Robin Younes:  

Ode to "Romo" When I was a young lass, a teacher came into my life in the seventh grade. Did he but know it, he inspired me during a terrible time in my young life. He was really a young man, though the loss of his hair to my young eyes meant he was old. His name was Norman A. Rominski, a new first year teacher and it wasn't long before he was called, "Romo" by several kids (Ed Cain, Tom Kaldor? who was it ?) and the name stuck. He was teaching us Greek and Roman Mythology and laying it on thick. For some reason I remember Jim Thompson was in the class him asking me if I'd heard Jim Croce' had died and I was stunned. Here I had been worrying about whether my Dad was going to really going to live or not after a terrible car wreck and I had no idea that Jim Croce's plane had gone down or how it was that what Romo was teaching I remembered it word for word. Romo was going to give a test and we all knew it was gonna be a killer. Yep, it was, 100, Yep, 100 questions being asked by Romo which you were required to write a one word answer on your sheet of note paper with each line numbered. It was a majo...Expand for more