Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white people. Our hand-me-downs were good hand-me-downs!" Though Kelly's grandmother was a cook, his mother was a home economics teacher with a master's degree, his father, a fishmonger, insurance agent and cabdriver...
...Kelly has known what he wanted to be. Nonetheless, at Jackson State University, then an all-black school, he went through a "militant stage." His best friend hanged himself in jail. "I remember singing 'Burn, baby, burn,' and knowing what it meant," Kelly says. And there was the teacher, Michael Thomas recalled, who "told Pat he'd never amount to anything. Right after that, Pat dropped...
...older business people retire from civic life. And the town's young people show no inclination to stay. When a visitor asked a class of 20 Clay County high school students how many would stay in town or return after college, not a single hand went up. Volunteered their teacher: "They're not being...
...resident Dunster House tutor and extension school instructor praised as a dedicated teacher died March 11 at Stillman Infirmary at Holyoke Center, of AIDS...
...teacher at the Boston Architectural Center and occasional lecturer for the Graduate School of Design, Marx earned the Award for Excellence in teaching from the architectural center...