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Photographic news clipping titled: "Following In Footsteps".
Caption reads: "Teacher Janice Blackwill, standing and Rio Hondo College
student Angela Garza, right, instruct Cresson Elementary School student Raul
Alcocer in Blackwill's DHH class. Story by Tract Garcia, Staff Writer.
Article Body reads: "Norwalk, Rio Hondo College student Angela Garza fondly remembers her days at Cresson Elementary School in Norwalk, mostly because of the lessons she received as a student in Janice Blackwill's class. As a youngster in Blackwill's DHH (deaf and hard-of-hearing) class, Blackwill could always be counted on for support, Garza said, and encouraged all her students to do their best in spite of their handicaps. It was because of the years she spent with Blackwill that Garza decided to become a teacher. Now she has returned to Cresson to learn more about managing a classroom as part of Rio Hondo's AmeriCorps Teacher Preparation Program. Garza is about one of about sixty Rio Hondo College AmeriCorps students who are dispatched to local elementary schools to give them a taste of what it's like to be a teacher and handle a classroom while earning their credentials. "I always looked up to Ms. Blackwill and wanted to become a teacher just like her because I want to give other deaf students what she gave me," said Garza, who spoke through an interpreter.