Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer room when the introductory computer course became mandatory at Mendocino. They soon learned that in addition to zapping alien invaders, the machines could be used for composing music, creating posters and preparing letter-perfect homework. They were also prodded and then inspired by Kathi Griffen, their computer teacher, who made a special effort to encourage them. Says Griffen: "I'm trying to open the doors for girls so they can enjoy computers...
Spanish A teacher Maria L. Davila considers Drew one of her brightest students. "I find his interest admirable for a student. He takes it more as a personal challenge than a requisite that he is filling. He definitely has a different attitude than the other students...
...interested in India in large part because of a particular teacher I had at Cambridge. He seemed to be the only person studying something that was truly alive," Washbrook explains. "I was very bored with European kings and queens and all that stuff...
David took honors classes at high school, but it was extracurricular action that got his full attention. Early attempts at mainstream musicianship met with some resistance. He was rejected from the choir at Arbutus Junior High because, the teacher told his parents, David was "off-key and too withdrawn...
...best of both worlds: the sensuous, + imaginative life of Africa and a Western education, first at college in Ibadan near his village and then at the University of Leeds in Britain, where he earned a B.A. in English literature in 1957. After graduation he worked as a teacher and scriptwriter for London's Royal Court Theater, where some of his early sketches and short plays were performed...