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humidifier. That's probably why the previousteacher left. I can hear him now. "I ordered aDEhumidifier, DEhumidifier.”I love learning and so I was a natural atteaching. Learning is such an enjoyableexperience, and teaching is a natural extension oflearning. You may think that you knoweverything about a subject but when you teach it,your students force you to continue learning.When the college learned that I had abackground in the theatre, I was asked to teach afilm technique class. Then "scene design" wasadded to my schedule. As a member of theActors' Equity Association, I was able to get freetickets to many Broadway shows. I would gettickets for my class (there were only six students)and then we would discuss how the sets related tothe needs of the play. They took the class asartists or designers but I taught them how toevaluate a play in terms of dramatic content. Theemphasis was on the needs of the play more thandécor. "Film Technique" was a required coursefor art majors, and yet no one in the departmentseemed to know what the class consisted of. Theprevious teacher had quit and left the country.On the first day of class, I discussed this dilemmawith the class. I gave them an assignment ofcoming up with ideas of what to do with the fourhours per week that we would be spending219