1978 Vern Baer

1978  VERN BAER

English teacher at Bingham High School and substitute teacher in the Jordan School District for over 60 years—one of the longest serving teachers in Bingham’s history

She described herself as a strict teacher who required her students to pay attention and listen because they would need to know what she taught them one day

As a substitute, it was said that, “She did not just tend until the teacher got back.”

Her legendary career spanned four generations of Bingham Miners as a teacher and a substitute