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As one of the "spies" cited in Susan's email, I want to confirm that Barbara
Markham and Robert Gabrick were terrific in presenting on LOC at the recent
OAH convention. I thought that I knew the site fairly well, but, boy, did I
ever learn a lot. And I got to view their lesson plan close up, too, which
I hadn't done in the past. Shame on me, but not any more: I am going to use
that thing in my classes next school year, for certain. Furthermore, Barbara
and Robert flushed Patricia Molen Van Ee, from the LOC's Map division, out
of the audience to do a quickie demonstration on how to find and use the
wonderful maps present in the collection. That just blew me away, too. And
Patricia has promised me a special tour in July when I am in DC for the
Fellows' institute. During that same session they even persuaded me
(another "ringer" in the audience) to show my Jackie Robinson lesson plan
from the site. The session was indeed very well-attended, and received so
enthusiastically. I was one of the people who would just not let Robert and
Barbara go without exchanging email addresses, experiences as Fellows,
experiences in completing lesson plans, and so on. One woman from the
audience even asked Barbara and Robert whether they had been granted a year
off from teaching in order to do the lesson plan! Don't we wish. But that
shows how excellent their work is: it looks look a year's worth of full-time
work from each of them while doing nothing else.
The LOC is so well represented by its Fellows and staff members at these
conventions; it's a pleasure and honor to count myself among that group.
And you would simply not believe how people (colleagues) view you, as if you
were wearing a halo, when they discover that you are a Fellow. Great work,
Robert, Barbara, and Patricia.
Arnold Pulda
'98 (and, soon, '01)
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> Take a bow, Barbara Markham and Robert Gabrick!
>
> You all remember when as parents and teachers, we are accused of having
> eyes in the back of our heads. Well, here at LC we have not only
> weird-looking heads, but spies in the field. Yes, it is true!
>
> We have heard back from David Vigilante and Arnold Pulda that Barbara and
> Robert were OUTSTANDING at the recent OAH meeting in LA last week. They
> both said that Barbara and Robert virtually had to be pushed out of the
> room by the hotel clean-up crew because there were so many people wanting
> to talk more and more and more! Not only did they have "lingering
guests",
> but they drew a large crowd in spite of tough competition from over 15
> concurrent sessions and a tour bus to the Getty Museum!
>
> So, "Thank you, Thank you!" to Barbara and Robert and also to all of you
> out there who continue to do great things that we don't always know about.
>
> David also notes that the OAH meets at the Renaissance Hotel in
Washington,
> DC, April 11-14, 2002. He says it is too late to submit a program for the
> general conference but there is still time to get on the Focus on Teaching
> program. Perhaps we can get more information on this from the OAH
website...
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