Mrs. Menzies was a school teacher at Woodside Junior High and the class teacher to Kelly Curtis and Arby Benton in The Lost World. Her first name was not identified.
History[]
The Lost World[]
Mrs. Menzies was identified as Kelly and Arby's teacher. She played a recorded video given by Dr. Richard Levine that discussed mass extinction, particularly a crater in Manson, Iowa identified from sixty-five million years ago, yet specified as too small to have killed dinosaurs. The recorded video also mentioned another crater in Mérida, Yucatán that emptied the Gulf of Mexico, though Levine said there were disputes over that crater. Mrs. Menzies switched off the recording video and told Kelly and Arby that Levine informed her he could not arrive back in time to teach the class. He did tell her he would return after Spring Break. Kelly answered affirmative to her query. Her final act was to give the class homework - All of chapter seven including all of the exercises at the end of part one, as well as part two. Despite telling the class to complete the homework, they typically groaned.[1]
Mrs. Menzies may be one of the teachers that discouraged Kelly from excelling in mathematics.[2]