Lulu "Lou" Thatcher
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 6 August 1903, page 5
TEACHERS MEETING-The Campbell County Teachers Association will convene at Alexandria next Monday and will continue in session until Friday, inclusive. Thursday, Aug 13-"Language Work" Miss Lou Thatcher.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 16 August 1905, page 2
INSTITUTE-The Campbell County Teachers Institute, the second day session of which was held yesterday at Alexandria, is growing in interest, over 100 teachers from all parts of the county being enrolled. Following is the program arranged for today: "Writing" Miss Lou Thatcher.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 8 April 1909, page 2
SCHOOL-The Johns Hill school has closed after a successful term. Miss Lou Thatcher, of Alexandria, who taught the term, has returned to her home.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 5 July 1911, page 5
ALEXANDRIA-The Trustees of Division 1 met at Alexandria last week and elected the following teachers: Manton Boyers was elected Principal and Miss Lou Thatcher, assistant of the Alexandria Public school.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 20 December 1911, page 8
ILL-Miss Lou Thatcher, teacher in the Alexandria School, who has been quite ill for the past week, resumed her duties, Monday.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 13 March 1912, page 5
ALEANDRIA-Alexandria School, which was taught by M B Boyers and Miss Lou Thatcher, closed Friday.
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Kentucky Post, Sunday, 8 September 1929, page 2
SCHOOLS-Alexandria-Rural schools throughout Campbell co. will open for their regular school year Monday. Lou Thatcher, first and second grades.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 18 October 1935, page 3
ENROLLED-Members of the Alexandria school faculty are: Lou Thatcher, first grade.
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Kentucky Post, May 1944
RETIRES-Miss Lou Thatcher a familiar figure to all who have attended Campbell County Elementary School, in Alexandria, Kentucky, and many others who attended schools in the county during the past (50) years, has completed her fiftieth year of teaching and is retiring from the Campbell County School system. Miss Thatcher who is (70) years old taught her last class Friday when school closed for the summer.
Fifty years ago she began teaching at Poplar Creek, Kentucky, after studying at Eastern Normal School, now Eastern State Teachers' College at Richmond, Kentucky. In those days, schools were quite small and students walked for miles to learn the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic.
" I began by teaching the first eight grades in a one room school house," Miss Thatcher said. "soon it was narrowed down to four grades, then two and since consolidation in the county school, has been just the first grade."
Miss Thatcher has taught in the Alexandria school for the past (33) years. She cannot begin to estimate the number of boys and girls she taught in those years, she said . " Many of my former pupils are all over the world now", Miss Thatcher added, as they were in the last war, too. I am glad to be retiring but there is a sadness about it." Her sisters, Miss Maggie Thatcher, retired two years ago after teaching (50) years in the Campbell County schools also. Her sister Miss Blanche Thatcher started her career in the Campbell County School system and is teaching in the Covington, Kentucky system.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 1 June 1944, page 1
RETIRES-Fifty years as a teacher at the Campbell county elementary school, and at the Poplar Creek, Ky. school, was ended with the closed of the Alexandria school for Miss Lou Thatcher, when she was retired by the Board of Education Friday. Fifty years ago when she was 20 Miss Thatcher began teaching at the Poplar Creek grade school after having graduated from Eastern Normal School, now the Eastern State Teachers College, Richmond Ky.
In the 33 years she has taught at the Alexandria school she must have taught thousands of boys and girls but she does not remember the number and the formet students are now scattered throughout the world in all branches of endeavor. "Although I'm glad to be retiring there is a sadness about it all," Miss Thatcher said. A sister, Maggie Thatcher retired two years ago after having taught for 50 years in the Campbell county schools.
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Cincinnati Post and Times Star, Friday, 18 March 1960, page 35
DEAR MOLLY: I have an aunt who taught school in northern Kentucky for 44 years. She has spent most of the winter in bed and will celebrate her 86th birthday March 26. She would love cards from the pen pals. She is Miss Lou Thatcher, 115 E Main street, Alexandria, Ky.