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...Doris Dillon knew she wanted to be a teacher from the moment she was named library monitor in third grade. For years she practiced on every doll, stuffed animal and family pet. When she graduated to real elementary school students, so deftly did she zero in on each child's learning style that it was said she could "teach a rock to read." Parents pleaded to have their children placed in her classes. Colleagues copied her methods. For hundreds of schoolkids in San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Dillon embodied some of their favorite fictional characters--Miss Rumphius, Ms. Frizzle...
...Dillon had shifted from classroom teaching to running the libraries at the Graystone and Williams elementary schools in San Jose when, in 1997, her speech began to slow. Doctors found she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the baseball great who succumbed to it. There is no cure for ALS; 80% of its victims die within five years of diagnosis. Yet once the diagnosis was confirmed in 1998, Dillon's first response was to write to the staff and the students' families, explaining her illness and her determination to continue working. Their support...
Against the odds, Dillon, 56, still exhibits much of the stamina that earned her the sobriquet Energizer Bunny as she arranges author visits, runs writing contests and helps kids find books they will like. But since June 1998, she has had to give up the greatest joy of her job--reading aloud to children--because ALS has damaged the neurons that control speaking, chewing and swallowing. Read-alouds are now handled by volunteers. Eating will soon have to be handled through a feeding tube...
When he got home from the Olympics, Hobbs settled into a successful career in the business world. In March he stepped down as chair of the Wall Street investment firm Warburg Dillon Read, after spending his entire career at the firm, working his way up the executive ladder. Most of his career was spent in England...
Across the way in the Dillon Gymnasium, Princeton was dismantling Cornell in the other semifinal match...