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From: Mary Ann Gilpatrick <MGilpatrick>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:43:39 -0700
You all have reminded me of one of the most delightful things that happened to me in college:
Last class before break, my honors English teacher came in with a basket of cookies, and *Child's Christmas in Wales.* I have read it to myself and others every Christmas since. (and recommended it for any number of club ladies looking for something to read at their December meeting.) And thank you, Agnes O'Donnell, wherever you might be, for James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and innumerable others.
Mary Ann Gilpatrick
Walla Walla Public Library
mgilpatrick at ci.walla-walla.wa.us
FAX: 509R7748
phone: 509R7E50 x 510
I do not teach college, but I vividly remember the three teachers in college who read aloud. Two names are familiar to you here: Patricia MacLachlan and Jane Yolen, who taught the children's literature class at my college. They read from all sorts of books, from picture books to lengthy novels. One other teacher, Johnella Butler, taught Afro-American Studies. (that's what it was called, way back when) She read poetry and lots of short stories. I am sure she would be surprised to know that I remember every detail of "Raymond's Run," a short story by Toni Cade Bambera, which she read in rich dialect, full of emotion. I remember the names of almost none of my college professors, but I can never forget Ms. Butler.
A few days back, Brian Fahey said that whatever he loved, his students loved. That's exactly true.
Received on Tue 24 Aug 2004 03:43:39 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:43:39 -0700
You all have reminded me of one of the most delightful things that happened to me in college:
Last class before break, my honors English teacher came in with a basket of cookies, and *Child's Christmas in Wales.* I have read it to myself and others every Christmas since. (and recommended it for any number of club ladies looking for something to read at their December meeting.) And thank you, Agnes O'Donnell, wherever you might be, for James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and innumerable others.
Mary Ann Gilpatrick
Walla Walla Public Library
mgilpatrick at ci.walla-walla.wa.us
FAX: 509R7748
phone: 509R7E50 x 510
I do not teach college, but I vividly remember the three teachers in college who read aloud. Two names are familiar to you here: Patricia MacLachlan and Jane Yolen, who taught the children's literature class at my college. They read from all sorts of books, from picture books to lengthy novels. One other teacher, Johnella Butler, taught Afro-American Studies. (that's what it was called, way back when) She read poetry and lots of short stories. I am sure she would be surprised to know that I remember every detail of "Raymond's Run," a short story by Toni Cade Bambera, which she read in rich dialect, full of emotion. I remember the names of almost none of my college professors, but I can never forget Ms. Butler.
A few days back, Brian Fahey said that whatever he loved, his students loved. That's exactly true.
Received on Tue 24 Aug 2004 03:43:39 PM CDT
