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for Robert Finney
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KELLY PHILLIPS
February 14, 2009
I LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH
Ernie Adams
February 2, 2009
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.
Anne Coleman Chambers
January 30, 2009
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 the first teacher who ever made me feel like I might be smart. I now have several degrees and am the founding head of Indian Creek School. At ICS all of the teachers are trained in the All Kinds of Minds system of recognizing students strengths and weaknesses and we use the strengths to deal with the weaknesses. We work with a diverse population and my biggest thrill is seeing a young person come back to see us with a college degree when it wasn't expected that he or she would go to college at all.
I am doing what I was meant to do and I think Mr. Finney had an important role in showing me what I could reach for. I spoke about him this fall in my welcome back speech to 150 faculty members at my school and now, everyone there knows his name and connects it with the idea that every student should be encouraged to be the very best that he or she can be. I think for all of us who teach, the kids who come after us are our real legacy. I am very sorry for your loss. He was a fine man.
Haroldine Robinson & Audrey Dutton
January 29, 2009
I was so sorry to hear of your loss. The thoughts of many are with you at this time of sorrow.
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