Those three words are faith, grace and strength," said Tejan Hichkad, Amanda's husband. "The words that come to mind about how she approached it actually goes back to a phrase she came up during her treatment. After her diagnosis, she went through treatment and the cancer went into remission for three and a half years before returning in 2012. Hichkad was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2008 shortly after giving birth to her youngest son. Hichkad received services from Cancer LifeNet during her treatment and her family continues to support the organization. The walk is named in honor of the late Amanda Hichkad, a Bel Air wife and mother of three boys who died from cancer in September 2014. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.May 9-It's back! The 10th Annual Amanda Hichkad CCA Celebration Walk takes place May 13 in Bel Air. Whatever the ways stupidity, ineptitude, whatever the problems and frustrations of teachers and pupils, something very exciting is going on in each of the classrooms on each of the floors all at the same time - education is going on. In another - committee reports on slum clearance. In another - a hum of voices and toned French conjugations.
In one - a lesson on the nature of Greek tragedy. An older colleague tells her, walk through the halls, listen at the classroom doors. There's a section towards the close of the book when the young teacher despairs she hasn't been able to make a difference in her students' lives. The very title has become a metaphor for bureaucratic nonsense. "Up The Down Staircase" sold more than 6 million copies - was made into a popular film.
It was both an alarm bell and a love letter told in a series of notes and memos that range between the ridiculous and the stirring. Her 1965 bestseller "Up The Down Staircase" told of a new teacher's first year in a public high school that was tough, gritty and chaotic before school bureaucrats began to say diverse. She died yesterday in Manhattan at the age of 103. So Bel Kauffman wrote a book that taught the world. What happened - did you rob a bank? No, he said, a grocery store. She liked to tell a story about a student who came in late. Bel Kaufman was a substitute teacher who bounced between public high schools in New York because her Ukrainian accent was considered a little thick.
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