By Nate Jones

Staff writer

On July 10, Millie Enman will turn 100 years old. 

“Just stop for a moment and think of the things she’s seen,” her son Bill Enman said while sitting at his mother’s side. “She’s taught police and fire chiefs, doctors and guys in NASCAR.”

Bill Enman said Millie Enman started teaching when she was just 18 years old in a one-room school building in Fayette. Her students were older than she was. 

“I had girls that would cry because they were sad school was getting out,” she said with a laugh.

After 10 years at the Fayette school, Millie Enman married her husband and moved to South Portland, where she would live and raise her two sons for the next 65 years. While she taught full time at elementary schools in Scarborough, Bill Enman said his mother would substitute teach at schools in South Portland and once filled in for a teacher who left for an entire school year. 

When she wasn’t busy keeping order in the classroom, Bill Enman said his mother taught the many kids living along Highland Avenue about leadership through the Girl Scouts program. 

“There were a lot of kids living across the street from us, and she certainly touched most of them,” he said. 

On July 10, the great-grandmother will celebrate her 100^th birthday party, although she doesn’t know it yet, Bill Enman said. Anyone interested in attending the surprise party should call Bill Enman at 318-6642.