Last Tuesday we went to the wake for Bill Edgcomb, a long-time educator in the Round Lake, Illinois, school district. Liz worked with him for over twenty years.
Making it even more sad was that he had just retired a couple years ago and almost immediately started an abrupt loss of health that was finally diagnosed as pancreatic cancer. To work all those years and then losing all the retirement time.
We have been to many functions over the years with Bill and his wife (who died about ten years ago) and he was one fun guy. Always with something funny.
As far as education, Bill Edgcomb was the teacher's teacher. He took everything seriously and would put in 12-hour days on a regular basis. I didn't know it, but in 2008, he won the prestgious Golden Apple Award for teaching.
He'll Be Missed.
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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