Sunday, August 13, 2023
I can still hear those high heels clicking down the hall at the newly designated 6th grade melting pot, William R. Bowie Grade School. Miss Chupil was a force I had never before encountered. To a rather slow-on-the-uptake introverted school phobic, she was a terrifying personage. Demanding, but fair and so caring. The first of those precious few educators encountered in one’s lifetime whose imprint stuck. (I have always remembered to say “thank you” before leaving the bus when someone has taken me on a class trip to the nation’s capitol...) Of course, by school end, the best. A unique individual that shaped me well beyond history, writing, and arithmetic and the first of sadly, few, to demand critical thinking. I am forever grateful.
