Mr. Shaw's Stars 2009-2010

 What a great group of kids. You are my stars forever. Please keep in touch as you move through middle school, high school, and adulthood. I want to know how you are doing and what you are doing. 

Gleaning Facebook: Broadway Spectacular III

Put it on your calendar now:

Broadway Spectacular III 

June 25, 26, and 27, and July 2, 3, and 4, 2010

Desoto Theater on Broad Street in Rome GA

Promises to be a good production. In it I get to play bits of three of my dream roles from musical theater: 

Jean Valjean from Les Miserables (Bring Him Home); 

Thernardier from Les Miserables (Master of the House) and 

Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof (If I were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset). 

In addition I will play a (bearded!) Ben Franklin in two numbers from 1776 

(But Mr. Adams and The Egg) 

and sing a song from Aspects of Love (Love Changes Everything).

There will also be bits of Oklahoma, Cats, Man of La Mancha, and more. 

Y'all Come! 

Here's a link to an old post from 2006 about my favorite roles 

http://aloneonalimb.blogspot.com/.../dreaming-musical...

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Carol Shaw Johnston
I will plan to be there! You know I love to hear you sing "Bring Him Home."

Terrell Shaw
Thanks Carol!

Jim Ellington
Break a leg, Terrell!!! If there are others in this show, should we pack a lunch? LOL!

Naomi Liles Crouse
Hey - how do we get tickets? We'll be picking up kids from Glisson around those dates and could probably swing by. Les Miserables is one of my favorite musicals ever!

Lillian Shaw
Awesome! But I won't get to be there... : (

Ruth Baird Shaw
Wow...I"m getting to be a cry baby just thinking about your singing Bring Him Home at my request at my celebration party in Dalton in 1990. Will the Fourth of July fireworks and the Cook Out at your house be on July 3?

Joan Shaw Turrentine
Will they make a professional video or audio for purchase? I will be there, but I sure would buy a video or audio too if available.

Ruth Baird Shaw
It would be a good time to have anoter Roman Holiday???

Time Machine: Mr. Shaw's Stars of 2010

Posted to Facebook in May 2018

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It is graduation time again. Here are my Stars of 2010, many of whom will graduate tomorrow night. Sarah Echols was an outstanding student teacher. Creative and disciplined. Firm but caring.

As the end of the school year approached I decided to make my own class picture. We sat on the world's most substantial outdoor classroom benches and someone (was it Donna Brown maybe?) took the picture from the platform there. Sarah Echols was my outstanding student=teacher from Berry Collge that year. Later she was my co-worker at Arrowhead Environmental Education Centerfor over two years. Allien McNair was an "inclusion" teacher in my classroom, always looking for ways to make the learning experience better for these beloved young'n's. Feel free to tag if you are fb friends with any of these or their kin.

Joe Foss is a fine teacher and an enthusiastic and cooperative colleague. After I retired I worked with his wife's classes through Arrowhead.

 

Duane Conley has continued to work for our kids at AES to this day, and has coached the AES Young Naruralist team to a championship in 2017 and runner-up in 2018.

Another beloved colleague. I taught Andrea N David Moore's son and her old man David, well, I'll save the story for another day, but he will always be a bit of a hero to me!

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Andrea Moore

I told that STORY at Nature’s Classroom this year !!! 

Wendy Ramsey has joined me in retirement. She was a dedicated and effective teacher and colleague.

I learned much from many of my colleagues in the 44 years between 1969-2013, but few if any influenced my teaching as much as Ruth Pinson. Although I used the environment as a vital context for teaching from that first year, I had to meet Ruth and get involved in the EIC program to give research-based backing to that approach. What a lot I would have missed without her example. AND even in retirement, this year she helped coach the Johnson Elementary Young Naturalists who were tough competitors in our quiz bowl.

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Ruth Pinson
Thank you, Terrell! I always felt that our teaching was a team effort and you made it so much fun. Love you!

Marilyn Murdock McLean
I learned much from Ruth as well. Blessed to be a co-worker:)

Ruth Pinson
I was the one blessed. To be your co- teacher as well as bff has been such a gift in my life. 

Jaki Day
Ditto...I learned much from you both. Ruth Pinson Terrell Shaw

Ruth Pinson
Jaki, what would I have done without your comraderie? Love you!

Jaki Day
And I love you too, Ruth Pinson 

Jane Cox Slickman
What a lovely post!

Ruth Pinson
It was a beautiful surprise today!

Ruth Pinson
Loved this class!!

Ruthy Countryman
Best teacher Sarah Countryman ever had!

Ruth Pinson
Thank you!

Beth Cox
What awesome comments on an awesome teacher! Miss those days at AES!

Kristi Roberts Taylor was one of my AES colleagues from almost the beginning. She mostly taught third grade but I got to teach across the hall from her a couple or three years in fourth grade. She joined the EIC program with us and since my retirement has organized Arrowhead activities for her grade level several times. Of course she was just a kid when I worked with her Mom at Pepperell! 

Zach was so interested in anything we were up to in class or on the campus - milkweed garden, nature trails, science lab.

What a sweetheart! I an looking forward to seeing Savannah tomorrow night to discover her plans. 

Best of luck to this great kid who transferred to Rome High and graduated last week.

I have stayed close to Jace and his family as his brothers have been involved in our YoungTales storytelling club. His Dad (Sam Burnham) and Mom are friends and I look forward to see what this young man will be up to in the next few years.

J.C was so full of life as a fourth-grader. Now look at that goatee!

Christopher Dean is another great kid who has stayed in contact. He and his father (George Dean) and mother (Robin Dean) sometimes join us for storytelling activities, and Christopher even told one of his own stories to our group at a Christmas storytelling event at our house a couple of years ago.

I not only taught James, I taught his older brother Charles! James and Charles toot at me from their vehicles still, and occasionally stop out front of the house for a brief howdy. And his Dad, Charles Hehn is a pretty good guy too.

I wonder how many AES Spelling Bees I have called. Maybe 18, though I am not absolutely sure I called it that first year.

Time Machine: Mr Shaw's Stars 2010

As the end of the school year approached I decided to make my own class picture. We sat on the world's most substantial outdoor classroom benches and someone (was it Donna Brown maybe?) took the picture from the platform there. Sarah Echols was my outstanding student=teacher from Berry Collge that year. Later she was my co-worker at Arrowhead Environmental Education Centerfor over two years. Allien McNair was an "inclusion" teacher in my classroom, always looking for ways to make the learning experience better for these beloved young'n's. 

 

Gleaning Facebook: A Baby Graduate

Terrell Shaw's baby graduates from Mercer University this morning, with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (with a minor concentration in Photography). Her college career has been distinguished by two years as Editor in Chief of The Cluster, Mercer's award-winning student newspaper. Congratulations, Lillian!

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Warren Lathem

Congratulations to Lillian and proud parents. Why did the Shaws get all the journalistic skills?

Tracy S Lawler

Congratulations to Lillian! May you have a wonderful celebration today with all your loved ones, too.

Judy Harris

And just yesterday she was in Kindergarten. Enjoy this special day.

Joan Shaw Turrentine

So proud of her!

Nancy Johal Singh

Awesome, congrats to her and you for being an terrific dad.

Anita Stewart

That's wonderful! I know how proud you and Sheila are of both of your talented and bright daughters. 

Carol Shaw Johnston

Wow! These babies grow up too fast! Congratulations, Lillian! Terry - take lots of pictures and post them ASAP.

Bill Fortenberry

Congratulations! Now, for some sage advice from one who has walked in your similarly educated shoes: Marry well Lillian, or, practice frugal living starting ASAP.

Ruth Baird Shaw

Congratulations to my beautiful Granddaughter, Lillian Shaw!!!

Ruth Baird Shaw

Bill <smile> are you saying all journalists are not rich??? 

Linda Floyd Blackwell

Congratulations Lillian on graduating and all of your achievements. Best wishes as you go to N.Y. this summer.

Ruth Baird Shaw

Warren, it may be the Baird's (Bards) with journalistic skills? LOL

Jim Achmoody

Congratulations!

Jane Baird Lathem

Congratulations!!! That's wonderful.

Gleaning Facebook: New Lifestyle

OK, back to the diet. Reckon I can get back to the weight of the young guy above? I'm down 22.8 pounds currently. 18.2 pounds to go. It's gotten harder the last couple of weeks.

Kendra L Harris
OMG, LOVE the profi

le pic! That's the Mr. Shaw I remember!

Warren Lathem
Congratulations. Now if you could just lose the extra political weight you are carrying...Blessings to you.

Christie Hufstedler Boyd
That's funny Warren! Don't believe it's going to happen though. You hang on to your politics, Terrell, and I'll hang in there with you.

Jim Achmoody
How do you lose any weight--what's the secret?

Martin Penland Teem
I lost 50# in 2007. Unfortunately i have found it all.

Nancy Johal Singh
you look great and I know you could do it....plus you will probably get lots of exercise at the camp grounds...

Terrell Shaw
Thanks all for your support. I'm headed to camp for three days with a hundred plus fourth graders. I'll walk off lots of calories these three days, but unfortunately (?) they have great food in bottomless bowls at Nature's Classroom: I'll replace each calorie burned and then some probably! But calories don't count at camp. I'm just gonna try to be non-gluttonous. Then back on track when I return.
Marty, I've found lost weight many times over the years. This time I am DETERMINED that I am not on a diet, I am changing my lifestyle. I set goals, celebrate, but get back at it the next day. I will occasionally feast. But every feast will be balanced by a time of extra exercise, fasting or, at worst, a deficit of calories to match the increased calories of the feast.
That's the plan. And it continues as long as I do.

Jim Geist
Check out the O.A. website. OverEaters Anonymous. They say cut out sugar & flour....eat only three meal a day with no snacking (or 5-6 meals a day within your calorie count ex. 1800 calories). Good Luck!

Terrell Shaw
I'll check that out Jim. Thanks. BTW I'll have both my daughters up your way this summer. Brannon has been there for four years in Astoria, nannying (in NJ) and acting. Lillian graduates this weekend from Mercer U. in journalism and photography and heads to Queens to intern at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Jim Geist
I use to live at 34-09 41 St. Apt. 3C in Astoria...literally 3 blocks away from the Musuem of Moving Image. It is undergoing renovation now. I currently live in nothern NJ now.

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
You are doing an admirable job, Mr. Shaw. Keep up the good attitude, it looks like it's paying off!

Terrell Shaw
Small world, huh Jim! My eldest used to live just around the block from MMI at Broadway and 46th.

Not There Yet But On the Right Track

The turnaround that our President has led is nothing short of phenomenal. We are still hurting from the recession and will be for a while - I have several relatives and friends who are searching for jobs - but we are headed in the right direction and faster than anyone could have expected. And the turning point was the inauguration of a pragmatic, no nonsense, non-doctrinaire President.

Sorry to have been neglecting you, Ol' Blog. I'll try to do better.

In some ways this year is just as important as 2008. We face the usual reverse political tendency two years after a big win. The so-called "Tea Party" has huffed and puffed (with the usual right-wing blow-hards in the media lending their lung power) some enthusiasm in their ranks that must be countered. Actually every single "Tea Party" supporter that I know of was also a supporter of George W. Bush, so they are just the same old right-wing huffers and puffers. The angry always vote. We cannot be apathetic and expect to hold onto our gains of 2006 and 2008. Even with 59 votes in the Senate the President has had a tough slog to pass even watered down legislation against almost unanimous opposition from the Party of No. If we lose seats progress will be slowed further.

We need to get out the word. This President and the Democratic caucus in Congress have handled our troubled economy about as well as possible against a blatantly obstuctionist opposition. And the numbers are beginning to prove it.

Pass the word. We were right. America is coming back.

Gleaning Facebook: Daniele's Folklore Project

From Daniele Carey's Facebook:

[Danielle Carey] is so greatful for Ruth Baird Shaw, Terrell Shaw, Deborah Shaw Lewis, Joan Shaw Turrentine, and Janice Shaw Crouse for all of their help on her folklore project. I got an A!

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Sarah Carmona
yayayay!

Deborah Shaw Lewis
Yes! I am glad for your A. Also glad for the opportunity to share good memories with you.

Terrell Shaw
So when do we get to see/hear it?

Joan Shaw Turrentine
Great job, Danielle. It was so much fun to visit with you!

Janice Shaw Crouse

It was our privilege to get to know you and tell you stories about your wonderful granddad!! 

Downtown and Myrtle Hill

Carnegie Library

The entrance to the old Carnegie Library, now city offices.

World war I memorial

 

Spanish-American War memorial

1996 Olympic Torch relay monument

From the JL Todd Auction Company

"We Sell The World"

Gargoyles guard our county courthouse entry.

A bit of evidence of the days when major department stores anchored our downtown business district. Above the inlaid MW stands for Montgomery-Wards. In past days the street also was home to Sears, JC Penny, Murphy's, Belks, Fahy's, Redford's, and Miller Brothers.

The old Masonic Temple

A bronze sculpture from the "Tomb of the Known Soldier"

Originally Lanham & Sons Dry Goods and later Sterchi's and other businesses.

The Confederate Memorial atop Myrtle Hill

Martha King was a school counselor and teacher in the Floyd County School System. She was also a very active United Methodist layman in our local congregation, Trinity UMC, and also at the district, Conference, Jurisdictional, and national, and international level. She was a friend to my father and mother. I also considered her my friend and mentor. 

The oldest monument at Myrtle Hill.

No offense, Mr. Hillyer, but the Roman numerals seem a bit pretentious.

Patton

Assorted Angels of Myrtle Hill Cemetery

Bass

Harbin is a name known to all Romans. The Harbin Clinic medical group is one of the largest in Georgia. I got my first glasses about 1963 in the old Harbin Clinic on Third Avenue.