{"id":933,"date":"2013-03-12T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryanninprogress.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2013-03-11T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T00:09:26","slug":"26-tuesday-dawn-lafferty-hochsprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryanninprogress.com\/26-tuesday-dawn-lafferty-hochsprung\/","title":{"rendered":"26 Tuesday: Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week’s honoree for 26 Tuesdays<\/a> was Dylan Hockley. Dylan loved to read and if you read my Poetry post<\/a> this past Saturday, you know that I have a fierce appreciation for Dr. Seuss<\/a>, whose birthday was on 3\/2. Our family’s Dr. Seuss books<\/a> have long been donated to our local elementary school, but it’s my opinion that a school library can never have too many Dr. Seuss books.<\/p>\n

I “polled” the members of my immediate family and asked them to tell me their favorite Dr. Seuss book while growing up. Here are the results:<\/p>\n

PH – How The Grinch Stole Christmas!<\/em>
\nMoi – Fox in Socks<\/em>
\nEldest DS – One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish<\/em>
\nDD – Hop on Pop<\/em>
\nDSL – Green Eggs and Ham<\/em>
\nYoungest DS – The Cat in the Hat\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I went to our local Walmart<\/a> and managed to pick up Green Eggs and Ham<\/em> and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish<\/em> for free. How? I had “leftover” gift cards from Wally World that needed using up. Next, I went off to our local Hastings Entertainment store<\/a> and found the rest of the books listed above. The bonus? Since it’s Dr. Seuss’ birthday month, you can buy 2 Dr. Seuss books<\/a> and get the 3rd free<\/em>! Now, this is the way to shop, friends!<\/p>\n

In our little town we have several excellent private pre-school and kindergarten programs. My youngest two children attended one of these wonderful programs and started off their educational lives really well because of it. Not only that, but the program exists on a shoestring budget to try and help as many kids attend this program as possible. So, the Dr. Seuss books have now been donated to this fine program, in the hopes that more children will be exposed to how fun poetry and reading can be.<\/p>\n

So, with the other folks also doing their 26 Acts of Kindness, the MIP Kindness count stands at 15 right now. What did you do for your act of kindness to honor Dylan? You can submit a comment below or send a private email to me via the Contact page<\/a>. \u00a0As always, details are welcome, but not mandatory.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week we honor Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung. Hochsprung was the heroic principal who raced out of her office to investigate the commotion in her school’s hallways. Tragically, doing this very thing resulted in her being shot and killed. Here is a little about Ms. Hochsprung:<\/p>\n

Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47<\/a><\/h6>\n
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Hochsprung, who became Sandy Hook Elementary School’s principal two years ago, was “really nice and very fun, but she was also very much a tough lady in the right sort of sense,” friend Tom Prunty said. And the students loved her. “Even little kids know when someone cares about them, and that was her,” Prunty said.\u00a0<\/span>“I never saw her without a smile,” said Aimee Seaver, mother of a first-grader.\u00a0Hochsprung lived in Woodbury, Connecticut, with her husband, two daughters and three stepdaughters. The longtime career educator majored in special education for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the 1990s and had just entered the Ph.D. program at Esteves School of Education at the Sage Colleges in New York last summer.\u00a0“My mom, Dawn Hochsprung, was taken tragically from me. But she went down in a blaze of glory that truly represents who she was,” her daughter, Cristina Hassinger, tweeted.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s Post:\u00a0<\/strong>There is nothing routine about a routine examination…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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