Raymond B. Hulse

1. Raymond B. Hulse Haverford High School Chemistry Teacher Graduate Student at the University of Pennsylvania

2. Haverford High School • Located in downtown Havertown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania • 1800 students in the four year high school • There are 15 teachers in the science department • The chemistry department has one main “state of the art” laboratory with sixteen interactive computers shared by five chemistry teachers. • We each teach six classes a year with 25-30 students per class

3. My Education Background Undergraduate work: • Kansas University - Chemistry • Kansas City Kansas Community College - Chemistry • Baker University - BS in Chemistry Graduate work: • Washington University - Environmental Engineering • Linden University –Business Administration • Widner University – Computer Programming • West Chester University – Computer Programs • University of Pennsylvania – Chemistry Education

4. Teaching Experience • Baldwin High School – Baldwin, KS 1963-1964 • Orchard Farm High School- Orchard Farm, MO 1964-1968 (Science Department Head) • Plymouth High School – Plymouth, NH 1981-1982 • Henderson High School & West Chester East – West Chester, PA 1982 Fall Semester • Sun Valley High School – Aston, PA 1983 Spring Semester • Haverford High School – Havertown, PA 1983-Present Teacher of the year 1987 - Teacher of the district 1991

5. Owned and operated landscaping business while in high school. 1954-1958 Restaurateur and caterer during college.1958-1964 and paid my entire way through college. Summer relief manager for Holiday Inns while teaching in Missouri. 1964-1967 Manager of environmental laboratories for Envirodyne 1967-1980. Completed over 1000 environmental projects from around the world. “Man of the Year” 1971 and 1976. National director of environmental research for Wapora. 1980. The “Meadowlands Commission” and the “Blue Route” were the two main hot issues. General manager/partner of ski resort in NH 1980-1983. (Now we just own the land it stood on because it burned to the ground in 1983.) Non-Teaching ExperienceI feel all the experiences I have had enhance my teaching.

6. My Teaching Style In general, I use the formal classroom style of teaching but I spice it up with a varity of other intriguing methods such as: • Interactive learning through experiments and activities. (Thus “Active Chemistry”!) • Cooperative learning in groups with models, worksheets and problem sets. • Enduring understanding through games, demos and magic shows.

7. The formal courses: AP Chemistry AP Chem Seminar Chemistry I Information Technology Active Physics The fun courses Chemistry of Cooking Science and Math Skills Earth and Space Radio Broadcasting Senior Project This next year I will be teaching six classes of “Active chemistry”. This is a new program we are starting this year for all students and for all levels. In the past years, I have also taught:

8. Sports Junior Varsity Golf Boys Tennis Team Cross Country Team Academics HiQ Academic Team Science Olympiad Enviroton Team Teams Coached at Haverford HighI believe in good competition even among the academic curriculum

9. Ski Club Ping-Pong Club Chess Club Theatrical Club All School play All School Talent Show Christen Prayer group Pro-Life Club Activities Sponsored at HaverfordI believe the more you are involved with a student outside the classroom the better relation you will have with that student in the classroom.

10. Golf Tennis Biking Hiking Flying Sailing Body Surfing Water Skiing Down Hill Skiing Cross Country Skiing Rock Climbing Chess Bridge Checkers Backgammon Card Games Board Games RC Car Racing RC airplanes Kayaking Windsurfing Movies My Interests“Jack of all trades - master of none”I include these so that we might find something in common.

11. Things Learned at MCEP this summer I will apply to my teaching next year • Pogil – I was very impressed how Dr. Roberts demonstrated this in his teaching of organic chemistry. I will integrate this into the “Active Chemistry” program. I just hope I can get my kids to do half the work that I did. • Lab-preps – I felt that I was far better prepared for the labs because we were required to do the pre-labs. I hope this will help my student to come to class prepared ready to do a lab. • Website – This was all new for me this year and I am really excited about trying to use an interactive website for my classes and activities.

12. My family As of 2005 • I live in West Chester, PA. My wife and I have been married 20 years. We both had been married before; so, we have a total of six kids and two grand kids. We did have three but my grandson, Harris, died last February. • Elizabeth my wife, is Social Work major at WCU. • Brian my oldest son (37), is living on his sailboat in the Florida Keys. • Aaron my 2nd oldest son (35), is a minister in North Little Rock, AR • Jesse my oldest stepson, is a English major at WCU • Rian my stepdaughter, is an accountant/office manager • Nathan my youngest stepson, is an ex-Marine • Daniel my youngest son (15) is a Sophomore at WC- East • Elaina my step granddaughter (12) is in the 7th grade at Fuguet. • Kyle my step grandson (6) is starting 1st grade at Glen Acers.

13. Born in Michigan Raised in Texas Went to school in Kansas Taught school in Missouri Worked in Environmental Research across the nation out of St. Louis Partner/general manager ski resort in New Hampshire Teacher in Pennsylvania Struck by Lightning Once Kidnapped Twice Shot Three Times Mistakenly picked up two hitch-hikers who had escaped from prison, robbed a bank and needed a ride to Canada Own a farm in Missouri that was homesteaded by my great grandfather in 1841 Who is this guy Raymond B. Hulse?

14. I leave you with this thought: You don’t know if you can do it until you try and if you try you may find you can do miracles; so, “be the miracle”. Bruce Almighty