Re: Hello from Carol (McGonigle) Jago

From: Hiram Gonash <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:16:35 -0000

Awesome! Any chance of us hearing something from Mrs. Shaver? I have
such great memories of her English class - "Are you Dean or Keith today?"

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Joy McCann"
<joy.mccann_at_...> wrote:
>
> 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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>
Received on 2008-10-08 18:16:36