QUOTE (pamvetter @ Nov 17 2008, 09:17 PM)
A beautiful tribute to my sister. I read this via the Internet in California today - and my extended family members and Diane's former students, who live far and wide, are forever grateful. Beautifully written, Mr. Pidgeon! A tribute to your dedication to the written word. As I sit here in tears and my mother is in tears back home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, we are smiling through our tears because someone cares enough to remember Diane one more time. We are forever grateful for your delightful descriptions with an honest depiction of her final chapter. Thank you to Donna Brady as well for your support during those final challenges. Cancer was not easy, but Diane lived her life with smiles, trying to make a difference in every breath she had left. A lesson to us all... Thank you again, Pam Meily Vetter
Dr. Meily was a teacher of Mine. I graduated in 1994. Man what a firecracker she was. I will never forget some of the things she taught us that had nothing to do with social studies.. Some of those things were If we rested our heads on our hands we were going to "cause wrinkles". Or if we weren't participating in class she would rush over to the windows and open them, because we were too warm I recall her saying that best learning temperature is 62 degrees. My favorite is when students were unruly she would make them do push ups in the middle of class, I recall a few times she had to get down and do a few push ups to show the students how to do them correctly.
There are two teachers I talk about most and my mom tells me that's because they have impacted my life the most. Unfortunately, Both have fallen victims of Cancer.
One teacher's name was Mr. Hitchcock and he taught at Lincoln Jr. High in Lancaster. I loved that man and I remember seeing him often at Kmart and he always hugged me and asked how my kids were.
The other was Dr. Meily, unfortunately I left Penn Manor and hadn't been back since. I struggled in High School and she never gave up on me. She was absolutely a wonderful teacher and I'm fortunate to say she taught me in 10th grade and again in 12th grade!
Mrs. Vetter please know that your sister was/is an Angel and greatly missed.
