Friday, August 30, 2019
My eighth grade English teacher, whom I understood cared as much and more about me as about my ability, or lack thereof, to diagram sentences, although I still think about those diagrams with some degree of anxiety. Cast me in "Inherit the Wind" my senior year, inspiring a life long enjoyment and appreciation of theater. Trusted me with a summer job for a couple of years at the snack shop at the community pool, where I ate most of his profits. Believed in me, encouraged me, made me a better person, and this world a better place. A man and friend who truly was a "teacher."
