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A Christmas Gift for Teacher

Fae Decker Dix

Salt Lake City, Utah: General Board of Relief Society, January 1951

  • Fae Decker Dix: Author
Fiction, Short Story
As Miss Brown, an elementary school teacher, prepares for Christmas, she worries about her student, Joe. Joe is Native American, and his classmates are mean to him. Miss Brown has been looking out for him and trying to encourage the other students to treat him with kindness. After their Christmas celebration, Joe brings Miss Brown two pennies and tells her that his father has returned to work. Miss Brown will always hold a special place in her heart for Joe.
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BX 8605.1 .R28 vol.38 no.1
23-27; 70
English

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Published in The Relief Society Magazine, volume 38, issue 1, pages 23-27, 70, January 1951
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