Teaching or Journalism?
Her first skill was as a black and white illustrator. But she also entered a lyric poem, in English, in the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Port Talbot in 1932 where WH Davies, a local Monmouthshire poet was the adjudicator.
She decided to forsake a career as an art teacher for that of a freelance journalist.
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“Mrs. Zajac knows you didn’t try. You don’t just hand in junk to Mrs. Zajac. She’s been teaching an awful lot of years. She didn’t fall off the turnip cart yesterday. She told you she was an old-lady teacher.”
—Christine Zajac, U.S. fifth-grade teacher. As quoted in Among Schoolchildren, “September” section, part 1, by Tracy Kidder (1989)