mary rochat

From: Susan Rochat[grammsue@yahoo.com]

Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 S:47 pM

To: mary rochat

Cc: Susan Rochat; Roger Rochat

Subject: A Farewell to Shirley, with many thanks

Shirley, dear Shirley, oh what can we say,

Decades of teaching your patience displayed

Adolescents to Seniors you graciously taught

To write essays with punctuation carefully fraught!

With kind gentle spirit, diligently you sifted

Their stumbling and bumbling to words that were gifted.

Your students now know how to write. thanks to you

They love and admire your grit to push through

Obstacles that most would just throw in the towel

You hung in there, determined to watch every vowel.

To turn on the lights in their hearts and their minds

With beautiful words lessen the world's daily grind.

Thank you, Ms. Shirley, your inspiration is like gold

A beautiful gift for all students, the young and the old.

Susan Rochat, May 18, 2009

6/9/2009