We have all had some teachers we forget and some we remember, but one former Muirhead teacher made such an impression that her old pupils are getting in touch nearly 60 years later.
Edith Wild, 86, was known as Miss Marnie when she taught at the local school from 1949, after finishing studying at St Andrews University and the old Dundee College, until 1955.
She finished teaching when she married Wallace Wild and moved to Bridge of Weir, near Glasgow. However, all those years later she has been reunited with a number of former pupils.
Edith’s daughter, Fiona Beattie, said: “It was her first teaching job after she finished university.
“She didn’t stay in touch with the pupils after school but she did keep in touch with her own school friends from when she went to the Morgan.
“Through them she’s been put back in contact with the old pupils and because of one pupil passing on her details she’s got back in touch with others.”
Fiona recently took her mother, who now lives in Ullapool, to visit one old pupil, Margaret Brown, 75, who is in a care home in Forfar.
She still sees Dick Balharry of the John Muir Trust, Agnes Stott and one couple of old childhood sweethearts Sheila Milne and Jim Webster who married each other.
Fiona said: “I think she was a favoured teacher, though I actually don’t think she liked teaching very much.
“I think she was only very young at the time. The girls were great, but the boys could be loveable rogues.”
Edith taught 12 to 16 year olds English, history, geography, drama, religious education and netball.
Fiona said: “Muirhead was an old country school with newer buildings added.”
She added: “My mum remembers it as a very happy school.”