karen Fyock - 1971 clipping