FACULTY


You don’t have to play music or sing to be a Middle School teacher, but it helps. From left: Charley Adams, Phillip Craig, Dennis Chang (seated), Jeri Haskins, Neil Hollister, Nancy Teskey, David Blackall (seated), Eric Dams, Ryan Holland (seated), Ann von Ofenheim, and Kathy Layendecker.


Lower left: Fourth Grade teacher Asha Sathyaraj helps a student with her work.


Teachers with PhDs:


Never Perfect, But Always Getting Better JACK O’BRIEN, ART


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ucked away in the basement of Bishop Dagwell Hall is a darkroom where my passion for photography got its start. When


you shoot film, you have to make every photo count. It requires looking twice at the settings before pressing the shutter. Film does not give you the instant playback of a digital image; it requires more patience and allows no second chances. After taking the image, the long process of developing the photo begins. Spending so much time and energy on one film photo— compared to the instant gratification of a digital photo—made me a better photographer, and it made a good image more rewarding. Jack O’Brien (right) taught me how to mix the


chemicals required for darkroom use, and later he put me in charge of managing the materials and helping other students in addition to my class assignments. Whenever I gave a completed print to Jack, no matter how hard I tried, it was never perfect, even when I thought it was. I could always do better, and that’s how I did get better. At my conference with Jack at the end of the photography course, he admitted that my photos were some of the best he had ever seen from a student—something I had never heard through- out the semester.


WWW.OES.EDU WINTER 2011 OES MAGAZINE 7 7 I learned how to use a camera, how it works,


how its settings modify my images. I learned how to process and develop film and make prints that were shown at school art events. I was inspired to get a summer job at a local studio and made enough money to purchase a camera of my own. I don’t know where photography will take me or whether it will inf luence my college decision, but I do know that it will be a lifelong passion.


Corbet Clark Steve Decker Micheline Ghattas John Holloran Bill Lamb Catherine Molloseau Katrina Perry Hap Pritchard Art Ward Bevin Daglen Nancy Teskey


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