Dorothy Morris:  

CLASS OF 1970
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St. louis, MO
St. louis, MO
St. louis, MO
St. louis, MO

Dorothy's Story

Life I currently live in Maryland Heights with a wonderful man who is my soulmate. Mark is great lawyer and one who shares my social concerns and values about how to live life. We laugh a lot! My son Chris received a Master's degree in Aviation and currently works as a charter pilot for Kansas City Aviation Center, and my daughter Abby is a senior at Maryville U. with plans to continue to grad school and eventaully qualify as a CPA. (I have no clue where she got THAT gene!) Me, I work at McCluer North High School as the Visual Arts Department Chairperson. In addition to administrative duties I teach a wide variety of courses: Drawing, Painting, Photography, AP Art History, AP Art Studio and also serve as adjunct faculty to the University of Missouri St. Louis.I've gone through a divorce a number of years ago, and interestingly my ex-husband is now a close friend and colleague....we work at the same high school! I've also had a freelance art business with my work being sold nationally, and worked at the Saint Louis Art Museum as Senior Museum Educator. I'm currently investigating marketing a series of designs I've created which are based on a fusion of Islamic and Christian Medieval motifs. We'll see where that goes! I did graduate from Washington University with a major in Painting and Drawing and a minor in Printmaking and Art Education. I lived in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico for a while where I studied Spanish and fiber arts, by the way.... I look back at my time at RGHS with a sense of it being bittersweet. I didn't fit in too well, but I've come to view that as more a lack of experience with diversity on the part of both my classmates and the faculty. Interestingly, I've had the children of several teachers and classmates, and the grand...Expand for more
child of a Principal from RGHS as students during my tenure at McCluer North....I'm happy to say I was more sensitive and understanding of their individual needs than their parents were of mine! And to all of you....I'm still a pacifist, a liberal and antiwar as ever....even after all these years!!! School I look back and thank Bettye Newton for the guidance she gave me in terms of where to go to art school. I wish RGHS had had the kind of program for future artists that I now get to teach as an important part of. Would I go back to those days???? NEVER!!!!!!! I was a fish out of water, and as I look back from the perspective I have now, I wasn't the one who was short-sighted. Moving on to Art School at Washington University was the best thing that ever happened to me. For the very first time I knew I had truly "come home". The best memories I have of RGHS are the extracurricular activites...the drama stuff...painting scenery. I enjoyed that.I'm still not ready to divulge in public the craziest memory I have!!!!! College I graduated from Washington University's School of Fine Arts in 1974. I absolutely LOVED being able to go to San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico during my junior year which impacted my life greatly After graduation from WU I returned to San Miguel and the Academia Hispano-American where I studied Spanish more intensively. I also studied fiber arts at the Instituto Nacional de las Bellas Artes. What an absolutely GRAND time in my life! When I got back I decided to follow up my instruction in Spanish with a Missouri teaching Certificate in the area....and amazing as it seems to many people, these days I'm qualified to teach not only Art, but Spanish. That would be an attribute I tend to divulge only to close friends!
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