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hlc}try Jr.1 f3attrt; Who r trrttW in hnr rtj r„t5 �tu,a tr�urlt- Ile the taiv ,Vc ho of this week to clean her CluManr�r,,, aid
itkir fit file Ithaca ( l*M ."X)l I. vtri(y. tt+tillm,►I to F Irte ld f nald te,�e�t/•t,it?t),e„eleW fry,sur„ner tc{ux4stuclr, 4,
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Retiring teacher recalls the learning
that matters most ,
J MIAAKMET CtAIBORNE sion i� „
�Y it! ,m of tcilehers, said dramatic tuontrnts, she Coll-
Ithaca Teachers Association fessed, 111offle
l MAC'k ----� T�ir,t-grade President Susan Mitticr, For "We were studyingvcrtr-
teacher Merry 10 Bauer .tt in it the past IU years, 13auer has prates its part of file second- ■Name: Morry Jo Bait
Town of Drvden courtroom hecn chitim-ontan of the I`I'A's grade science curriculum A
■Age: 62 ;. .
several sutnnters tilt) as two membership committee, child brought in the skull and
"working for teachers' well- backlxme of a deer he'd frond ■ Birthplace: Milwau- �.
Ithaca t1igh Schoot�studt.ttts Ff _
ee•rty arruigned after a uimmer Wing, ;is she guts it. in it field, which was wonderful. kee, Wis•; grew up in Indl- i ,
st-Mil fight. But though 13tiurr is known We left it cm the rug(m F"iday, Hne and Connecticut
fvr her low-key activism in the On Monday, we found the rug,
She was attending to stu- ■ Education: Bachelor's
IC'SD, silt silid her �atcst joy a�v�rrrd with maggots, We had
dents far alder than those she rc , degree In sociology and
t;tu ht In the cl;tssroom, and has been teaching, the children to call the luurnts and let them 9 gy
i y � of 1�all Creek and Enfield rle- know what hal+l)ettcd• Onc� tar- psychology at the Univer-
i they were not tr��lu 1:nficld mentim, sclikvis whcrr stir has ent even complained to the slty of Connecticut at
tieluvl,where she w,ts a tacultr° 1><en ki kindergarten, lint- and sulxrintendcnt. Storrs; teaching creden-
mrinher. She was there, she: sceond-grade teacher for the "But it wits it wonderful tlals from South Connecti-
C\plaltied, as pow t cif her \vork
tutat Zliyr3an, learning experience, the chit- cut State College and the
it% a meniber of th Coa
lition oalition in .June, the h_'-year old dren were fusci"illed,"she said,
Im Children blest-lbws I�i cC , , � � University Of Virginia.
r Shctvo�l:, itrn ad ho c I rtinih thin teacher and mother of four renicmbe ing, the lesson on
-s retired, In an interview Friday, decomn4Iosition and small
Civil-(or etlliit in educa- Hauer considered her career, tures' Important 11111ce in the }� ,
lion in the lthae:t 6tv School both in and out of the Class- ovc�ritll scheme of things, teachers to form the district ,
1)i,tir�t. firs) multieultur;tl education
nx,m,and when' stir hopes the '17ie teaching; of reading was W1111uillce in the 080's,
I'liat bruadrr concern has sch(v i district will inove next, also a good Umc for teaching
I+ccll typli al of Bauer dur1119 "Two of the subjects 1 Children about other cultures, ` Ilc\ worked with the late
the `n ware She's iven a niem- en oticd teaching; the must were something; centrally important Ile\elh� .1. Martin, who at that
Nk i tit the ltlim,i Cite School science and Iiterattire," she to their educations, slit, said, lieu ee;►s ditrctor of the C?tttcv
Uistr o t. Sf1r' tt.is a nieillivi. of of Aftirttultive elation.
said. 'When i beg,att teaching, tit
the• district's first ntultio Ill uI'll Science is especially fun to mall Creek in 1972, it was Thitt activity led to t3uuo:r
educalio>n committee and tut trac'h to young children raihrr niono-cultural," she: b conilltg a nlclltlwx of the k %%
cuiir'l� r�tthrr off its rltfirnr,ttivt✓ Atfu�mutivr �'��ti„++ �-`'c`•-
t►reause� it makes them aware. iemernlvred, Irict's
A4'tK1tr t:.i?rTr11i1tICc`. of thins ill their +yorld, same- it was seeing; that aced and mitten. ,►+` WOW
"Shic' has also workt-d chili- antes feu'the GrNt finie she said. \%main � to learn how to meet it '1"his Post yc>►r'
'tith' fit to mo>ty tire' 7rof t- Tv. �h• s i v s 1h,i1 Iv�cl ti,turr J"W a few ()ttl r 01airM MU01 of ct1� `•"►,o+► �
r l e, c ie ,ne, ,creiicc did have ,t.