R.I.P Mr.Aleterzits

Today I found out some devestating news! My former highschool teacher Mr.Alterzits passed away this Christmas from a aortic aneurism. Mr.Alterzits was the kind of teacher you read about in readers digest and chicken soup for the soul. He was a free spirited man with so many talents one of them being his love for teaching. He taught Psychology and Economics. His classes would awlays get filled up because he was that good! It is because of Mr.Alerzits that my passion for Psychology evolved into wanting to help others. He made every lecture very interesting mainly because he used allot of stories. Like the time he went to Barelona, Spain and joined the thousands of citizens in the running of the bulls. If you do not know about this tradition Google it. When he told the story he talked about a college young man he met that ran with the bulls for the first time, who got injured in the running of the bulls and passed away. He dedicated that lecture to him. That is what type of man Mr.Alterzits was very outgoing and always touching a person's life. He gave life to every lecture and that is what made his students fall in love with his lectures. There was not a day that I would go home and talk about the lecture Mr.Alterzits gave. He was also an amazing couch leading the soccer team to be undefeated all the years at Cactus. While he was couch he led the soccer team to win 6 state tiltes. Not allof of couches can do that! I can say that not allot of people make an impression on me and Mr.Alterzits was among the few that did. His character and charisma is that of the character in the poem by Walt Whitman "Oh Captain, My Captain". He leaves behind allot of cheerished memories. One of them is very dear to me, in my year book he wrote " Yadira best wishes for the happiest future, glad you were in ALL my classes! Keep smiling and questioning, they both suit your personality! make us proud with a positive future!" I know it may seem odd to many that those simple words mean allot but it was makes us proud with a positive future that hit home. Mr.Alterzits believed in my potential to change some ones life. In one of our class discussions he asked what we wanted to do before we died. I told him I wanted to change someones life for the better before I died. He was puzzled by my responds and asked me how I knew I already had not. That was just like him always challenging students for the better. I hope that while he is in heaven he knows how many lifes he changed for the better. With that being said Thank you Mr.Alterzits!

THE SHIP OF LIFEby John T. Baker

Along the shore I spy a ship.

As she sets out to sea;

She spreads her sails and sniffs the breezeAnd slips away from me.

I watch her fading image shrink,

As she moves on and on,Until at last she’s but a speck,

Then someone says, “She’s gone.”

Gone where?

Gone only from our sightAnd from our farewell cries;

That ship will somewhere reappear To other eager eyes.

Beyond the dim horizon’s rimResound the welcome drums,

And while we’re crying, “There she goes!”They’re shouting,

“Here she comes!”We’re built to cruise for but a whileUpon this trackless sea

Until one day we sail awayInto infinity