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Mary Mayfield began teaching in Princeton ISD in 1975. She spent 21 years as a kindergarten teacher and one teaching first grade before spending seven years as an assistant principal. She retired in 2003.

But that didn't slow her down, because Mrs. Mayfield was back at PISD in 2004 as an assistant to the testing coordinator for another 15 years, so she spent 44 years as a Princeton educator.

Mary Mayfield remembers every detail about the day she found out there would be a Mary Mayfield Elementary School.

“There are some things in life that you remember every little detail and then some that you don’t remember at all,” she said. “The day I found out that I was going to have a school named for me is one of the days where I remember every little detail.

She said she started getting messages on her phone telling her to read PISD's Board Notes about trustees releasing the list of future school names.

“When I read them, I just couldn’t comprehend it all,” Mrs. Mayfield said. “I even thought, ‘Is this real?’”

“When I see Clark, I see Mr. Clark, and he was actually the superintendent who hired me, then I go to Godwin, and I see Mr. Godwin, who was my high school principal,” she said. “Then there’s Harper, and Mr. Harper was my elementary principal, and Mrs. Lowe was our teacher and Leta Smith was also my teacher. And then there’s the most precious Nellie Canup, who was such a mentor to me. I see all of these names and I wonder, ‘How do I deserve to be in this elite group?’”

Mrs. Mayfield recalled her 44 years with Princeton ISD.

“I never thought of my job as a job,” she said. “I loved every minute of my teaching career, and I loved what I was doing.”