May Smith

May Smith was born in 1914 in Swadlincote South Derbyshire. She trained to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College London. For many years she kept a diary with a record of her life and her reading. After her first post at an all age elementary school in Swadlincote in 1937 she moved to Springfield a new Swadlincote junior school where she taught during the Second World War. After marriage and children and a break from full-time teaching she returned to Springfield where she remained until her retirement in 1975. She died in 2004.