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Harry Levine

Oct 22, 1913 - Feb 16, 1983


Harry Levine was a soft spoken mentor to many.

Mr. Levine was a teacher and in the latter part of his career, a counselor.  He died at the age of 70, in 1983, in San Diego, California. His wife Naomi died in 1999, in Ohio.

The Levines are survived by their son, Michael P. Levine, Phd., (CHS '67), who currently resides in Mt. Vernon, Ohio and is a Professor of Psychology at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.


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12/09/17 10:22 AM #1    

Wayne Edward McNabb (1962)

Mr Levine was my German teacher.  I took German classes because the German scientists were really excelling and my father thought it would be a great idea for me to learn the language.  Coupled with that my grandfather was German and I thought I might make him happy if I learned German.  Mr. Levine would give us our weekly tests out of the text.  As I remember there were sentences and we had to fill in the correct word for the sentence.  Since I knew what the test was going to cover I thought why not just write the correct word in the book and save myself all that studying, I think it is called cheating.  Well I got some pretty good grades from the class and I did learn a lot of German in spite of myself.  That year I got hurt playing football and who should show up at my door to see how I was doing but Mr. Levine.  He spent at least an hour with me just talking and trying to make me feel better.  Who would have thought that he would even care what had happened to me, after all he was just my German teacher.  Well after the visit I stopped my cheating in class.  I also made an appointment with Mr Levine to confess my cheating.  I explained to him what I had done.  His response to me was this.  I know a lot of my students put the words in the sentence before the test,  but arn't you learning as you put the words in the sentence preparing for the test.  My job is to teach you German, and how you learn it is up to you, the main thing is that you learn the language not the grade.  Grades are not as important as the knowledge you gain from the assignment.  Well that was a lesson I have never forgotten.  I tried to use that example while I was teaching people in the work place, and in school.  Thanks for the great lesson in humanity Mr. Levine.

 


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