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mitsuye conoverbartlesville, ok | YEARS TAUGHT: 1965 - PresentMitsuye transforms a normal classroom into a stimulating interactive environment in which students connect the concepts of history to their personal lives and prior knowledge base. Mitsuye involves her students in stimulating dialogue, role play, debate, dramatization, research, and writing. The students internalize the concepts that have been taught, and it genuinely becomes their own learning. Her commitment to students is reflected by the creation of the Sean David Conover Charitable Scholarship Foundation which Mitsuye and her husband established after their only child was killed by a drunk driver.
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ronald foresoparsippany, nj | YEARS TAUGHT: 1974 - PresentTeaching by precept and example (as few truly do), Ronald inculcates in his students the knowledge that only through service to others do we make a difference. Only in service to others do we understand the real meaning of a liberal arts education. As a teacher, Mr. Foreso’s greatest virtue is that all of his virtues are contagious. He teaches not by rote, but by example. Mr. Foreso commands the utmost respect because of the respect he gives his students. His passions become his students’ passions.
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emeil hamberlinchicago, il | Years Taught: 1964 - PresentEmiel has always used his teaching skills to develop small businesses and business enterprises. He and his students developed a landscaping club where students were actually paid for producing public and private landscapes throughout the city. They have sold balloon arrangements, mother’s day plants, flowers for the prom, and many other gift items from their Ornamental Horticulture Program. He and his students developed an award winning Urban Ecology Sanctuary where they studied, maintained, and housed various animals, numerous plant life, and unique ecosystems all within an enclosed courtyard on their high school campus.
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ellen kemplermiami, fl | Years Taught: 1966 - 2001Ellen wrote that ‘Life is a huge relay race, I am alive and carrying the baton now. The future depends on me as surely as my generation depended on our teachers and their teachers and their teachers.’ Kempler and others began MicroBusiness USA which provides small loans to people who would never qualify for commercial loans so that they may become self-sufficient and have their dignity restored. The program has provided more than $1 million in loans to more than 1,000 borrowers with a 95% repayment rate. As a sponsor of the National Honor Society this year, she and her students wrapped 67 individually wrapped Christmas presents for the Children’s Home Society for abused and neglected children.
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james quinlanvernon, nj | Years Taught: 1976 - presentJames is a facilitator for Project Quest, an adventure-based counseling program with its origins in Outward Bound, for students in need of a personal growth experience. To meet the challenge of teaching neurologically impaired students, Quinlan created the Roaring Lion Chair Company, a student operated enterprise that manufactures Adirondack chairs and markets them throughout the tri-state area. Emphasis is placed upon developing marketable work skills and attitudes including staying on task, safety, appropriate behavior, and responsibility. About the stereotype of “vocational education, Quinlan states, “Yes, of course they’re using their hands, but they’re working with their minds.”
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