What Do Meteor Showers, Zookeeping And Mock Trials Have In Common?
She first thought, as a young girl, of being a zookeeper, but her practical mother demurred, thinking that job opportunities might not be plentiful. Next she considered a career in art; but again, her mother gently reminded her that the world was full of artists struggling to earn a living. Undaunted, she then settled on following in her fathers footsteps as a teacher; and, becoming wise in the ways of the worldshe simply didnt tell her mother. But no one was prouder than Lucy Muglia Durr last May when her daughter, Patricia, walked across the stage to accept the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Durr, who is hard of hearing, teaches Social Sciences and Deaf Studies to some of the 1,100 deaf students who attend RIT through the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). My mother is a strong woman and she wants nothing but the best for her children, Durr says. Durr grew up in Minoa, a suburb of Syracuse, as the fourth of five c
