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" [ TEACH at a school where yes 0 f P i Bet a Phi Winter-1996 ma'am' and 'no ma'am' are heard frequently. I teach at a school where white and black students call each other friend an eat together in the cafeteria. I e a C at a school where ifyou are absent, someone in the class is related to you. I at a school where • t a I supplies are not brand new and neither are my students' clothes. I tea ch at a school where students come to learn and be disciplined. [ at a school where you really learn to love your students. , , -Laurie Ramsey V\ralker. Tennc~see Gamn1cl Pi Phis who IlliNOIS Au>HA J EAN EGMO jeanie serves as assistant dean of the School of D """" _ "",-,,,I E Education and Social Policy at orthwestern University. As a nontra jeanie has been chosen as a mem cared about her. Then one morning the ditional school of education, the school ber of Northwestern's Associated phone rang at 6:30. It was Tanya's defines education broadly and looks at Student Government Faculty Honor mother. She said, "You don't need to all the different contexts in which learn Roll by the students of Northwestern come today. Tanya passed last night. " ing and education occur. and has twice been named Would I choose this profeSSion again? A graduate of Monmouth College, Northwestern's Outstanding Greek Yes . Would I recommend this profes jeanie had a double major in business Advisor. jeanie hopes what students sion? Yes, 1 would. administration and English. She also will take away from her class is "not holds a master's degree in labor and only the method and the content but P ENNSYLVANIA EPSILON industrial relations from the University also the joy and the passion of lifelong CRISTA MEYER ZIEGLER of Illinois. Having completed course learning as one of the greatest gifts of After selling advertising work for her doctoral degree, jeanie will the human experience." space for a year, 1 went complete her dissertation this year. back to school to earn a As associate dean,]eanie is respon TEXAS B UA MAIrrHA master's degree in educa sible for all of the services that affect BROOKS lANHAM tion. My career goal had the graduate and undergraduate stu (}) For almost three decades been to become a corporate recruiter dents. She teaches courses in learning H~EB I taught homebound and trainer. But after more than a year and organizational change, and leads STU children with all levels of in the "corporate culture," I was hearti research and seminar groups interested physical and medical ly sick of my membership. When I took in issues of the changing workplace and problems. Each child was stock, I found that my needs were the the role and design of learning in the a unique package of emotional, physi same. 1 now "pitch" my kids selling, workplace. cal and educational needs. Tanya was a them on a new behavior or skill. 1 "get jeanie credits her role as chapter happy little girl. Her missing leg was the sale" at all costs whatever it takes to president in providing the basis for her just a mild inconvenience to her. She, get the concept through, be it dressing professional and research interest. She at eight, was not bogged down in the up in a moose hat or crawling through recalls the first time she used a details of bone cancer. Her leg was desk tunnels. The world will never miss metaphor in a chapter meeting to help gone, but her spirit was strong. When I another three column, full-color display the members understand the need for a arrived for class, she was always sitting ad. But one more child learning to particular change. Although she had no at the dining room table, ready for class read, or singing a song, or solving a idea at the time that these strategies with books, paper and pencils well problem, would truly be missed. Often had a name or why they worked, she organized. We would read, do math, I'm asked, "Why special ed.?" or "Isn't continued to use the metaphors and science, write and play some games. that a difficult group to teach?" Frankly other cognitive strategies in her Pi Phi Her academic progress was impressive. yes. Working with children with autism leadership. Fifteen years later, they are Tanya received regular chemotherapy is exhausting, and challenging, and dif the theoretical basis for her dissertation and at times, her mother would call to ficult. It can also be heart-lifting, frus research that looks at leadership and say, "Tanya is in the hospital, so you do trating, emotional, joyous and learning strategies that help organiza not need to come today." Often, I discouraging. "All children have some tions successfully undergo massive would stop by the hospital just to give thing to say when you listen with your change. her a touch and tell her how much I heart. " Wintey o 1996 Volume 113-Number 2 Forty-five Pi Phi educa- 2 tors share their teaching experiences. Pi Beta Phi 25 Foundation's Update &: Honor Roll of Donors The installation of 66 California Mu at Pepperdine University marks the Fraternity's DOth chapter. Convention 1997 84 "Pi Phi on My Mind" , Departments ., From the Editor ......... ...... I 0 From the Reader ......... ...... I I Links to Literacy ............... I 2 News from Arrowmont ......... 13 Foundation ...... ............ 16 Alumnae News ......... ..... 20 Holt House . .. ... ... .. .... ... 65 Collegiate News ..... .. ... .... .67 Academic Excellence .... .. ...... 72 Directions . .74 Fraternity Directory ..... ...... 76 In Memoriam ................. 78 Pi Phi Express ......... ...... .8 1 Fraternity ews &: otes ........ .8 2 Winter " 1 996 FrOID principal to ballet instructor, 45 Pi Phis illustrate how they teach. MISSOURI ALPHA GAY IOWA BETA PHYlliS OREGON BETA PATIY KuPPSIl!N U11IROP HICKMAN HOWLETT HAMMOND REillY For the past 22 years I For the past IS years I I graduated from L have taught reading and have worked as Assistant Oregon State University social studies to children Commissioner of the Big in 1968 with a master's in Raytown, Missouri. Ten Conference. I cur degree in home eco- Currently, I am a reading rently serve as the second nomics education, and tutor in an elementaty school. I felt like ranking officer in the NCAA and in that headed up Interstate 5 for a teaching I had "arrived" in my profession when capacity have had the opponunity to position in Lake Oswego. My plan was one of my students wrote a note saying, enhance the prospect for women as to teach for a few years. Those "few "Mrs . Lathrop, You are the beast athletes. Competitive opportunities for years" stretched into 28. Home teacher I have ever had! " During my women have exploded and public Economics became Family and years of teaching, I received many notes awareness has started to catch up with Consumer Studies; boys are just as like from my students that have helped me what has been happening on our cam ly to be found in my classroom as girls; understand and teach that individual. puses. When I graduated from Simpson and the mimeograph machine, thank Some are humorous and some are sad, College in 1954 I had never seen a fully, has been replaced by the but each is speCial. " ... Please help us woman coach an intercollegiate team; computer. threw the bad times and maby even seen a woman compete against another threw the good. You might even want collegiate woman; seen a woman oper TEXAS ETA KEu KINSEUA to help us threw the day." by JuUi M. ate an athletics program or officiate a I teach for Cherry Creek What a wonderful journey I've had so collegiate competition. It has taken School District near G far! years to get there, but it is happening _ Denver, Colorado at and young women across the country Peakview Elementary IlllNOIS THETA DR. are the benefactors. School. Peakview opened CHRISTINE ROllI five years ago to create a different look NORVEll CONNECTICUT ALPHA for public education. The school is a G Christie is prinCipal of ANNE VARRONE multi-aged, year-round school with an Pacific School in I teach students in grades emphasis on technology. Multi-aging o Manhattan Beach, 6-8 Spanish at Moran places children of various ages in the California. She speaks Middle School in same classroom. The basic premise on children's issues, parenting issues, Wallingford, Connecticut. diSCipline in the home, building self My goal is to get students esteem in children and kindergarten enthusiastic about learning language. I readiness. She is a mentor teacher and work with two stuffed dolls. I give eye does demonstration lessons throughout exams to students while they practice the community to improve teacher the Spanish alphabet. We review num instruction. After Christie was diag bers by listing the scores from the NFL. nosed with breast cancer, she felt it was I videotape weather reports, show important that "her children" at school Disney movies in Spanish, teach the be informed of her illness in a learning Macarena while reviewing body vocabu and positive way. To accomplish this, lary, make clotheslines, pack my suit she wrote a poem geared towards chil case and end the year with an dren. As a result, Christie was fea tured imaginary trip to Spain. I go home in an investigative report, "Mammo completely exhausted but totally happy graphy: The Deadly Deceit," on CBS . each day. Wint e r o 1996 behind multi-aging is that learners do FLORI DA B ETA Pi Phis who not simply acquire information at only B ARBARA E ISSEY one level.