A Biography of Arlena E. Seneca. Nornel Associates, Pittsburgh and Tempe. Upon finishing it I had come to the conclusion that I had an obligation to make more people aware of this remarkable teacher. Meeting her was high on my list of priorities. Usually a book reviewer will discuss more than the book's main character.
Some cultures have a unique way of identifying individuals who are invaluable and irreplaceable.
Arlena E. Seneca is one of Arizona's Ingan Munhwa Jae . To simply describe her as a teacher would be like describing James Baldwin as a writer, Rosa Parks as a seamstress, Caesar Chavez as a day laborer and Leontyne Price or Paul Robeson as singers. She devoted her life, her entire life, to educating young people. She accepted the mantel of surrogate parent to untold numbers of students. In doing so she prepared them to cope with change and to cope with life during the changes.