BATON ROUGE, La. — Eva Kleinpeter, who recently turned 82, started her education and learning in a two-home segregated schoolhouse in rural Lafayette Parish. Ten several years back, she retired from a vocation as a schoolteacher and professor of education and learning.
But she scarcely slowed down. And she never ever seriously stopped educating.
Kleinpeter volunteers at educational institutions and with civic companies, and she provides cursive producing instructional workbooks — guides that she wrote — to elementary colleges.
3 a long time ago, when he turned principal of Wildwood Elementary, Daniel Edwards fulfilled Kleinpeter by way of her function with Volunteers in Community Faculties.
“She really wants to make a contribution any way she can and keep engaged with kids,” Edwards explained. “I’m 56, so to be on the elementary campus, that keeps me rejuvenated and gives me energy and enthusiasm, and I assume which is portion of what