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Tempe High School Class of 1969 - Mr. Dee?

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Body:	<i>Mr. Dee just had an effect on me, he was an amazing composition teacher (darn - there I go using the passive case...). The brain cells worked overtime while in his class. I visited him after graduating, as did apparently many of you. He even sent me a brief note from California after he moved, which I cherished for decades. I always said that if I ever became a teacher I'd make a point of emulating the really good ones that I had (from K all the way through grad. school). & I didn't overlook Ms. Finley or Sister Sarah at Mt. Carmel, either. Remember when Mr. Wells used to say, 'This is Chemistry' (his point being, don't expect this to be easy)? Well, you should hear me now go on about economics.... One thing my students remark about is enthusiasm for my subject, and respect for the students as individuals. Those things meant a lot to me in the faculty that I had, and they still do to students today. I'm convinced that such an atmosphere leads to them retaining the content (not to mention all of the biases that I cleverly insert here and there...). I only spent a semester in Ms. Divinney's accelerated Freshman E class - just wasn't ready for advanced at that point, but at ASU I got my English requirement out of the way in a one-semester Accel. E class while still a high school student. The novel we studied was John Updike's 'Poorhouse Fair.' Who knew that decades later Updike (I've read everything he wrote) would have become the US's premier man of letters. He wrote that novel at age 26, far beyond his years. I'm almost embarressed to say what I wrote my term paper on in that class -- Coaching basketball! It was all I knew, I guess (and that would bring me to Sam Duane, whose pic I've att. here - when he was at Corona HS).</i> *
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