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Rich Rykowski

I've always considered Mr. Albaitis as my favorite teacher through "ALL" of school. I had him for history in the 1972-73 school year in 8th grade at the junior high school. Hard to believe that as a 14 year-old with an attention span of 3 minutes I would end up in the classroom of a teacher that would leave an impact on my life such as he did!!! I remember when we got to the world war two period of the school year. He was one of the most captivating speakers I had ever heard!! He had a "passion" like no one I'd ever met in trying to instill in us youg kids the importance of the sacrifices that americans made to see ourselves through a hard time in our history as well as the horrors of how terrible war really was! I recall the day when he was in one of his heated discussions and two kids were in the back of the room talking to each other and he "WHIPPED" the piece of chalk he was holding right at them and took both of them out for not listening!!! ( do that nowadays and see what would happen! ) I remember at lunch in the cafeteria how we would all try to compare who had the ugliest socks on!!! He'd put his foot up on a chair and he'd say "GO" and we all pulled up our pant leg to see who had on the ugliest argyle or funny socks and then laugh our asses off! Life is short and I wish I could have talked with him again in these latter years in life.But, unfortunately, life is madness and seems to travel at a break neck speed. I'll never forget him!!! He was the last of a breed of teachers who actually made a differenc in his student's lives!!! Godspeed Mr. A!!! See you when I get there!!!
Thursday May 9, 2013 at 9:12 pm
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