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TEACHER RAYMOND T. BYRNE OF BATAVIA, N.Y., EXPLAINS THAT OBSERVATION COMES BEFORE THEORY.

SIX OUTSTANDING TEACHERS OF HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY

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Elaine W. Ledbetter
Pampa, Texas

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Theodore E. Molitor
St. Paul, Minnesota

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Elaine M. Kilbourne
Washington, D.C.

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H.E. Alexander
Las Cruces, New Mexico

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Raymond T. Byrne
Batavia, New York

First recipients of Du Pont-sponsored annual James Bryant Conant Awards will be honored in April

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A good teacher makes a career of shaping careers

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Administrative duties complement Byrne's teaching load. As head of science department for the Batavia school system, he leads an after-hours discussion with science staff on proposed changes in the curriculum.

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Former student, Paul Gerace, visits Byrne to discuss high school preparation for advanced work. One measure of teacher's performance is "output" of career scientists. Gerace has Ph.D. from Notre Dame, and is now working for Xerox, Inc.

Summer "vacation" in 1965 took Byrne to Japan where he explained U.S. chemistry teaching methods to chemistry teachers from Japanese high schools and colleges. Byrne also spent the summer of 1964 conducting a similar program at Poona University in India under U.S. A.I.D program.

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