Dear Source:
I live in Northern Virginia, I recently finished my bachelor’s in Aviation management at Hampton University and I am currently pursuing my master’s in Business administration. I currently work for the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority. Mr. Woods has always been a strong influence in my life and many of my classmates. He was always available to talk and give the best advice he could. I am so disappointed that he will not be able to even receive the graduation invitation I sent him, just so he could smile and let me know how proud he is of me. I feel like I have lost a father but know there are individuals who feel like they have lost more. I Look at this picture you have posted in this article and it is what he was … A smiling Woods, never appeared like his world was ever troubled. He taught me chemistry in central High School in 1998 and though I was almost late to every class… I never was to his. Even the students who were failing still came to his class… and it wasn’t because we loved chemistry but it was his teaching style. There was no other with the charisma that would approach the subject the way he did and still made time during, before or after classes for students with personal or educational problems. Alan Woods, there will never be another nor should there be because his memory should remain preserve always in our mind because we are not remembered by who we were but what we have done in this world.
Ken Lett
Virginia
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