Called To Teach: The Story of My Life
Science Teachers
from "Enfold Splendor"
Standing in the shadow of all
our yesterdays
We mold and shape tomorrow
in a myriad of ways:
By blending
futuristic dreams
With equations and conceptual
schemes;
By creating warmth and deep
respect
For those whose destiny we
help direct;
By teaching with sufficient
joy that will inspire
Each student to develop his
innate desire
To learn and grow that he may
never rest
Until he makes the search for
Truth his lifelong
quest.
Published, 1994
Copyright Elaine W. Ledbetter
Tyler Press, Tyler, Texas
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
click on underlined titles for complete
text within that chapter
Prologue
........................................................................................1
Chronology
....................................................................................3
One
Night the Telephone Rang ......................................................11
My Parents ...................................................................................
14
My Birth and Early Years .............................................................18
The Little Red Brick Schoolhouse ................................................24
The Great Depression ...................................................................30
Blackwell High School .................................................................32
A Few of My Favorite Hymns ......................................................36
Northern Oklahoma Junior College ..............................................37
The University of Oklahoma ........................................................43
The Sister Who Was Never There ...............................................49
First Year Teacher ......................................................................51
The Wildays ................................................................................56
Bill
..............................................................................................58
The Shidler Years .......................................................................60
The
McNatts ...............................................................................64
Bob's Barbecue ..........................................................................65
Our Move to Pampa ...................................................................67
The Effect of Sputnik 1 on Science Education
...........................69
The
Science Fair Years .............................................................70
American Field Service Students ..............................................75
Our Home at Skelly Schafer ......................................................78
Summer
Is My Season ...............................................................80
The National Science Teachers Association .............................82
The NSTA Christmas Trip ........................................................87
The Pampa High School Science Department ...........................89
Professional
Publications .........................................................92
Special Addison-Wesley Friends .............................................96
My
Major Hobbies ..................................................................98
My
Philosophy of Teaching .....................................................101
Awards
....................................................................................103
Gifts
I Treasure .......................................................................108
Some
Special Professionals ....................................................112
The
People Who Have Influenced Me Most ............................113
My
Church ...............................................................................116
The
Ronald Pearce Family ......................................................119
A
Note to My Students ............................................................121
The
Day I Would Like Most to Live Over ..............................122
A Litany of Thanksgiving ........................................................124
Epilogue
.................................................................................125
Appendix ................................................................................127
Note: Titles underlined
and listed in green above are reproduced
completely below. If there are significant requests
for details of any of the above
chapters, I will be happy to place them on this site.
Just let me know (Malcolm)
Elaine Ledbetter, at home on September 19,
1998
Other chapters will be added later, also depending
on which ones you would like to have.
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