Award proves art teacher’s special
Allow me to take a few minutes to write you about Rio Grande’s art teacher, Mrs. Cathleen Hogan. She recently won the award for Indiana State Art Teacher of the Year. This is an award that she earned by being recognized by her fellow art teacher peers.
Mrs. Hogan’s art room is a fascinating place. She has her room divided into various art works from around the world. For example, one section is a tribute to Chinese art (both 3-D and 2-D), another section is Egyptian statues, African folk art, Native American rugs and weavings, Australian aboriginal art, art from nature (such as bee hives and honey combs), Mexican paintings, African masks and optical illusions. Those all have special sections so that she can draw students’ attention to them when needed.
Mrs. Hogan’s career began in graphic design and therefore gives her a unique perspective in careers available to our students today in the art field.
Mrs. Hogan, who also teaches at West Vigo Elementary School and all together teaches over 700 students per year. That’s a lot of lives to touch each year.
The work that she is able to get her students to produce is absolutely amazing. She gets her students to think about detail, line, design, color scheme and texture all at the same time. The detail her students produce is fascinating, all because she has the ability to point out the details in the model work she shows them, which allows them to take the exemplar and modify it to their own artistic masterpiece.
We at Rio Grande are so blessed to have Mrs. Hogan as our own. We always knew she was an amazing art teacher; now she has the state award to prove it.
— Susan Shackelford, principal
Rio Grande School
Technicality hits cancer patient
I got lung cancer in 2010 and had surgery and chemotherapy, but approximately four or five months later it came back. So I went through more tests and another round of chemo and radiation.
In 2011, I never had any problem with Medicare and my insurance paying. But now, after more tests, my doctor believes that I still have active cells, so he wants me to go on a pill called “Tarceva” to see if this helps me. Tarceva is a form of chemo but it is in a pill form instead of liquid form, and has been FDA approved.
But come to find out, Medicare and my insurance won’t pay for this pill because it’s not administered by the clinic or doctor’s facility. Even if it is a form of chemo, it’s a prescription drug. The cost is $5,000 per month.
So Medicare and my insurance don’t have to pay because of a pathetic technicality.
So I worked my whole life, 47 years, and paid into Social Security and Medicare and pay for a supplement insurance every month. And now I need them and they don’t have to pay because of a stupid technicality that this form of chemo is not administered by the clinic.
— George Timothy Kruse
West Terre Haute
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