2013 Newark Middle School Yearbook Dedicated To Tanea...better!and!achieve!more....
Transcript of 2013 Newark Middle School Yearbook Dedicated To Tanea...better!and!achieve!more....
To his utter surprise, the 2013 Newark Middle School yearbook was dedicated June 13 to Tim Tanea, an NMS eighth grade math teacher who is retiring June 30 after 31 years of teaching at NCSD. After NMS yearbook advisor Mary Thoms announced the yearbook had been dedicated to Tanea, and read what eighth grade social studies teacher Tedd VanDuyne and eighth grade ELA teacher Sue VanTyle wrote about him for the yearbook, Tanea’s wife, Kathleen, daughter, Sarah, and father, William, who had been backstage, came onto the stage to congratulate him. Tanea graciously thanked everyone and said there were probably 80 or so professionals or staff members at NMS who deserved the honor more than he. But he said he was “honored” and said it was something he would truly remember for the rest of his life. In the yearbook, VanDuyne wrote that Tanea, who has also
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coached countless soccer, basketball and tennis teams throughout his career _ in fact a total of 115 seasons _ has been both an exemplary teacher and coach. “What is rare is the person who can be considered great in both roles _ the person who blends those roles so skillfully and so naturally that they become seamless and uniTied. For over 30 years, no one has done that better than Mr. Tim Tanea,’’ VanDuyne wrote. “Mr. Tanea’s high standards in the classroom, on the Tield, or on the court are legendary. Always expecting the best from his students and his athletes, he will let them know when they have let themselves down, but will then, with humor and boundless patience, provide the teaching and the coaching that will help them to do
better and achieve more. “Mr Tanea teaches not just math, or soccer, or basketball or tennis. He teaches citizenship, scholarship and sportsmanship. He coaches the values of hard work, of satisfaction in a job well done and an effort well-‐made. And of expecting more from yourself than you expect from others. Mr. Tanea can transmit those teaching and values so well, because he models them. Those high expectations he has for his students and his athletes? Mr. Tanea Tirst has them for himself. And, in reaching them so well for so long, Mr. Tanea has inspired hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young people to follow his example and achieve more than they at Tirst believed themselves capable of achieving. Thank you, Mr. Tanea, for your countless hours of effort in the classrooms, on the courts and on the playing Tields of the Newark Central School District and throughout the community. You have set a standard not only for your students, but also for your colleagues. It is a standard to which all should aspire. It is a standard which will endure long past your retirement.’’ Tanea credited his parents and his upbringing for his successes. “The ideals I have put into my teaching and coaching are things I learned from my parents,’’ he said. “I’ve tried to instill them in my own kids and students in my classes on a daily basis.” Tanea and wife, Kathleen, a Newark High School business teacher and district coordinator of technology staff development, have two children who are both NHS graduates. Chris, a graduate of Texas A&M University, who is getting married July 6, is the communications director in the Bartlesville, Oklahoma school district. Their daughter, Sarah, will be a senior at Penn State in the fall plans to become either a physician’s assistant or a physical therapist.
A Newark native and Hobart College graduate, where he majored in psychology and minored in education, Tanea earned his master’s degree in education from SUNY Brockport. He taught for two years at St. Michael’s School before he began teaching sixth grade math at the former Newark Junior High School in September of 1982. After teaching sixth grade math for seven years, he began teaching eighth grade math which he has done for 24 years. During that time, he has also taught accelerated (ninth grade) math to qualiTied eighth graders. He has been a coach in the NCSD longer than he has taught here. He began coaching soccer while in college and has continued for a total of 34 years. During that time, he coached Boys Varsity Soccer for 14 years that included a sectional championship in 1990. Tanea has coached basketball for 33 years, coaching both boys and girls modiTied, boys freshman and boys JV teams. He’s coached tennis for 33 years and 20 of those years were spent coaching Boys Varsity tennis. Tanea has never had a season off from coaching since he began teaching at NCSD 31 years ago. And this next school year will be no exception. He will be again coaching all three sports in addition to doing substitute teaching. In his spare time once he’s retired, Tanea said he plans to play “a little more golf.”
[Two Other Awards Presented]
Also at the June 13 assembly, eighth grader CaSondra LaFrance was given the Ashley Henkel Memorial award. The award is presented annually to an eighth grader who is “kind, sincere, determined, positive, considerate, and a friend to all.”
The Tirst annual Tyler Finn Memorial award was given to Matthew Roelands. The award will be given annually to aneighth grade band or chorus student whose passion for music is evident to all on a
daily basis. Like Tyler, who passed away unexpectedly a few months ago, this student’s enthusiasm for music keeps them connected to their classmates and the Middle School. When inspired by the music, this student’s leadership encourages the ensemble to achieve a higher degree of musicianship through hard work.