Page 1 When Joan Keenan returned to Owensgrove, she didn't expect to find her principal from Peace Corps days still in town. He was the first person she recognized on the road. Joan Hamilton met a Cuttington professor who knew a song she had taught in his Lofa hometown 30 years before. All along the road, little pieces of paper with a U.S. teacher's name were thrust at the visiting teachers.
Nothing says rainy season like the ubiquitous laundry lines.
Ken Barbor teaching Dr. Richard Stuempges learned to make an abacus from bottle caps strung on wire and proceeded to have all his math students follow suit. He found it exciting to see how teachers were managing with so little material support. Though he intended to teach methods of teaching math, he also realized that some of the teachers were learning the math concepts for the first time. Dr. Ken Barbour, and Lucretia Goe, a Liberian teacher who now lives in Indiana, team taught language arts and reading. Teachers received certificates, LEAP T-shirts and hats donated by Winthrop University, where Dr. Frank Ardaiolo will supervise evaluation of the teachers workshop journals.