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Twenty-five years after she said hello to Ignatius, JoAnn Lane will be saying good-bye as she retires at the conclusion of this year. Mrs. Lane has taught Biology, AP Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology since she arrived from Beaumont. She has diligently served as department chair for the past ten years. Mrs. Lane recalls having developed her interest in science at Villa Angela, where her teacher, Sr. Ursula, greatly influenced and inspired her. She moved on to Ursuline College and received her masters at Duke University. She began her career at Collinwood, where she taught for two and a half years. More importantly, however, she met her husband, John, while teaching there. The two have been happily married for 40 years and have two children, Joseph and John Thomas (J.T.) ’83, who is now a priest in Albuquerque. After leaving Collinwood, she went on to instruct at Cleveland’s Audubon Junior High, Saint John College, and the Hebrew Academy, working at these locations for one year each. After a four-year employment at Beaumont High School, she spent a year working in real estate. All she has to say about her time in real estate was: “If I’m going to interact with people who act like children, they better be ages 15 through 17.” Having decided against pursuing this change in profession, she returned to teaching with her arrival at Saint Ignatius. Mrs. Lane has not only taught high school students, but has also spent many of her summers pursuing other activities. One of her favorite experiences was when she spent a week familiarizing other Biology teachers with the demanding AP curriculum for several summers at Illinois Wesleyan University. She is not only a teacher, but also an active learner; Mrs. Lane has participated in various workshops at University of Rochester, Cornell University, Ohio State, and the University of Georgia. Perhaps her most fascinating endeavor was her eleven-day trip to South America in December 1985. Part of her time was spent on the Galapagos Islands, known by biologists as the location of Charles Darwin’s famous studies on natural selection. Here, she was able to get an up-close look at the very species often mentioned in her beloved textbooks. As chair of the science department, Mrs. Lane took an active role in making the new the scene. Luckily, damages were limited, saving Brian some cash, but more importantly saving him a trip to the Alamo to find Don Juan Thug. Although Charlene’s exterior deficiencies are numerous, she has a strong heart and a will to party that never says die. Charlene is truly a force to be reckoned with. For these reasons and more, Charlene is much worthy of the title Lemon of the Month. Clavius Science Center what it is today. She and other fellow science teachers traveled to observe the labs of the best schools in the New York, Chicago, and the Northeastern Ohio area. She was very pleased with the process, stating that she “enjoyed being involved” because the teachers “were able to provide much input into the actual building plans.” Reflecting on her tenure at Ignatius, she feels she has contributed most to the building of a great science staff and the creation of a better facility. Having long held the position of teaching some of the top freshmen in biology, Mrs. Lane hopes that in the future, the freshman biology program will develop and attract even more students. Ins place of teaching, Mrs. Lane intends to travel and pursue her exciting hobby of photography in her retirement. She has set her eyes on a new goal: to someday enter the National Geographic photography contest. As she finishes her last few days at Ignatius, she feels she will “miss everything about teaching,” that is, everything except for grading the lengthy, meticulous lab reports her students are required to produce. |
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