{"id":4880,"date":"2014-08-16T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2015-02-09T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:00:21","slug":"to-honor-and-thank-mrs-rose-sleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/to-honor-and-thank-mrs-rose-sleigh\/","title":{"rendered":"To Honor and Thank Mrs. Rose Sleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"

As told to Bonnie Wren by Lenny Bobbio, ’72.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mrs. Sleigh had the insight, fortitude and courage to come up to me and say, “Hey, you need some extra help, and I want to help.”

\"Rose<\/a>

Mrs. Rose Sleigh<\/p><\/div>
\nI had no understanding of the importance of the English language. I felt, like, “Hey, I can read!” Mrs. Sleigh asked, “But can you express yourself coherently?”<\/p>\n

She saw the problem, pointed it out. I accepted it, it wasn’t forced upon me, But she said, “If you don’t get any help you won’t amount to much.” I wanted nothing to do with English, but she went out on a limb and said, “I can help, and I can get you a student tutor.”<\/p>\n

That’s how Madelyn Scalise (’71) came to tutor me in English. I would go to her house two hours a night, twice a week through my sophomore and junior year. She volunteered for free, helped me understand sentence structure, taught me how to write 100 or 500-word report, everything I needed to get ready to go to college.<\/p>\n

\"ToMadelyn and Mrs. Sleigh both had to be working together. I’m sure they had plenty of meetings about me in between. I was more than a special project. I was a special basket case!<\/p>\n

When they were done I could actually write a coherent sentence and paragraph. That’s the only reason why I was able to graduate college. The way I was before? There’d have been no way I could’ve been accepted anywhere. <\/p>\n

Mrs. Sleigh made a difference, because she took the initiative and went with it, went with her gut feeling. She saw more in me than what I saw as to what I could accomplish. She knew the imprtance of being able to express myself in writing. To me, she made the difference. <\/p>\n

Lenny Bobbio, ’72<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As told to Bonnie Wren by Lenny Bobbio, ’72. Mrs. Sleigh had the insight, fortitude and courage to come up to me and say, “Hey, you need some extra help, and I want to help.” I had no understanding of the importance of the English language. I felt, like, “Hey, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-story-behind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}