Ed Engler

Presenter:

The educator I have the honor of presenting today taught in the Social Studies department here at Revere High School for twenty-seven years, including the years I attended school here.  He was a popular teacher, well liked by the students, tolerant, fair and even had a decent sense of humor for a teacher.  But, what I remember most about this man was his professionalism and the respect he had for the educational process, for knowledge, for learning.  You could sense that what happened in the classroom was important to him.  That he wanted us to think, to stretch and to grow…that he genuinely cared.  In the end that may have meant more than anything else he taught us. 

So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when years later I walked into one of my first undergraduate classes at the University of Akron to find this man at the front of the room, teaching a class on eastern civilization.   And while unexpected, it seemed perfectly natural to find him working recently at Hale Farm and Village as a historical interpreter…where else but in the one-room schoolhouse?

People become teachers for many different reasons.  But, there are some who teach because they can’t NOT teach…it is not just something they DO…it is part of who they ARE.  I have no doubt that this man will continue to educate and enrich the lives of those around him…in places and in ways maybe even he hasn’t thought of yet. 

He is a teacher!

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