By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff
Sun Nov 02, 2008, 06:39 PM EST
Don Roemer, affectionately known as "Doc" to his students and colleagues, spent 37 years in a job he loved.
"I loved it. I loved teaching," said Roemer, a Franklin resident who worked for 27 years as an English teacher at Wayland High School, and 10 years prior as an English professor at Northwestern University and Northeastern University.
Life felt a bit empty when he retired three years ago, so he decided to fill that hole by returning to his passion, he said.
For the past year, he has volunteered as a part-time teacher working alongside a few full-timers at Franklin High School, in a pilot program he proposed last October to Franklin Superintendent of Schools Wayne Ogden. Ogden is the former assistant superintendent of Wayland Public Schools.
"I really wanted very much to have something to do with education. I missed being with the kids. I may be old, but I have a lot of experience, a lot to offer," Roemer said.
"I never got tired of the teaching, I never got tired of the kids, but I did get tired of correcting papers," Roemer said.
As a volunteer, he gets the best of both worlds: giving students one-on-one academic attention, without having to pour through essays and tests, as well as a flexible, albeit, confusing rotating schedule, he said.
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