Thanks, Mr. Sellers! We Miss You.
Mr Sellers was my eleventh grade English Lit teacher. Each grading period, he conducted one-on-one discussions with his students to review their grade for the quarter. I had worked hard, but I had a lot going on in my personal life and knew that I had not done the bestthat I could do in everything. It was hard time. Mr Sellers sat down with me and said he was disappointed in my grade for his class -- I had earned "only" a B+. He explained that he knew I was capable of better work and he insisted that I prove it to him in the next quarter. For the entire length of that quarter, Mr Sellers pushed me, questioned me, gave me opportunities to do a little better on each assignment. The "A" that I earned in his class was the one "A" on all of my eleventh grade report cards. It was also the single grade for which I was most proud. That was forty years ago. Ten years ago, I completed my Master's Degree with a 4.0 GPA. And I will never forget what Mr Sellers told me, "I am capable of better work than what I had settled for".
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