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Sean Joyce
September 20, 2025
My sincere condolences Mike, Jimmy, and Gary! Your father was one of the good guys. He was Good People, as my father-in-law described men like him.
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Sean Joyce
September 20, 2025
Warren Dean!
It is impossible for me to think about the classroom part of my career, to think of Cope Junior/Middle School, to think of Lake Mojave, Friday night hot tubs with a margarita, or simply waterskiing (where I not only think of Warren and Judy, but also Warren´s father, who skied every morning on the LA river!). Warren was my mentor and coach as I began my teaching career at Cope Middle School (then a 7-9 junior high school). I had the pleasure and privilege to work very closely with him as we both shared the 8th grade social studies curriculum classes. Warren was a humble person, who understood less is more, and was far more dedicated to the students he supported (and loved) than the students and his colleagues ever realized. Warren was a friend, who knew full well the transitory nature of life and relationships. He was dedicated to his profession, devoted to his wife and sons, and loyal to his friends and neighbors.
One of the many things I remember so fondly of my early years in the classroom at Cope was the camaraderie and fellowship (Warren´s often used word) Warren inspired amongst many of the male staff. Pulling pranks on each other was never beneath a group of about 6 men, and seemingly almost nothing was out of bounds.
Two of the more famous ones involved drilling a hole between a common wall and squirting water through the hole as the man on the other side of the wall was writing on the board, zipper level. You can imagine the class of students´ reaction when he turned around to address the class . . . another was the old pull-down projection screen with a Playboy pin up tapped halfway down the screen as the teacher prepared to project their lesson to the class.
Though it has been almost 20 years since I last saw and talked to Warren, I have thought of him often over these many years. He was a friend. He was an excellent teacher for a time when teachers were taken for granted and little was expected of them. He was my mentor, and, in many ways, I learned more from him than in my professional teaching preparation program.
I have missed Warren over these many years, and I will continue to miss him now. He was an honorable man, husband, father, teacher, veteran. This world he lived in is a better place because of him. I am a better person because I have known him, and he has touched my life. I can only hope and wish that I would have as much of an impact on the people and lives I have touched through my own life as Warren Dean did in his!
Godspeed, my friend!
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