Professor Ann Marie Drennan I first met Professor Ann Marie Drennan last year as a first year part-time graduated student. I was about to begin my search for my initial field placement. I remember walking into her office for my first appointment. I was nervous, not knowing where to begin my search after only being a student for one semester, and a teacher for 25 years. I vividly recall three things about her after our first introduction: her delicate appearance, her winning smile, and her incredible mind. Professor Drennan believed that each individual should be allowed to choose their assignment by his or her own merits and not by any external social indicators such as age, sex or social class. True to form, she let me search out my choices for the exact field placement that would benefit my needs. Rather than discriminating and capping my abilities she gave me free rein to choose an appropriate placement for my first year practicum. Death always brings to close so many unfulfilled wishes. I recently found myself, as I passed her office with the shade drawn and the door locked, regretting that I couldn’t have one more hour. Although ever since I met her, her body was frail, her mind was always so energetic that I could never imagine her passing away. Professor Ann Marie Drennan cannot be replaced and there will always be an absence in the lives she has touched. There Are No Words to Match My Gratitude There are no words to match my gratitude, However much like Shakespeare I might write. Above all else, you’ve shaped my attitude, Nurturing me with discipline and light. Knowledge is the least of what you taught, Yet that least at least prepared my head. Out of your heart I’ve learned the things I ought, Underscoring words you never said. By: George Friedrich Handel. Sequenced by Marty Weimer