【聯合晚報╱法新社】
還在教數學的紐約百歲教師
New York teacher still doing the math at 100
She was born while Europe was fighting World War I, but age is just a number to one New York math teacher, still going strong and celebrating her 100th birthday.
她出生時,歐洲正在打第一次世界大戰,但年齡對這位紐約數學老師來說只是一個數字,她已歡度100歲生日,身體依舊強健。
Madeline Scotto, who turned 100 on Thursday, works almost every day as a math coach at the Catholic school in Brooklyn where she was in the graduating class of 1928.
16日屆滿100歲的史柯多,幾乎每天都在布魯克林的一家天主教學校擔任數學老師,她是那個學校1928年畢業班的學生。
She was off Friday celebrating her birthday, but would be back at work on Monday morning, said a representative at St Ephrem School.
聖艾夫倫學校的一位代表說,她17日休假慶祝生日,但周一 (20日)上午就會重返工作崗位。
The sprightly Scotto told the DNAinfo website she couldn't believe how the years had raced by.
生氣蓬勃的史柯多告訴DNAinfo網站,時光飛逝令人難以置信。
"Last year I thought, 'this can't be, that I'm going to be 100.' I sat down and did the math actually!"
她說:「去年的時候我還在想,『不可能,我怎麼可能快100歲了。』我坐下來,好好地算了一下。」
St Ephrem's congratulated Scotto on its Facebook page.
聖艾夫倫學校在臉書網頁上為她慶生。
"Many students through the generations have been influenced by this amazing woman," it wrote.
上面寫著:「這位不可思議的女人影響了許多世代的眾多學生。」