Peggy Osborn received recognition for her teaching tenure at Brandon High School, where she taught from 1953 through 2000, with a few years off in the stretch. Her subjects: English, journalism and speech. Osborn was the retired teacher with the most years of service recognized at the fourth annual Teacher Appreciation Luncheon sponsored by the Brandon High School Alumni Association at the school on Jan. 5, 2009. She attended the luncheon with her husband, Rodney, who was a former assistant principal at Brandon High. He later became principal at Dowdell Middle School. The two married 60 years ago this August.

"My speciality was American literature," Peggy Osborn said. "In the summer we traveled all over the United States and we came back and I could tell all the kids about all the famous places historically, from coast to coast," where the literary greats lived and worked.

The Osborns have two sons, Tim, who graduated from Brandon High in 1976, and James, who graduated from the school two years later. James "Jamey" Osborn is principal of Ben Hill Middle School, also in Hillsborough County, Fla. Tim, a marine biologist, taught for one year and now in the coordinator of the eastern gulf NOAH projects.

"My grandmother was a teacher, my mother was a teacher and I was a third-generation teacher," Osborn said. "That struck a chord with both boys."

Peggy Osborn received recognition for her teaching tenure at Brandon High School, where she taught from 1953 through 2000, with a few years off in the stretch. Her subjects: English, journalism and speech. Osborn was the retired teacher with the most years of service recognized at the fourth annual Teacher Appreciation Luncheon sponsored by the Brandon High School Alumni Association at the school on Jan. 5, 2009. She attended the luncheon with her husband, Rodney, who was a former assistant principal at Brandon High. He later became principal at Dowdell Middle School. The two married 60 years ago this August.

"My speciality was American literature," Peggy Osborn said. "In the summer we traveled all over the United States and we came back and I could tell all the kids about all the famous places historically, from coast to coast," where the literary greats lived and worked.

The Osborns have two sons, Tim, who graduated from Brandon High in 1976, and James, who graduated from the school two years later. James "Jamey" Osborn is principal of Ben Hill Middle School, also in Hillsborough County, Fla. Tim, a marine biologist, taught for one year and now in the coordinator of the eastern gulf NOAH projects.

"My grandmother was a teacher, my mother was a teacher and I was a third-generation teacher," Osborn said. "That struck a chord with both boys."