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English Department

 

Mr. K. J. Healy

College:  UPB/St. Bona's

Years experience:  14

Hobbies: Housework, I mean work around the house, I mean the building trades, travel , and theater.

Favorite Academic website: www.pahs.net

Favorite Quote: "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer Reflections on the Human Condition, 1973.

Advice to students: Read, write, and verbalize variedly and verily.

Mr. John Jeselnick

College: Clarion University, University of Colorado

Years experience: 29

Hobbies: Woodworking, photography, running, mountain biking, skiing, reading books

Favorite Academic website: www.classroomconnect.com 

Favorite Quote: Don't procrastinate until tomorrow what you can do today.

Advice to students: Read daily, write honestly, search new sites. Learn a lot to build your future.
   

 Mrs. Linda Lane

College: Bachelor of Arts in English: University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction: Gannon University


Years experience: 7

Hobbies: Anything with my grandchildren, knitting, playing golf, playing piano, and reading humor.

Favorite Quote: "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read."  Mark Twain

Advice to students: Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river."  Haitian proverb
   

  Matthew R. Lawton

College: IUP, Gannon University

Years Experience: 10 Years

Hobbies: Playing with my children, reading, video games, movies, television, and poetry.

Favorite Quote: "Lord, what fools these mortals be."- A Midsummer Night's Dream

Advice to students: Have fun- you are only young once.

   
Mrs. Kim Parana

College: B.A. from University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, M.S. from St. Bonaventure University

Years experience: 11

Hobbies: Reading various genre and subjects, especially innovative discoveries in science and education; traveling; listening to music; watching films, especially true stories and adaptations of literature

Favorite academic website: www.loc.gov

Favorite quote: "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -George Barnard Shaw

Advice to students: Life-long learning is the key to success. Remember we are and will always be students of life.
   
Mrs. Nicole Line

College: Slippery Rock University, Mansfield University

Years experience: 4

Hobbies: Scrap booking, reading, family, church & community planning.

Favorite Academic Website: www.webenglishteacher.com

Favorite Quote: "If you don't have time to do it right, you must have time to do it over."

Advice to students: "Carpe Diem"-Seize the day!

Website: teacherweb.com/PA/PortAllegany/Line/

                          

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