Remembering...
CAROL COPE
(We introduce "Remembering" this week, a feature that puts the spotlight on your memories of standout members of the Lewis and Southington High School faculty. We begin with late English teacher Carol J. Cope. "Remembering" will focus on a new teacher every three weeks).
Carol J. Cope was a teacher in the English Department of Southington High School from 1965 until her retirement in 1994. One of the most fondly recalled teachers in the last 50 years, she taught Junior and Senior English, British Literature and Composition, Logic and Language. Outside the classroom, she ran for public office, served on a Charter Revision Commission and through the years caught the attention of more than one newspaper reporter for her unorthodox style. Miss Cope died in 2003 at the age of 67.
So what are your memories of Carol Cope? Her style, personality and how she made an impact on you in the classroom? Click on Comments below and share your recollections.
2 comments:
By the time I knew Miss Cope in the mid-1990s she was already a legend at SHS. But I feel her style went unappreciated the more years passed. By the time she retired in 1994 she was so different from the other teachers that she stood out. And the students didn't know how to figure her out. Her bluntness, her honesty, her passion for her subject. In an era when total PC was just beginning, people like Carol Cope were one in a million. She would never be allowed to survive today.
God rest her soul.
Miss Cope was the best - just the best. Remembering Gordon, Marianne, and myself in the middle back row.
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