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Archive Home > 2008 > April > 03 > Meet Bend's oldest substitute teacher

Meet Bend's oldest substitute teacher

At 81, Ray Swee is still in the classroom after 59 years

By Sheila G. Miller / The Bulletin
April 3, 2008

In Ray Swee’s first year as a teacher, his students listened to the music of Bing Crosby and watched Abbott and Costello films.

When he enters a classroom today, the kids in the desks could be the grandchildren of those first students.

Swee, 81, started teaching in 1949. He retired as....

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