Stephen Israel (SRV ’53)

I entered SRV in Second Grade and stayed through Sixth Grade (1947 through 1953). At SRV, my teachers; Mary Spiller, a visitor exchange teacher from Belgium, Betsy Gray, Wayne Higley, and Peg Nowell were role models that gave me a lifelong passion for the arts and sciences, the natural-and-built landscape and wildlife which all surrounded SRV. My SRV un-pressured participatory-education approach, anchored around compassion, kindness, fairness, and sense of belonging, had the following impacts upon my life, education and career…

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Stephen Israel’s Lifetime Achievement Award from Maryland Archaeology