The Perfect Teacher by E.W. Farnsworth

Author:E.W. Farnsworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zimbell House Publishing

Chapter 4.

Marcie’s Surprise

Fulghum received a standing ovation after his class on film adaptations of Raymond Chandler’s mystery novels. Students flocked to the podium to request the professor to do an encore performance for the entire college. Some students wanted him to design a course devoted to the subject so each film could be minutely dissected by the master. He took note of their comments and told the students he would discuss the possibilities with the administration. One female student called out that he should float the course offering as soon as possible in the SUCCESS evening program. That suggestion led Fulghum to the door of Dr. Giorgio Medic, the Serbian director of the SUCCESS outreach evening program.

“Professor Fulghum, your reputation precedes you. I was planning to recruit you for our evening program, and here you are! Come right in. Let’s discuss your ideas.”

“Thank you, Dr. Medic. I hope I’m pronouncing your name correctly, Meditch?”

“Perfect. Please call me Giorgio.”

“If you’ll call me John, I will. I’ve been teaching the course that Dr. Max Lebetter designed, Noir Film and the Noir Aesthetic. I seem to have hit a raw nerve in the student body. They’d like to hear more about noir in the SUCCESS evening program. What will it take to make that happen?”

“You can write your own ticket, John. Design your course for any format you like, three-week, six-week, semester, summer, whatever. The key is your course description. It has to sell your course. I’m about to promulgate our schedule for spring, summer and fall course offerings. Yours would fit under literature and film in the spring. If you can have the course description to me tomorrow morning, I’ll include the course in our catalog. I’ll also need a syllabus within the next month so I can post it with the others. The sooner you get your syllabus to me, the more exposure to our students it will have. Night, as well as day students, take SUCCESS classes. Typically, courses start with a majority of day students. Then the balance shifts and the second offering has predominantly evening students attending.”

“I understand Dr. Max Lebetter worked closely with you on the design of a number of night courses.”

“Both he and his wife developed nearly all the elective courses that we teach in the SUCCESS program. Their deaths were a significant loss for me. Not everyone can teach the courses they devised.”

“I’ve read what the college website features as the origins of the night school program. You’re given credit for being the inspiration behind it.”

“The president hired me to start the SUCCESS program. It’s done well in spite of me. Seriously, though, I’ve always thought of it as a great collaboration, an opportunity to enrich the day and night students by putting them in a context where they can interact. Day students gain from hearing the ideas of experienced adults. Adults gain from hearing the thoughts of young people.”

“I understand the night program has full academic accreditation.”

“It does indeed. In fact, it’s a model of its kind.

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