Anne Watanabe

Mrs. Ann Watanabe was my biology and advanced biology teacher at Notre Dame de Namur High School in San Francisco. She was very special to me. She didn´t just teach us science facts, she got to know us as individuals, and encouraged each of her students to succeed in life. Always there for extra class help or to discuss a particular scientific interest, biology was one of my favourite classes. The frog study, fruit fly breeding project, microscope work, lending me a book on medical...

I love you, Anne.

Mary Paula

"Empathy". Plato hypothesized that there were perfect examples of phenomena of which we saw but imperfect shadows. He called these perfect examples, "forms". Anne was the Platonic Form of Empathy. The thought of any being, however simple, enduring pain or fear, plunged her into sadness. She adopted a Vegan lifestyle early in her adulthood as a direct result.

Anne was unique, and an inspiration to those of us who admired her but didn't have the capacity within us to equal her in...