How many teachers stand out in your memories from school?

Oh gosh, there are so many! BUT to name the 2 most prominent on either side of the coin...

Mr. Kriefall- HS orchestra, for showing me I really could play the violin. The only one who ever recorded me without my knowledge, then played it to the class and asked who it was. Everyone knew it was me playing but ME! I always thought I sounded like crap.

Mr. Hemp (Yes, that was really his name) - 11th grade physics, for kicking me out of class and giving me a "D" (The only one I EVER got) because I kept insisting that 1+1 DID NOT equal 3.....I'll argue it to this day! And ya know what my dad said to me? He said "Sherine, one of these days your mouth is going to get you into big trouble!" Up until that point I was going to become a lawyer....In hindsight, maybe I should thank him too!

Mrs. Wright - 4th grade. She made a big deal of me writing little rhymes. She is probably the second biggest reason I write today.

Mrs. Box - 7th grade English. She got me in big trouble when she called my mother to the school. She told mother I had a million dollar brain, and mama got proud, the she said that I used it like a $1.98 bargain basement special, and it was hard to sit for a couple of days.

Mrs. Southerland - 8th rade English. She was a total riot and threw chalkboard erasers at students. Very memorable woman.

Mrs. Smith - Art teacher. Had a major crush on her for years, even after graduating.

Miss Rapp - 9th grade English. Her dress fell down once when she reached for something on the top shelf and the thin strap came loose. A memorable occassion, as it was her first year as a teacher, and she was gorgeous, even without a dress.

Mrs. Conner - Bookkeeping and typing. Really sweet lady

And one girl who was not a teacher, but taught me a valuable lesson. When playing chess against a gorgeous redhead, concentrate on the game, not the player or you will get beat in 3 moves, and that is not cool in the final game of the tournement.

There were only 5

Sister Mary Elizabeth 4th 5th & 6th English

Mr Ballisterrie >>>10th English

Mr Gordon>>>10th Mechanical Drawing

Mr Salerno>>> Carpentry 10th vo-tech

Mr Schumm>> Buisness St Peters Collage

They ALL made an impression on me

Most of mine were English teachers...suprise..suprise

7th grade English teacher that I met only once. She decided I was not learning disabled and kicked me out of her class into main stream. I'll never forget her words. "You don't belong here take this to you counselor".

High school English Teacher...friend to all students good or bad. She was funny, loving, and patient and I wish I could remember her name.

High school PE Teacher. Mrs. Paris. She was in her 80's believe it or not, but she could run circles around us brats. My mother had her for PE too which was totally cool. Mrs. Paris told me some stories that I had a lot of fun retelling to my mother. ;)

University, Comp I and II teacher named Mrs. Keller. She is the reason I write today. She focused only on the good and let the bad slide until she had sufficiently built up our self esteem. An excellent teacher who taught me how to "not" use a comma. This teacher once introduced me to a grad. student of hers. She said I was a fabulous writer. From that moment on, I was hooked.

Yes, all were articulate and curious.

Good teachers can and do change lives.

Mr Mandrea, when I was 14-15. French literature. He was also a singer and an actor. He made me realize how much I loved literature. I really started writing then. He used to do a concert once a year, and we would all go by coach...

There was also the music teacher. I can't remember her name, only her nickname (Tata Yoyo...silly). She had white pointed boots that fascinated us and she taught us how to distinguish Liszt from Chopin... I had her for four years.

The first thing that popped to mind was when I was going to band and had to go down a set of stairs. I was in a hurry, since I was running a little late so I didn't go downstairs in the tradtitional manner. I lost my footing and flew down the first flight. I missed hitting all the steps but landed at the bottom like I was ready to serve some tea in a Japanese cermony. The lucky thing was nothing was hurt and there weren't any witnesses to speak of!

Mrs. Gibson, 1st grade, really loved us as children and we knew it.

Mrs. Simms, 2nd grade, made us want to learn by being so interesting and speaking in a way we could understand.

Mr. Strane, Spanish 1, played Spanish guitar and sang to us. Made us want to learn the words.

Mr. Ciffrodelli, Spanish 2, was funny and interesting. Dressed to kill and the girls loved him.

My Hanauer, taught Constitutionalism vs. Communism, was a WW2 vet and was fascinating.

Never forget any of them!

My fifth grade teacher (at the age of ten, I considered murdering her)

My senior year art teacher (taught me everything I know about most other subject areas ... was a wonderful person who became a family friend)

I had my 2nd grade teacher Mrs.Byrd as she was awesome and so cool.The other was the art teacher who was a hippie miss Devissio, and she was so cool.She taught us that being different was ok and not a bad thing..Surprising i can even remember that far and with name too Wow lol

Miss Lancaster and Mr. Warner, Lanny because she taught math and Curly because we hunted together.

There were others but we don't want to be here all day.