“Name that Year” is designed to put your knowledge of Tracy and its newsmakers of the past to the test. Each week, we will publish a news item that ran in a past edition — maybe it was a major event, or a story about a Tracy resident — it’s up to you to determine in what year that particular news item hit the pages of the paper:
• “Sarge is leaving.”
Margaret Peterson said farewell to Tracy Area High School in a big way at graduation Sunday of this year. The retiring English and social studies teacher led this year’s class into the THS gym Sunday for commencement exercises.
After Supt. Harold Remme presented Peterson with an appreciation gift, the class and commencement crowd gave Peterson a standing ovation.
“You will be remembered for your excellent teaching skills and tough discipline. You have made a difference. God bless you as you head down the road to retirement,” Remme told Mrs. Peterson.
Mrs. Peterson and her husband, Clint, plan to spend more time traveling in the wake of her retirement.
“Both Clint and I will be tour guides for Sunshine Travel of Apple Valley. We will be spending time with our grandchildren and our family. I plan to have time to enjoy my home and my friends and to start golfing again,” said Peterson.
Mrs. Peterson grew up in the Madison and Dawson area and graduated from Dawson High School. She attended Concordia College in Moorhead, earning a major in English and a minor in Social Studies. Her first teaching position was in Sauk Rapids and the second in Kenyon.
“Clint and I met while both of us were teaching in Kenyon. We moved to Tracy in 1960. I took some time off from teaching to raise our family. I began doing some substitute teaching when the youngest was four.”
She attended grad school at Mankato State University and assisted her husband, Clint, with his band program, especially summer marching band. It was in band that students gave her the nickname “Sarge.”
“I really enjoyed being a part of the band experiences. There were many interesting and unique experiences,” she said.
• Last week’s answer: The city of Garvin completed its switch to the rural water system in 1986.
