Dear Larry,
I read with interest your column on Bernie Chazen in this month's District 9 bulletin. I was one of the fortunate students to have Bernie as a high school teacher at Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn. It was 1963, and it may have been Bernie's first year of teaching. I was in his honors geometry class, and every class was an adventure - high energy, and challenging. He didn't bother us with minutiae - while he assigned homework regularly, I think he checked it twic
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