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Foreign language teacher who also sponsored the foreign language club, took us all to competitions, fun activities, welcomed us into her home for dinners. She was like a second mom, and she had two kids - one in my grade, one younger. Husband was a dean at a local university, so they highly valued education and she passed that along to all students, along with maternal warmth. I stayed in touch with her kids so I was told when she was diagnosed with cancer and not doing very well. I was able to write her a long letter telling her how much she had meant to me, for which I am thankful.
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AP English lit teacher. She taught me how to write. In addition to research projects and literary analysis papers, we did many timed writings in class in preparation for the AP exam and she was a TOUGH grader. Just brutal. It was frustrating, but by the end of the class, I had become an organized, logical, and confident writer. This has served me well my whole life, as I have built on the skills she taught me. And I got a 5 on the AP exam. As a fun aside, she had also been Paul Reubens’s English teacher way back when. Unfortunately, I did not have a chance to tell her how much she had meant to me before she passed.
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