Students honor teacher
Published: October 28, 2004
A secret that students in Mary Ward’s fourth-grade class have been holding in for over a month was finally revealed Wednesday.
The fourth-graders have been secretly constructing a quilt for their teacher, who is currently receiving chemotherapy treatments.
“We started working on it [the quilt] a month ago,” said Blake Roseland, a fourth-grade student.
“It [the quilt] is important to her because of the things she is going through, having cancer,” said Nathan Simatovich.
“She’s nice to us and tries her hardest to do her best,” said Lauren Vis. “And she’s a nice teacher.”
The students presented the quilt to their teacher at the start of school.
“I was very surprised,” Ward said about the student’s surprise project. “They kept a good secret.”
Ward has been a teacher for the past 23 years and is currently going through her second round of chemotherapy for cancer that has reoccurred in her liver.
“This is such a neat group of caring and considerate students,” Ward said.
Lynda Atcher, whose daughter Amy is a student in Ward’s class, helped the class construct the quilt.
Atcher visited the students twice during their art class to work with the students on the quilt.
Each student used paint to place their handprint and name on one block of the quilt.
Atcher also incorporated quotes into the quilt’s design, inlcuding “To teach is to touch a life forever.”
Atcher said she had the help of several staff members at the school.
“Those working in food service would leave them [the quilt squares] dry on the deep freezers and then store them on top of the canned goods,” Atcher said.
The students also signed a card and presented Ward with a half-day spa treatment at Younkers in the Jordan Creek Mall.
Atcher also had Ward, with the help of another student, cut a section of her hair to be donated to Locks of Love.
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