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3 unusual facts about Gladys Waddingham


Gladys Waddingham

Gladys Waddingham (1900–1997), a Spanish teacher at Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California, for 45 years, was the author of many books about her adopted city.

Waddingham taught some ten thousand youngsters during her high-school career, including Robert Finch and Glenn M. Anderson, both of whom became lieutenant-governors of California.

She spent her final year in a rest home in Alhambra, where she died on 15 April 1997, at 96 years of age.



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