Making All the Difference BSC Graduates Find Satisfaction in Education Careers By Karen White Once upon a time in a world of verse, Robert Frost stood in a yellow wood and pondered which of two roads to follow. With so much life left to live, the choice meant everything. The situation is similar for college students who stand at the threshold of their lives and consider the road to their future.
Some paths lead to riches, some to fame, some to satisfaction.
But those who decide to devote their lives to education have chosen a path that will affect not only themselves, but countless numbers of students whom they will teach. Heidi Magoon Connor remembers a young man with dyslexia whom she had tutored for a year proudly handing his high school diploma to his parents. Janice Smith spends her nights and weekends responding to English teachers and students on an award-winning web site of her own design. One minute Joseph Oliveri is George Washington, the next Alexander Hamilton, in a verbal performance designed to make his media savvy students consider the fascination of days gone by. During his decades teaching, Walter Tompkins could often be found rowing around Cape Ann with his students, trekking up Mt. Greylock, or crossing the dunes of Cape Cod.