When Pine Forge Academy opened its doors in September, 1946, Marguerite Dixon was there.  The  oldest of seven children, she was a member of the school„s inaugural senior class at this predominately Black boarding school nestled in the rolling hills of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Dixon was the first in her family to go away to school.  However, her six sisters and brothers followed the trail that she pioneered and also went on to achieve personal and professional success.  Now that the 86-year-old nursing educator is “happily retired,” as she calls it, she has again focused her energy on the academy — an institution with high standards for excellence and a commitment to producing well-balanced leaders.   “Pine Forge Academy was great for my family. Without the school, I don’t know what we would have done,” she said. “My father was killed in a traffic accident in the second half of my senior year at Pine Forge. My mother was left with seven children,” she said.  “Nevertheless, I graduated Pine Forge, and so did my siblings.”