I first met  Mr. Duggan in 1969 when our oldest daughter started to Kindergarten and he was the principal of School #54. He was a very dedicated and fair person and always listened to the parents. I became active in PTA and it wasn't long before I was president.  (Could be because no one wanted the job.) He was supportive of the Volunteer's Program that Ruth Lampe started to help student's with reading and the  Book Fair held during an Open House. A puppet Show in December and Black History and Culture programs were presentrd in February.  We had a strong core of good teachers and parents who helped with the Bake Sale and the Plant Sale. When the 6th graders had punch and cookies as their "send -off party" to junior hIgh, I suggested it would go more smoothly to have a punch bowl at each end of the long table.  Mr.  Duggan  thanked me  because it did work. Of course there were many "snow days" and one year the students were going to school late in June.  Ruth Lampe followed me as president and worked with Mr. Duggan to send home a list of suggested summer activities so the students wouldn't be watching TV all summer. He also had a sense of humor and told the teachers about a principal who was worried because a superintendent was coming to visit him and someone told him: "Look busy."

We moved to Elkhart , IN in Oct. 1976 and Mr. Duggan sent the most beautiful note of thanks telling me I had my "head on straight."   He was a gifted writer and I wish I could find the note but it got lost in the hecticness of a long-distance move.

My deepest sympathy to all of you who have lost a wonderful person.

Shirley Blickensderfer