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Earlier this year, I learned that my high school chemistry teacher had died. This was not surprising, since he had been my teacher in 1961. What was rather astounding was the outpouring of appreciation from his former students that followed. All of us mourned the passing of a man who had motivated us in a way that no previous instructor had been able to do, but each of us had thought that we alone had been so imprinted. This self-described "simple Kansas farmer" somehow knew how to leave a mark on his students for the rest of their lives.

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