10/07/2020 05:19:16 PM“It’s been a lovely 48 years,” Mignonette “Lee” Mountain said, reflecting on her retirement as a literacy professor at the University of Houston College of Education. “I was lucky enough to land at UH,” she said. “It’s been a happily ever after.” Mountain’s influence will continue to reverberate through the colleagues she empowered, the hundreds of students she taught and the dozens of students she supported with scholarships. “Dr. Mountain’s impact in the College of Education cannot be underestimated,” said Margaret Hale, one of Mountain’s former students who now chairs the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, where Mountain taught. “For four decades, she helped launch our students into the profession, preparing them for the classroom or helping them break into the world of publishing and presenting.”