Slamming his school book shut, student Willard Miller, then 16, seethed with anger. Stared at his Spanish teacher, Ms Graber, with growing fury.
How dare she give him a bad grade?
‘See me later,’ she told him, agreeing to meet him after class to discuss his continuing poor marks.
Ms Graber, 66, had come to teaching later in life, after spending her young adulthood as a flight attendant, then earning her pilot’s licence.
She actually became one of the first women in Mexico licensed to
