I have been a history teacher all my life, beginning in sixth grade and retiring from Kean University.  Twenty five years ago I was asked to pick up an Advanced Placement Art History class for a retiring high school teacher, and discovered a new passion.  At Kean I helped develop a course in Western Cultural History that introduced students to a world most of them had ignored.  Taking Kean University freshmen to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their first time and having them come home excited and vowing to “take their mothers there” was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.