Re: What's the curriculum like now? (Was Re: Teachers of the past)

On Wednesday, February 21, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Abenr wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (Eugene Holman) writes:
> >In article <[email protected]>,
> >[email protected] (Peter Shenkin) wrote:
> >atk.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Then, senior year, I had Mrs. Applebaum, who
> >> was very sweet and a good teacher. In a lot of ways, though, I think
> >> I was too young to get the most out of Science. (I had just turned
> >> 16 when I graduated.) Then again, as Shaw commented, youth is
> >> (always) wasted on those too young to appreciated it.
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >Yes, Mrs. Appelbaum was my senior year English teacher as well. Although
> I
> >agree with your assessment of her as 'sweet and a good teacher', what I
> >remember best about her is her unppretentious elegance. She was probably
> >sixty years old, but unlike most of the other teachers at Science, she
> had
> >an undefinable 'class': she was well dressed, spoke in a carefully
> >modulated, well enunciated non-New York type of English, and never seemed
> >to lose her patience.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Eugene Holman '62
> I recall a *young* Mrs Applebaum, who was not yet married when she first
> taught me, but married when I became a senior. If my memories are
> correct, very doubtful these days, can anyone come up with her maiden
> name?
> Aben Rudy, '53