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
Her maiden name was Frank. I had her for a semester. She had previously struck me as being very tense. After the summer vacation, she announced that her name was Mrs. Applebaum and she was much more relaxed and happy.
Peter Millheiser, 53’