To mark National Teacher’s Appreciation Day, President Barack Obama paid a touching tribute to one very important educator in his life — his 5th grade teacher Mabel Hefty.
“To my 5th grade teacher Ms. Mabel Hefty and the educators who inspire our young people every single day: Thank you,” Obama tweeted Tuesday along with a photo of the class of pre-teens.
There are some seriously ’70s plaids and prints going on in the picture, and a young Obama can be seen grinning in the back row.
Hefty was his teacher at the Punahou school in 1972, but the role she played in Obama’s life still stuck with him decades later. Obama had moved in with his grandparents in Hawaii to attend a large, private college-prep school on a scholarship. Read more…
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