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Robert L. Finney

Washington, District of Columbia

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FINNEY ROBERT L. FINNEY Robert L. Finney, age 82, a former teacher at Sherwood High School and Zadoc Magruder High School, died January 27, 2009 at Montgomery General Hospital. He graduated from West Nottingham Academy in 1944 and served in the US Navy for two years. He graduated in 1952 with a...

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Please accept my condolences. I was a colleague at Sherwood and always admired Bob's insight expressed at faculty meetings. He was also a friend who could make one laugh with his practical application of knowledge. After a very long week many of the staff were able to enjoy relaxing at the Country Courner Inn with a little shuffle board and a few brews. He will be missed but his memory will linger for a long time.

Mr. Finney was my math teacher at Sherwood High in 1958. He made me take trig and solid geometry when I had signed up for an extra art class. When I complained, he told me it was time I used some of my considerable brains to do something other than art and music. He did this after the counselor at Sherwood had told my mother that I obviously wasn't college material and I couldn't major in business because I got my fingers caught between the keys on the typewriter.

Mr. Finney was...

I was so sorry to hear of your loss. The thoughts of many are with you at this time of sorrow.