Weird Ward

We had lots of schoolteachers growing up. Their quality varied greatly. The best ones taught us life lessons that still guide us years later. Today's FamilyFirst site is devoted to a teacher like that.

His name is Pat Ward. He taught chemistry at East Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma (is that Oklahoma really necessary? Are there any OTHER Tulsas? ;-) from the late sixties through the nineties.

He was an unconventional teacher, the best kind. He would give his students derogatory, but good-natured nicknames. For instance, a boy named Robert who was known for talking to much became Oral Robert. Lloyd Wallisch became Pink Lloyd. You get the picture.

Ward taught chemistry. Chemistry is a course that can be rather dry. But not so when you have a large scarecrow in the classroom named Elom (that's mole backwards, a basic term of chemistry), accompanied by a weird duck (actually a dippy bird).

Ward founded the Fellowship of Heathen Chemists, a loose affiliation of chemistry students that still meet for breakfast once a month with the teacher himself.

He also effectively taught the subject of chemistry to generations of students who remember him fondly and have rewarded him with this website.

You didn't have to go to ECHS to appreciate the fun memories being shared here. Ward was clearly a special teacher, one that doesn't come along very often. Enjoy.

http://weirdward.net/

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