OPINIONS Teachers will always have aprofoundimpactonour lives

It’s been four decades since Igraduated high school. Those days of gym class, spelling tests, pizza day at lunch, baseball practice, reading “The Outsiders” and “The Red Badge of Courage,” term papers and school dances remain, mostly, fond memories.

That’s why when my boss John Rung, president and CEO of Shaw Media, suggested today’s Thank You, Teachers project, Iwas excited.

Looking back all those years ago, Iremember certain classrooms, where Isat, making sure my pencil was sharpened just right, and, most of all, the teachers. Itried an exercise of recalling each teacher in my mind as Imoved from grade to grade up to high school. Imight not have remembered each teacher’s name, but Icould recall their smile.

Ithought about Miss Golden, my fifth grade teacher at John Mills School in Elmwood Park, who over the years had my brother, sister and me in her