The Medford Mail Tribune
Jackson County, Oregon
May 18< 2010
Eugenia Hughes Antley
February 28, 1924 - May 13, 2010
Mrs. Antley was born February 28, 1924 in Cope, South Carolina to parents Richmond J. and Flossie L. Hughes. She died Thursday, May 13, 2010, in Medford.
Her husband, Thomas R. of Medford, survives. Eugenia was a school teacher.
Conger~Morris of Medford assisted in arrangements.
~~~
The Mail Tribune
June 10, 2010
A teacher who made a difference
By Garth Edwards
Editor's Note: Eugenia Hughes Antley, 86, of Medford, who taught at Oak Grove Elementary School, died May 13. Her obituary appeared in the Mail Tribune on May 18. A former student wrote this remembrance of a teacher who had a profound impact.
Mrs. Antley. You did not call her by any other name. It is to this day, 42 years later, still Mrs. Antley.
It had to do with earned respect. Students and parents alike. The Mrs. Antley I remember was very direct, and did not mince words. I would venture a guess that it had to do with the Southern drawl, the slightly pursed lips and the "look" as well.
I remember that Mrs. Antley came to teach at Oak Grove Elementary School after many her age were well along the career path of education. She did have life experience, however, from rearing kids.
I had a couple of years at school that were pure hell. In retrospect, I was a classic attention-deficit-disorder candidate by today's standards and a challenge for many teachers. Corporal punishment was the norm. All it did was make me seethe.
I had the benefit of having Mrs. Antley as my sixth-grade teacher at Oak Grove. She requested me as a student for her class. As a result, I found a teacher who redirected me from the road I was headed down. I found that she made very plain what was expected and gave me a direction to follow in order to accomplish that end.
She listened, and although I may not have welcomed her answer, she listened. She actually challenged me to think about how to work something out.
I was the recipient of the "look" many more times than I care to remember, but I knew I had reached the boundary and to go no further. Mrs. Antley talked with me, not to me or at me. She earned my respect by her actions, not the fact of her presence alone.
My wife is an elementary teacher in the Portland area and we talk about the challenges she faces on a daily basis with the kids. I don't know how she does it. There is not one topic we discuss that Mrs. Antley is not in the back of my mind.
I keep in touch with the Rogue Valley online, checking almost daily, and often see the parents of acquaintances passing away and some people with whom I went to school as well. It is a segment in life we all reach in the transition to becoming the survivors of the past generation. That transition is no less formidable than it was for them.
The passing of Mrs. Antley is truly a loss, but her life and heart as a teacher was a gift. I can say nothing else than thank you, and peace be with you.
Garth Edwards lives in Portland.
NOTES for researchers: Eugenia Antley's husband, Thomas Raysor Antley's obituary is from the Eugene Register-Guard, Lane County, Oregon on Thursday, April 12, 2012. He was the son of Thomas Raysor Antley and Agnes Louise Bozard Antley.
Jackson County, Oregon
May 18< 2010
Eugenia Hughes Antley
February 28, 1924 - May 13, 2010
Mrs. Antley was born February 28, 1924 in Cope, South Carolina to parents Richmond J. and Flossie L. Hughes. She died Thursday, May 13, 2010, in Medford.
Her husband, Thomas R. of Medford, survives. Eugenia was a school teacher.
Conger~Morris of Medford assisted in arrangements.
~~~
The Mail Tribune
June 10, 2010
A teacher who made a difference
By Garth Edwards
Editor's Note: Eugenia Hughes Antley, 86, of Medford, who taught at Oak Grove Elementary School, died May 13. Her obituary appeared in the Mail Tribune on May 18. A former student wrote this remembrance of a teacher who had a profound impact.
Mrs. Antley. You did not call her by any other name. It is to this day, 42 years later, still Mrs. Antley.
It had to do with earned respect. Students and parents alike. The Mrs. Antley I remember was very direct, and did not mince words. I would venture a guess that it had to do with the Southern drawl, the slightly pursed lips and the "look" as well.
I remember that Mrs. Antley came to teach at Oak Grove Elementary School after many her age were well along the career path of education. She did have life experience, however, from rearing kids.
I had a couple of years at school that were pure hell. In retrospect, I was a classic attention-deficit-disorder candidate by today's standards and a challenge for many teachers. Corporal punishment was the norm. All it did was make me seethe.
I had the benefit of having Mrs. Antley as my sixth-grade teacher at Oak Grove. She requested me as a student for her class. As a result, I found a teacher who redirected me from the road I was headed down. I found that she made very plain what was expected and gave me a direction to follow in order to accomplish that end.
She listened, and although I may not have welcomed her answer, she listened. She actually challenged me to think about how to work something out.
I was the recipient of the "look" many more times than I care to remember, but I knew I had reached the boundary and to go no further. Mrs. Antley talked with me, not to me or at me. She earned my respect by her actions, not the fact of her presence alone.
My wife is an elementary teacher in the Portland area and we talk about the challenges she faces on a daily basis with the kids. I don't know how she does it. There is not one topic we discuss that Mrs. Antley is not in the back of my mind.
I keep in touch with the Rogue Valley online, checking almost daily, and often see the parents of acquaintances passing away and some people with whom I went to school as well. It is a segment in life we all reach in the transition to becoming the survivors of the past generation. That transition is no less formidable than it was for them.
The passing of Mrs. Antley is truly a loss, but her life and heart as a teacher was a gift. I can say nothing else than thank you, and peace be with you.
Garth Edwards lives in Portland.
NOTES for researchers: Eugenia Antley's husband, Thomas Raysor Antley's obituary is from the Eugene Register-Guard, Lane County, Oregon on Thursday, April 12, 2012. He was the son of Thomas Raysor Antley and Agnes Louise Bozard Antley.
The Medford Mail Tribune
Jackson County, Oregon
May 18< 2010
Eugenia Hughes Antley
February 28, 1924 - May 13, 2010
Mrs. Antley was born February 28, 1924 in Cope, South Carolina to parents Richmond J. and Flossie L. Hughes. She died Thursday, May 13, 2010, in Medford.
Her husband, Thomas R. of Medford, survives. Eugenia was a school teacher.
Conger~Morris of Medford assisted in arrangements.
~~~
The Mail Tribune
June 10, 2010
A teacher who made a difference
By Garth Edwards
Editor's Note: Eugenia Hughes Antley, 86, of Medford, who taught at Oak Grove Elementary School, died May 13. Her obituary appeared in the Mail Tribune on May 18. A former student wrote this remembrance of a teacher who had a profound impact.
Mrs. Antley. You did not call her by any other name. It is to this day, 42 years later, still Mrs. Antley.
It had to do with earned respect. Students and parents alike. The Mrs. Antley I remember was very direct, and did not mince words. I would venture a guess that it had to do with the Southern drawl, the slightly pursed lips and the "look" as well.
I remember that Mrs. Antley came to teach at Oak Grove Elementary School after many her age were well along the career path of education. She did have life experience, however, from rearing kids.
I had a couple of years at school that were pure hell. In retrospect, I was a classic attention-deficit-disorder candidate by today's standards and a challenge for many teachers. Corporal punishment was the norm. All it did was make me seethe.
I had the benefit of having Mrs. Antley as my sixth-grade teacher at Oak Grove. She requested me as a student for her class. As a result, I found a teacher who redirected me from the road I was headed down. I found that she made very plain what was expected and gave me a direction to follow in order to accomplish that end.
She listened, and although I may not have welcomed her answer, she listened. She actually challenged me to think about how to work something out.
I was the recipient of the "look" many more times than I care to remember, but I knew I had reached the boundary and to go no further. Mrs. Antley talked with me, not to me or at me. She earned my respect by her actions, not the fact of her presence alone.
My wife is an elementary teacher in the Portland area and we talk about the challenges she faces on a daily basis with the kids. I don't know how she does it. There is not one topic we discuss that Mrs. Antley is not in the back of my mind.
I keep in touch with the Rogue Valley online, checking almost daily, and often see the parents of acquaintances passing away and some people with whom I went to school as well. It is a segment in life we all reach in the transition to becoming the survivors of the past generation. That transition is no less formidable than it was for them.
The passing of Mrs. Antley is truly a loss, but her life and heart as a teacher was a gift. I can say nothing else than thank you, and peace be with you.
Garth Edwards lives in Portland.
NOTES for researchers: Eugenia Antley's husband, Thomas Raysor Antley's obituary is from the Eugene Register-Guard, Lane County, Oregon on Thursday, April 12, 2012. He was the son of Thomas Raysor Antley and Agnes Louise Bozard Antley.
Jackson County, Oregon
May 18< 2010
Eugenia Hughes Antley
February 28, 1924 - May 13, 2010
Mrs. Antley was born February 28, 1924 in Cope, South Carolina to parents Richmond J. and Flossie L. Hughes. She died Thursday, May 13, 2010, in Medford.
Her husband, Thomas R. of Medford, survives. Eugenia was a school teacher.
Conger~Morris of Medford assisted in arrangements.
~~~
The Mail Tribune
June 10, 2010
A teacher who made a difference
By Garth Edwards
Editor's Note: Eugenia Hughes Antley, 86, of Medford, who taught at Oak Grove Elementary School, died May 13. Her obituary appeared in the Mail Tribune on May 18. A former student wrote this remembrance of a teacher who had a profound impact.
Mrs. Antley. You did not call her by any other name. It is to this day, 42 years later, still Mrs. Antley.
It had to do with earned respect. Students and parents alike. The Mrs. Antley I remember was very direct, and did not mince words. I would venture a guess that it had to do with the Southern drawl, the slightly pursed lips and the "look" as well.
I remember that Mrs. Antley came to teach at Oak Grove Elementary School after many her age were well along the career path of education. She did have life experience, however, from rearing kids.
I had a couple of years at school that were pure hell. In retrospect, I was a classic attention-deficit-disorder candidate by today's standards and a challenge for many teachers. Corporal punishment was the norm. All it did was make me seethe.
I had the benefit of having Mrs. Antley as my sixth-grade teacher at Oak Grove. She requested me as a student for her class. As a result, I found a teacher who redirected me from the road I was headed down. I found that she made very plain what was expected and gave me a direction to follow in order to accomplish that end.
She listened, and although I may not have welcomed her answer, she listened. She actually challenged me to think about how to work something out.
I was the recipient of the "look" many more times than I care to remember, but I knew I had reached the boundary and to go no further. Mrs. Antley talked with me, not to me or at me. She earned my respect by her actions, not the fact of her presence alone.
My wife is an elementary teacher in the Portland area and we talk about the challenges she faces on a daily basis with the kids. I don't know how she does it. There is not one topic we discuss that Mrs. Antley is not in the back of my mind.
I keep in touch with the Rogue Valley online, checking almost daily, and often see the parents of acquaintances passing away and some people with whom I went to school as well. It is a segment in life we all reach in the transition to becoming the survivors of the past generation. That transition is no less formidable than it was for them.
The passing of Mrs. Antley is truly a loss, but her life and heart as a teacher was a gift. I can say nothing else than thank you, and peace be with you.
Garth Edwards lives in Portland.
NOTES for researchers: Eugenia Antley's husband, Thomas Raysor Antley's obituary is from the Eugene Register-Guard, Lane County, Oregon on Thursday, April 12, 2012. He was the son of Thomas Raysor Antley and Agnes Louise Bozard Antley.
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