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Pauline Anna Loeffler
- 87, Female
- Greensboro, NC
- United States
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- Current Home {City, ST}
- Greensboro, North Carolina
- Attended HP {No, Attended, or Graduate}
- Graduate
- High School Graduation Year {yyyy}
- 1954
- June, January, or August
- June
- Elementary Schools Attended
- Ray School and Parkside Elementary School
- Education after High School
- BS in Physical Education - Southern Illinois University 1958
MSPE - Woman's College Univ. of North Carolina 1961
Graduate Study doctorate - University of Iowa 1960-1965
PhD - University of Southern California - 1968
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- Single
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- Biography
- First generation American of German immigrants who came toAmerica in the late 1920's. They were married at Woodlawn Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church where I was Baptized and Confirmed. Dad worked as a Banquet Captain at the Windermere East Hotel. Mother stopped working when I was born. We lived on Kimbark Ave. until moving to 69th and Dante. I attended school at Ray and Parkside Elementary Schools and Hyde Park High.My early interests were in sports and I studied piano for ten years. I received my BS in Physical Education from Southern Illinois,
MSPE from Woman's College UNCG and PhD from the University of Southern California. I taught at Evergreen Park High School, Held teaching assistantships while working for my degrees, Taught at The University of Iowa while beginning doctoral work, taught at University of North Carolina Greensboro after completing PhD. Taught at Charles D. McIver Education Center for moderately to profoundly mentally challenged 5 yrs, to 21 yrs of age. That program became a national model in Physical Education. I retired from teaching Physical Education in 1989. My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Dementia and we moved to Florida where my parents once lived. I worked at DisneyWorld as a hostess in the French Theater and Boat Captain with the Friendship Fleet from the International Gateway to MGM Studios. We moved back to Greensboro where my mother entered a nursing home.I worked in the same facility as a Recreation Therapist until my mother died in 1996. My primary focus was activity development for memory impaired residents primarily for those who did not know what to do with their hands. After leaving I joined the team teaching English to incoming immigrants/refugees in the resettlement program. This was sponsored by Lutheran Family Services and Guilford Technical Community College who hired the teachers. I worked in this program for ten years 2000-2010. Then came full retirement. Early in my career I also did Easter Seal camping as a counselor and three years as camp counselor in Northern Wisconsin. I have done everything that I loved to do and believe that I have made a difference. My life has been a happy one and God has made sure of that. None of it could have happened had my parents not immigrated to this country. I am so proud of them! I have traveled six times to Germany to visit my family. That has also been a highlight of my life because I did not know them for my first thirty years. For one year I also taught Physical Education at Max Planck Gymnasium and Hoelderlin Pro-Gymnasium ages 10-21 years of age. Since I am bi-lingual that experience was very special to me. I remain connected to my family via email and Facebook and that makes me a very happy retiree!
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An important reason for my success in post-secondary education is the strength of the faculty at Hyde Park who challenged our thinking and our
ability to write our thoughts down on paper. I thought many times, "If I have to write one more paper my brain will melt!" But later, I was so grateful to have been challenged in that way. I do have a suggestion to Mr. Johnson's Group. Please encourage students to write whether a brief biography or a more lengthy research paper. Try not to criticize, but make students feel good about doing the assignment! I am strong in writing today and organizing my thoughts because of great teachers who didn't just impart information.
As a Physical Educator, Health, sport and fitness for living were and are my goals for students. Hyde Park had six Physical Educators all of whom challenged us. We had a Leaders group that assisted the teachers in classes. The gymnasium was equipped in German style with an indoor track, vaulting buck, vaulting horse, pommel horse, parallel bars rings, wall ladders and chin up bar, medicine balls, jump ropes and downstairs a swimming pool. Exercise to music rounded out the fitness activities. The sports program rounded out the lifetime activities we participated in. I visited Hyde Park on a vacation trip several years ago and went into the gymnasium. I was very disappointed to see the equipment gone, the indoor track gone. There was a basketball court, I assume for competition, but that is not all to a Physical Education Program. Hyde Park was written up in the newspaper with a modern gym and model facility for participation in Physical Education with qualified teachers to conduct the program. And competition should be for boys and girls. And assessment should be part of evaluation. Hyde Park was a great school and it will be again. Go Hyde Park!
Hyde Park students and teachers............you are the best! Show Chicago that you are still the greatest! This school is as great as each teacher and student in it. This school sent me on my professional journey as a teacher. I will always be grateful to all within who believed in me!
I believe that the International Baccalaureate will elevate this school to a scholarly level for its students. We are a global society and to be successful
one must have an understanding of cultures beyond our own. We are one family with each striving to improve this world with love and understanding rather than conflict. I have worked with the global community through immigrant/refugee resettlement teaching English.Hyde Park can expand its greatness by focusing on acceptance of differences and understanding our similarities. Believe in yourselves! You are about to enter a fascinating and exciting world of learning.
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