John,
We had a teacher who had that gift, and retained it, despite being our (class) teacher for the year and so taking most of our classes.
I got back into contact with Mrs Phillips over 9 years ago through the local paper by giving them my old P.O Box No. She's exactly 20 years older than us (her class). I phone her at Christmas and on her birthday and her voice, despite age and illness, perhaps the more so because of them, has retained that quality that draws your attention - it's well worth 10 times the phone bill, just listening to her. Of course, she still calls me by (and writes) using an old name and initial, but so does (almost) everyone who has not first met in the last 25 years*. Those are probably part of the ''magic'' of listening to her!
She also still writes with the same flowing elegance as she did on the blackboard 55 years ago.
* As you probably know, you can (could then) change your name, full or in part, quite simply in Scotland, essentially by simply publishing the change the requisite number of times in the press and stating that all (formerly ) documents remain valid. As most of mine (all except one Christian name) had already changed once through adoption - with dad's consent just before he died - I couldn't resist the opportunity to call myself by names a little more discrete, and incidentally discreet! There are are, or were, many Scots' laws entirely different to those of England - a fairly drastic example was that by requesting it a police station, a man could arrange for two policemen to come to where he was living ( he did not have be either landlord or owner) to ''put the woman out'' (onto the street) and after identifying the woman, she had to leave in what she was wearing at that moment (i.e. without a coat or handbag) unless the man gave permission for each specific item. I know it was still the law in early 1982 as it happened to one of my staff, but the police were good enough to fix her some decent accommodation for the night, and to phone me at her request - poor woman was one of a pair of orphans - it turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to her, as she's now a happy granny!