West Newsmagazine 5-6-20
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May 6, <strong>20</strong><strong>20</strong><br />
<strong>20</strong> I SCHOOLS I WEST NEWSMAGAZINE<br />
Holy Infant technology teacher chosen as <strong>West</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong>’s Teacher of the Year<br />
By KATE UPTERGOVE<br />
@WESTNEWSMAG<br />
WESTNEWSMAGAZINE.COM<br />
On Tuesday, April 22, during a Holy<br />
Infant Catholic School virtual staff<br />
meeting, Principal Rebecca McQuaide<br />
announced that computer teacher and<br />
technology coordinator Adam Meesey<br />
had been selected as <strong>West</strong> <strong>Newsmagazine</strong>’s<br />
Teacher of the Year.<br />
“I was very surprised. I was fighting<br />
back tears,” Meesey said, “especially<br />
when Mrs. McQuaide read the letters<br />
[nominating him]. I was very overjoyed.”<br />
Meesey has been teaching for 12 years<br />
– the whole time at Holy Infant – but he<br />
never dreamed that a school year would<br />
play out as this one has.<br />
“I always strive to have my A-game<br />
ready and be very prepared. But it’s funny.<br />
This year, there were a lot of things I did<br />
in the classroom that I never thought in<br />
a million years would [become] a necessity.<br />
But here we are, teaching from<br />
home,” Meesey said. “This year, we put<br />
into place student email so that they could<br />
email teachers or other students if they<br />
had questions or collaborative work.”<br />
Meesey said another thing he did was to<br />
help create spreadsheets of the many passwords<br />
that students need for the different<br />
Adam Meesey with the Holy Infant eighth grade basketball team.<br />
learning programs, etc. used in school.<br />
“At the beginning of the year, we gave<br />
a copy to their teacher and sent a copy<br />
home. Who would have thought that we<br />
would need those now?” he asked.<br />
But as Meesey knows, life is filled<br />
with unexpected twists and turns. His<br />
family adopted him from India. He was<br />
hired by Sr. Rosario Delaney. When Sr.<br />
Rosario retired, his cousin Becky was<br />
named to the position of principal, and<br />
this man born in India who admittedly<br />
has “no dancing experience found himself<br />
in unlikely scenario. Today, he’s the<br />
coordinator of the school’s annual Irish<br />
Dancing program and St. Patrick’s Day<br />
performances.<br />
Meesey said when he started at Holy<br />
Infant, he only knew that the Irish Dancing<br />
program was “a really big thing” at<br />
the school but that he knew nothing of<br />
how it was handled.<br />
“I don’t know how much you know<br />
about Holy Infant but we were founded<br />
in 1956 by the Irish Sisters of Mercy<br />
from Dublin. Sr. Rosario was the head<br />
[Source: Holy Infant]<br />
of the Irish Dancing program,” Meesey<br />
explained. “My first year here, they were<br />
talking about the person who used to do<br />
the music [for the program] who had<br />
since passed away, and they were trying<br />
to figure out who was going to help with<br />
the St. Pat’s celebration. I went to Sister<br />
and told her that if she needed help, I’d<br />
help. She said the school used CDs, I suggested<br />
an iPod.”<br />
The rest, as they say, is history.<br />
See TEACHER OF THE YEAR, page 45<br />
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