Boston schoolmaster (Hall Jackson Kelley) promotes "Old Oregon" [John Ledyard, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Gray, John Jacob Astor, James Monroe , Albert Gallatin] -- Old Oregon's first school teachers (Spokane Garry, John Ball) [Sublette, Wyeth party, Fort Vancouver, John McLoughlin] -- Missionary teachers following exploring ones (Solomon Howard Smith, Cyrus Shepard, Whitman Mission Waiilatpu: Spalding Mission, Lapwai: Kamiah Charles Wilkes, Tshimakain Mission: Cushing Eells, Whitman College, Walla Walla; Elkanah Walker, primer in Spokane language; Richard Covington, Protestant & Catholic missionaries)-- Children arrive, teachers multiply, counties form Teachers & schools from territory to state (King County & Seattle, p. 59-61) -- Plus-personality teachers of early statehood (Edward Sturgis Ingraham, first superintendent of Seattle schools; Edward Stephen Meany, Dillis B. Ward, Sarah Elizabeth Ward, Lizzie Ordway, Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Julia E. Kennedy, Susan Dorsey, William Denison Lyman, Orrin S. Jones, Grandma Tabitha Brown) -- WEA & PTA -- New day of rewarded retirement is dawning -- Retirement era finds leaders in state & nation -- Rewards & reminiscences of retirement.