Mrs. Burke was my English teacher during my junior year at Copiague High School. She was an excellent teacher and taught with care and concern for her students, an abundant knowledge of her subject area and teaching strategies that engaged her students. For one particular lesson, teaching the poem “Richard Corey” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mrs. Burke played the Simon and Garfunkel song by the same name. It certainly grabbed our attention! The lesson itself and the theme of the poem - that fulfillment and happiness are not defined by money and the other trappings of material success - has clearly stayed with me for a long time… I’m seventy. Thank you, Mrs. Burke.
Joan Skelly, Class of 1969
