Editing Zerna Sharp (section)

==Later years==
Scott Foresman made changes in their readers in the 1960s in an effort to keep the stories relevant, updating the series every five years.<ref name=Gabriel/> The 1965 edition, the last of the Dick and Jane series, introduced the first [[African Americans|African American]] family as characters in a first-grade reader. The family included two parents and their three children: a son, "Mike," and twin daughters, "Pam" and "Penny."<ref name=Tandy/> Although the Dick and Jane series of primers continued to be sold until 1973, and were used in some classroom throughout the 1970s, they were replaced with other reading texts and gradually disappeared from use in schools.<ref name=NYT-6-1981/><ref name="Communications1999"/><ref name=Gabriel/>

In her retirement Sharp traveled and remained active in the education field. She divided her time between [[California]] and [[Indiana]], where she established a home in her later years at [[Frankfort, Indiana|Frankfort]].<ref name=NYT-6-1981/><ref name=GS304-05/>