Retirement
I see in the WDN that senior high English teacher Jim Miller is retiring. I had Jim for 8th grade and again in the high school -- advanced comp, I remember, I'm not sure if there was another class there or not. I also substituted for Jim a number of times when I was subbing in the Winona school district. In fact, Jim used to request me when he knew he was going to be gone. Jim was kind of an inspiration to me and one of the reasons I became an English teacher.
posted by Kootch @ 6:07 PM
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Stoltman, Mike Russell, Anita Johnson, and I all sat together, and he didn't actually hit us. That didn't seem inspiring then, but it does now. And I still encounter "Jimmy Miller" words:
imminent, eminent, immanent.
Let's see if I can do this from memory: impending, distinguished, precipitated.
Am I right?
I'm not sure I ever had him for a teacher. If I did, it wasn't memorable.
Funny how we each have our mentors. I do remember a junior high English teacher by the name of David Clay who was very supportive of my writing back in the J. High days.
I had ("young"--as opposed to "old", who has already retired) Jimmy Miller twice. Pretty good guy. I'd call him steady and a decent teacher. When I had him in 7th grade, I also had in my class Todd Feehan, Steve Olness, Bob Buege, Johnny Stoltz and a few other assorted characters. On the other side of the coin, Glenn Warnken and Kenny Schossow were in that class. I remember one day one JM grabbed Todd Feehan by his long hair and shook his head over a wastebasket to get him to spit his gum out.
I also had him for Senior (Advanced Composition?) English. Wasn't that the class with Christy Anderson and "Precocious"? I remeber pulling my first all nighter here to finish my research paper.
Okay, now someone's going to have to tell me what the "precocious" comment was -- it sounds familiar, but I don't remember.
By the way, Bo, Kenny Schossow is like my second cousin or something.
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