So on one of my facebook groups,
those we've lost from my high school, I posted on one of my favorite teachers.
She was a far left liberal from the 60s, an uber-feminist (though oddly, that didn't stop her from taking the surnames of both her husbands). She was a Van Osdel when I first met her (in an English class, 1973), became a Tubiola barely two months later (and her new husband was a way cool dude). Originally she was Patsy Nalley.
I sparred with her on politics and such for three years, in various classes involving English and journalism and related studies. And even though her politics were very liberal, her first and foremost goal was to have her students think for themselves. A true teacher, in the truest sense.
She passed away from cancer in 1994, at the far-too-young age of 52.
Pat, I love you to pieces. I hope there's an afterlife, so I can see you again, you uber-feminist-liberal wonderful lady.