I taught Latin in high school for years and loved it. I am still called on to translate from Latin. You might check my articles on Deferrari, McGuire, and Peebles in the Biographical Dictionary of American Classicists, ed. Very well indeed for a career as a teacher of classical languages and of literature in translation. I was especially grateful for the Department's insistence on a thorough grounding in classical Latin as the basis for further work in patristics and medieval Latin.
Nothing can replace a thorough knowledge of the ancient languages.
The interseting classes of Dr. McGuire and the fear of Dr. Siefert's classes. Doing a Master's dissertation under Dr. Tongue. Greek in our college and theologate for four years before coming to Ohio University where I have been for 22 years. Librarian at Holy Spirit School in Union, NJ I enjoyed Dr. Peebles with his boyish stance as he taught. It was especially helpful in my teaching of Latin.