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Longtime teacher part of Ripton’s graduating class

SUSAN OGILVIE BEGAN teaching Ripton students 36 years ago. Except for two one-year sabbaticals teaching abroad, Ogilvie has made the education of Ripton children her life’s work. Her career as a fulltime teacher will end this June, ironically at the same time Ripton Elementary School will close — perhaps forever.
Independent photo/John Flowers
April 17, 2025
It will be a bittersweet graduation this June for the handful of Ripton Elementary School 5th-graders who’ll have the poignant distinction of being perhaps the last class to move on from RES to Middlebury Union Middle School.
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