I began teaching too many years ago at Miami Trace High School in Washington Court House, Ohio, where I had lived for three years with my vagabond always moving family. I taught college prep English and Theatre and directed the plays.  Although I could not stay for more than one year at Miami Trace  as I was living in a rooming house and sending all my money home to my mother and the four younger kids in the family; I needed to move back to the Columbus area and find a teaching job that paid more. However,  I loved that first year of teaching my seniors who were only four years younger than I was.  Last summer, some of my “kids” had a mini reunion a practice that has continued.  My kids have told me that I was the teacher who most touched their lives; this sentiment is worth more to me than all the wins in the dog show world.  I am honored to have touched  the lives of some of the finest and most successful adults I know.  I would love to go back and do it all over again.  Instead of going into secondary administration, I went into elementary as I hate football and basketball and high school principals must go to all games while I wanted to go to dog shows!

I am in the middle, front row. 

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