Word: dillon
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...Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs emeritus at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and renowned multinational business scholar Raymond Vernon died on Aug. 26 due to complications from cancer...
...Dillon communicates via e-mail; several computers, including one that can "speak" her written words; and a paper pad on which she writes exquisite script. She can still walk, and everywhere she goes, kids rush up to squeeze her hand or hug her. They know that she remains the same Mrs. Dillon, beloved for dressing up in costumes--not just for Halloween--and for putting sunflowers in every nook of the library...
...colleagues talk frankly with their classes about her illness, emphasizing that even though Mrs. Dillon now has a disability, she is the same person inside that she has always been. On a recent Monday, teacher Shelly Bancroft read David Adler's Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man to her fourth-graders, then led a group discussion. Katha Edwards' class, which had read E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan, about a bird without a voice, talked about Dillon's muteness. Said a student: "Mrs. Dillon is brave. She has a disease, but she works and works and never gives...
...teachers at Williams and Graystone believe that such exercises are helping students empathize with handicapped people, including those with learning disabilities who sit alongside them in class. But Dillon is also a role model for dealing with adversity. Says Barbara Schroeder, mother of a Williams third-grader: "They've learned that if something like this happened to them, they wouldn't have to hide. They could go on." But are these kids too young for the likely next lesson? Denise Aitken, mother of a Graystone student, doesn't think so. "Death is a part of life. They'll look back...
...Dillon does not want to cry in front of the children, so she tries not to think about the end of life. She finds work the best distraction. After all, there's a reading celebration to run, summer-activity packets to prepare, a children's book on disabilities she wants to write. "I love what I do," she says. "With less time before me, I have to live even faster now. I'm like the little engine that could." The little girl who wanted to be a teacher got her wish, and her greatest lesson is her last...