Amazing news! Rosamond Sleigh, the high school English teacher who rocked my world (and many others'), is alive and well - at ninety-seven! She's in assisted living but apparently as sharp as ever. (I learned all this because an ex-student some years my senior has been close to her all these years and set up a GoFundMe campaign to make sure she could continute to pay her bills.) I wrote about this in every sense larger-than-life educator in this blog some years ago, after a conversation with a master teacher about master teachers I've known: she's been a point of reference for me for four decades! It's really wonderful to see the cascade of tributes as other students from her half century of teaching attest to the way she's changed all our lives.
