Miss Othmar was first mentioned on October 5, 1959 and, from the start, Linus had a big crush on her. After an extended sequence where Linus repeatedly forgets to bring in egg shells for a class project, Miss Othmar quits her job to get married in the strip from February 5, 1960 (Linus announces that he is going to give her the egg shells as a wedding present in the following day's strip). Now named "Mrs. Hagemeyer", she writes to Linus telling him that she misses all her students, but misses him most of all. Linus floats on air upon reading this.