One day I'm going to make a list of all the great English teachers in novels. And then Cathy starts high school, and meets Joan, who's a whole new kind of awful, and Steve, who's not awful at all, and Mary Beth, who's my favorite character.Īnd then there's Miss Vincent, who is an Awesome English Teacher. Trudy is great, and I love the pages that describe Cathy's month learning how to walk with a guide dog.
Cathy rebounds (mostly to spite Miss Creel) and gets Trudy. The detail here is all too real it takes all sorts to make a world, after all, and the staff and students at the school represent quite the spectrum. There are so many reactions: the awful woman from the State School for the Blind, the neighbor who tells Cathy's mother to put Cathy in an institution, the friend who drops her like a hot potato.Ĭathy decides to go to the state school so she won't be pitied, and it's a miserable learning experience. She's a newly blind teenager, and she's an artist.
Cathy is a teen with glaucoma, and the surgery that's supposed to save her vision doesn't work. It feels like a precursor of sorts to Izzy, Willy Nilly. So this is another really old YA, and it's a good one. She used her other senses and her brilliant imagination to create her vivid stories which are still enjoyed by her loyal readers today. Her novel "Light a Single Candle" was based on her own experiences with blindness. She is survived by her niece and nephews. In Rhinelander till her death in 2007 at the age of 75.
T V Olsen died in 1993 and she continued to live Beverly moved to Sun Prairie before marrying fellow Wisconsin author, Theodore Victor (T.V.) Olsen, and moving to Rhinelander in 1976. Degree from Marquette University in 1961 and she returned to Mount Mary in 1962 to teach writing there until 1974. In 1954, she graduated cum laude from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee where she wrote her first young novel, Song of the Voyager which later won Dodd Mead's For practice, she began typing remembered stories which led to her inventing stories. Beverly had planned to be an artist, but an impending blindness impelled her to learn typing in order to rejoin her high school class. Beverly was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a long time resident of Rhinelander.
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