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An English teacher in Michigan has taught continuously since 1958, and Guinness World Records confirmed her career at 67 years and 142 days — the longest career as a female language teacher — when she was 90.

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In 1958, the year Beverly Hannett-Price walked into a classroom for the first time, the US interstate highway system was two years old and the country’s first satellite had only just reached orbit. She has been teaching ever since. Not off and on, not with a break in the middle, but continuously, for nearly seven decades.
Guinness World Records has now made that career official, and the number they attached to it is what makes this more than a nice human-interest note.
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