Oral history with Margaret Andresen

              Oral history with Margaret Andresen
F341.5 . M57 vol. 749
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Biography
Mrs. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benjamin Keith. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Mrs. Andresen married Paul Leroy Andresen on February 3, 1967.
As a teacher at Moss Point High School from September 1964 to May 1967, Mrs. Andresen witnessed the first integration of a high school on the Gulf Coast. During her thirty and one half years tenure at the Jefferson Davis Campus of MGCCC, Mrs. Andresen taught foreign languages and occasionally English. She also received the Instructor of the Year award while at Jefferson Davis.
Mrs. Andresen is an annual participant of the New Prospect Camp Meeting. She is retired and spends her time helping her mother with charity work and various projects.
Table of Contents
I. Life at the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
II. Rules at Perkinston
III. Pursuing the study of foreign languages
IV. First teaching job
V. Integration at Moss Point High
VI. Moving to the Jefferson Davis Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
VII. Integration at the community college
VIII. Classes with Vietnam veterans
IX. Teaching to a wide variety of students
X. Meeting husband for the first time
XI. Tornado of 1967
XII. Hurricane Camille
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