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November,
2001 Notes of Interest to COE Alumni and Friends
Archived
Alumni Notes
November
19, 2001
MANCINI
WINS NATIONAL AWARD
Mary Mancini `78, a special education teacher in the Flint
schools, was one of 39 educators in the United States and Canada to
receive one of the National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished
Teaching Achievement Awards this year.
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Sarah Rice Blair `24 celebrated her 105th birthday recently.
She taught from 1919 to 1960, spending most of her career in country
schools in the Ann Arbor area. She resides in Ann Arbor.
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Recent alumni deaths include: Helen M. Watts `31; Stanley
Babcock Smith `32; Ruth L. Clement Ruder `36, `55, `62;
Doris Elise Milliman `39; Mary Irene Bell `44; Ernest
W. Lennon `47; Thomas B. "Barne" Dyer `48;
Charles H. Lane `48; and Laura A. Bridges `50, `72.
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Brian Fullerton `66 is a cross-categorical special education
teacher in the Tucson district in Arizona. He recently completed
an additional master's degree.
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Janalyn Hale `78 is the newest member of the Ypsilanti District
Library Board. She retired from the Willow Run schools in 2000 after
31 years of teaching music and first grade.
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Grant Fischer `86 has taught art at Howell High School for
more than 30 years. One of his prints was displayed at the Tokyo
Museum of Art.
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Walter Miller `86 is coordinating the guest luncheon for
the Rose Bowl National Championship game in January. This is Miller's
15th year as a member of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses.
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Ruth Harvey `89 has taught life management courses for seven
years at Brighton High School. She formerly taught in Livonia and
Clarenceville.
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Suzanne Robbins `90 was awarded the Bloomfield Hills Distinguished
Service Award. She has been teaching since 1965, specializing in
persons for whom English is a second language.
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Jessica Revord `96 is in her second year of teaching at Lincoln
High School, where she teaches the yearbook class and 10th grade
English.
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Sheila Neils, an eighth-grade teacher of mathematics at Discovery
Middle School in the Plymouth-Canton district, was named "Teacher
of the Week" by the Detroit News. Neils is also a current student
in the master's program in educational technology.
November
5, 2001
In the Detroit News "teacher of the week"
feature for October 29, three county honorees were EMU alums. These
included:
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Wayne Teacher of the Week, Margie Lemkuhl,
Central Middle School (Plymouth-Canton), who teaches a group of
31 students from 11 countries, who speak, among them, 13 languages
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Oakland Teacher of the Week, Jim Cromie,
Hart Middle School (Rochester), a teacher of the seventh grade
who also coaches track
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Livingston Teacher of the Week, Marilyn Nielsen,
a third-grade teacher at Northwest Elementary (Howell). Neilsen's
master's degree is in learning disabilities.
Last
Modified on
May 4, 2002
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