Once upon a time.

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  • J Saint Claire-Vernan
چکیده

A: It came about I was teaching my first year out of college in Portland, Oregon in 1952 in a school that I hated. The district was lower middle class, going downhill fast. There were thirty five kids in the classroom and I decided by mid-year that if I finished the year in one piece, I was not going to go back there. I could not transfer to another school in the system. The main office told me that there were no openings. I then called the teacher placement secretary in Oregon State University's School of Education, and she said "How would you like to go overseas?" The thought had never crossed my mind until then. I told her that I would love to. She walked into my classroom about a week later and said that there was an organization called the Near East College Association, which is a grouping of all the American schools in the Middle East. They maintain this one office collectively. They needed a mathematics teacher at the American University of Beirut, and at Robert College of Istanbul. Those were the choices. Q: Did you end up going to Beirut first?

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of disease in childhood

دوره 88 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1976