Hello from Carol (McGonigle) Jago

From: Joy McCann <joy.mccann_at_gmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:02:37 -0700

Sez Carol:
"I really can't thank you enough for sending me all this information and
these links to OSO lives, Joy. Gives me goosebumps to see what everyone has
achieved. I confess I still think of you all as 10th graders writing poems
about the Odyssey. Or Sandy Levin as an eighth grader in a summer dance
class. I feel so fortunate to have been a small part of all you have become.
Truly, I am looking forward to being past-president of NCTE. The role is
mostly whank, but I get invited to do interesting work like the NEA forum.
And, yes, I will always push that rock up a hill - call me Ms. Sisyphus -
when it comes to reading."

* * *

I put together a sort of status list for her, based on the one I posted for
Bill; she was pretty stoked about it. She's no longer connected to Samo, but
remains good friends with Chris Shaver, to whom she forwarded my
note/update.

I had suggested that she stop encouraging literacy among today's youth's and
either promote something wholesome (e.g., heroin), or renumerative
(engineering/computer analysis/cleaning toilets). But you know that
generation; one cannot get through to them at all.

Anyway, I'm glad that she's proud of us. Somehow it makes a difference . . .

--J


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