{"id":2052,"date":"2021-06-20T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2020-21\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:44:24","slug":"vale-ms-rogow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2020-21\/vale-ms-rogow\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale, Ms. Rogow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\nSo went the familiar chorus that began every Latin class with Ms. Rogow. After 21 years of teaching Latin, French, ancient Greek, and Classical civilisations at North Toronto CI, and experiencing all five editions of the Cambridge Latin course to date, Ms. Rogow is now retiring.\n

\nMany students\u2019 love of Classics first truly began in Ms. Rogow\u2019s classroom, but what about Ms. Rogow herself? For her, it was learning about Greek and Roman ancient myths and legends in grade 6 of elementary school, growing up in New York City, that hooked her. This set her on a path to learn Latin and Greek, and more about Ancient Greek and Roman mythology. While these subjects were not being offered in her high school, she was able to study Classics courses in university. As many at NT might know, Ms. Rogow was part of the first class of women admitted at Yale, when Yale first introduced co-education. She was attending a local college and had an urge for something new. She recalls from weekend visits to her boyfriend attending Yale (the same person she is still married to): \u201cI could see that Yale had a really great community which I was very interested in being a part of. It also had an outstanding philosophy department, and I had already decided that that was what I wanted to major in. So when Yale went co-ed I thought \u2018Yes, this is for me.\u2019\u201d\n

\nHer interest in teaching led Ms. Rogow on a journey to attain a life centered around teaching and learning. \u201cI just wanted to keep learning, and sharing what I was learning.\u201d However, she initially thought high school was not for her. \u201cI thought I was going to teach elementary school, and then I would be like that wonderful teacher I had in grade six.\u201d But as she remarks now, \u201cOf course, [high school] turned out to be absolutely perfect for me.\u201d\n

\nWhen asked what her favorite part of teaching was, she said, \u201cI have a lot of favourite things about teaching.\u201d She loves working with students, making a positive difference in other people\u2019s lives and shaping \u201cwho they are, what they are interested in, and what they are capable of.” Another thing she loves is \u201cworking with [her] colleagues at North Toronto\u2026 because [it] is a really amazing community.\u201d Finally, she says that \u201cbeing able to learn and deal with sophisticated concepts and ideas and languages and literature\u2026 is such a privilege.\u201d\n

\nMs. Rogow has taken in generations of students who entered her class as children, and left as confident and capable adults, \u201cor proto-adults anyway,\u201d as Ms. Rogow puts it. Ms. Rogow and her classroom were a safe haven for many students. During Latin classes the room was bustling, perhaps filled with students and their terrible acting, falling to the floor draped in tunics, and speaking exaggeratedly in Latin. Other times students were singing perfect verb endings to the tune of O Canada, or simply reading aloud passages and translating. At lunchtime it might have been quiet, but chances are there were a few students watching and learning as Ms. Rogow scrawled ancient Greek across the board, a course she offered voluntarily, and taught entirely in her free time. \n

\nEvidence of the passion Ms. Rogow and her students share was visible everywhere: in posters, Classical quotations, student projects, the chariot in the corner, even the agri-COLA bottle. Then there were the intangible things: certamen, Interlicious, \u201coperatunities,\u201d conferences, and trips abroad that Ms. Rogow has organized throughout her time at North Toronto, so that students\u2019 experiences could be expanded beyond the classroom. \n

\nShe has stayed committed to teaching those same students at lunchtimes, after school, through weekends and holidays, breaks, summers, and pandemics. Iva-Mari Miskulin, a current grade eleven student, points out that when school was shut down and learning went online in March of 2020, \u201cshe was the only teacher I knew that did actual synchronous learning.\u201d Even now, she teaches ancient Greek online to me, a single student, and continues to make the best of google meets\u2019 chat and whiteboard features \u2013 as painful as it is for writing Greek letters. If this article attempted to include everything Ms. Rogow has done for the NT community it would span pages and pages, and it is for this reason that she has been awarded the Coach John Taylor Award this year, the values of which she embodies and an honour she wholly deserves. Ms. Rogow\u2019s love of teaching and of Classics is easy to see in her commitment and the students that flock to her, creating a vibrant community in NT\u2019s Classics nook. \u201cMs. Rogow made a home for so many students through Classics, and worked tirelessly to make learning a rewarding experience,\u201d says NT alumna Erika Sakaguchi. Indeed, Ms. Rogow has shown that Classics is by no means just a thing of the past, because how could it be when it has connected and revitalized so many people.\n

\n\u201cWhen I first stepped into Latin in grade nine, I could see whenever she taught us how much she loved the language, and loved sharing it with us,\u201d recalls alumnus Joshua Chong from his time with Ms. Rogow. \u201cShe never stops learning.\u201d He notes how other than the gift of Latin and other languages, she\u2019s given him curiosity, and says \u201cI didn\u2019t just learn Latin, I learned so much more.\u201d Ms. Rogow took all us clueless niners and gave us direction, knowledge, and most of all, as Josh says, curiosity, the ability to face the world and relish in everything we don\u2019t yet know, with the foundation of Classics at our feet and an excellent teacher at our back.\n

\nMs. Rogow leaves NT students the same message she leaves all her students: \u201cFollow your passion. Try to orient your life around things that you really care about, and you\u2019ll find a way to make a living out of that. Explore the things that are really important to you, and inspire you, and motivate you, and make that your guide.\u201d In retirement Ms. Rogow hopes to teach Latin in the Saturday morning program to make Latin available to students, to stay part of the Classics teachers community, to keep working with the Ontario Classics federation \u2013 a group that promotes Classics in Ontario, and to continue collaborating to create French curriculum. \u201cIn addition to that,\u201d she says, \u201cI would just like to have a lot of time to read, ride my bike, be with my family and friends, and travel;” some places on her bucket list are Istanbul, Viena, and Prague. This summer, Ms. Rogow will be working with a small team of NT alumni to create a collection and digital archive of Classics at North Toronto.\n

\nMs. Rogow singularly held up the Classics program at North Toronto, and with her departure comes its end. However, during her time here, she ensured that Classics will live on in all of her students. We thank you, Ms. Rogow, from the bottom of our hearts, for everything you have done, for your infectious love of Classics, for your incredible patience, empathy, steadfastness, and for sharing your time and wisdom with us all for as long as you have. Gratias maximas tibi agimus! We wish you all the best.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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