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Today's Poll!LU professor teaches students in unique setting
Lincoln University professor Lynda Wyman talks to her students about the Lake District in England and about poetry written about that location. Wyman’s students meet with her around a conference room table at St. Joseph’s Bluffs, where she is recovering. Photo by Deborah Cote.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Linda Wyman’s course in English Romantic poets is portable.
It’s not on a laptop; it’s fresh in her mind.
After wrestling with an illness that took the Lincoln University English professor away from her lessons last fall, Wyman has headed back to the classroom.
But she’s not on campus, not this semester.
St. Joseph’s Bluffs, her current home, and the university swiftly came up with a remedy to get Wyman and her students, mostly English majors, together two nights each week.
The residential care facility is excited at the opportunity to share its newly renovated site on West Main Street with the community. The students will have the luxury of learning in the facility’s comfortable board room, complete with coffee and hospitality.
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maiximista 2 years, 1 month ago
Having studied under the tutelage of Dr. Linda Wyman during my years as an English Education major at Lincoln University, I consider myself blessed to have had such an opportunity to learn from someone so wise as she. Her love for literature is surpassed only by her love for her fellow man. For the sake of the English students at Lincoln, I am glad that the university and St. Joseph Bluffs were able to work together so that she can continue to instruct.
By the way, I do still have my textbook from Romantics.....aside from Shakespeare, it was my favorite class during all my years at Lincoln. Best wishes to Dr. Wyman for a speedy recovery!!!!
cogito 2 years, 1 month ago
I also have an English Education degree from Lincoln, and having had Dr. Wyman as both advisor and teacher still remains one of the driving forces in my life. Dr. Wyman is a, if not the, cornerstone of the English department and knowing that I can't just drop in at her office door makes me uncomfortable. She is a brilliant woman (though she would dispute that comment) and a great friend. Just seeing her face makes me smile, and knowing that she is able to keep performing the job she is devoted to, no matter the circumstances, gives me hope. We love you, Coach!
On a related note, I don't find much at all sad about Lincoln. It's a wonderful school and provides an excellent education. Some small difficulties here and there don't make it "sad."
maiximista 2 years, 1 month ago
cogito - I can't help wondering if we were classmates.....I studied under Dr. Wyman from 1990-1993. I think you would agree with me that she is truly one-of-a kind, and has a way about her of offering up the truth and nothing but the truth to each of her students without doing so in a manner that is offensive. I grew so much as a person under her mentorship.
cogito 2 years, 1 month ago
maiximista, I can say we weren't officially classmates, I didn't start at Lincoln until 1995. But I have no doubt that are a number of people that can describe the same situations and feelings for the place and the woman. There is little better than hearing Shakespeare read in that soft Mobile accent
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