Dr. Ben

Clyde's 7th grade Social Studies classes are studying African History. I do not remeber studying this when I was in 7th grade...oh maybe it was because I was homeschooled that year. That may have something to do with it. In our ward, is this man, Dr. Ben, whom is a native Nigerian. He is a Dr. in African and Carribean Literature. Clyde talked to him @ church to see if he would be willing to come to his classes and talk to them about life in Africa. He happily agreed! Way neat! I picked up Dr. Ben this morning and drove him to Clyde's school, in rural Asheboro. We chatted the whole way down to ASheboro and it was nice to get to know him better. We got to SWRMS and the SRO officer escorted us to the library, where it was completely set up for a speech. I had the little ones with me and Blaklee was putting on a show! We didn't stay long, maybe 5 minutes or so. Clyde's 1st class came in with just a few minutes remaining in their block and Dr. Ben began his speech. Clyde said that it was amazing! I'd like to be a student of Mr. Ward's! They had quite an audience. Afterwards, students were anxious to shake his hand and to get his autograph. I think that Dr. Ben had a very positive impact on Clyde's students.

hey- there's Jessup back there!! :)