More great teachers

Ask any Sam alum and he or she will tell stories about great teachers they had at Sam. This is not just PR. It's a fact. Sam is large enough to attract great teachers and small enough that every Sam student is going to have the privilege of learning from them. Here's a good example. It's from a column written by 'Doc' Blakely in the Wharton (TX) Journal-Spectator:

"One of my agriculture professors at Sam Houston State University had such an impact on me that I still have flashbacks to some of his life lessons, especially with every spring garden. Dr. Shackelford was an East Texas boy who probably should never have left the farm but like he used to say, "A Grapefruit is just a Lemon who had a chance and took it."

Everybody called him affectionately 'Dr. Shack.' He was an agronomist and horticulturist. He loved to tell stories about his days growing up on a farm and how he was inspired to get off it."

If you have had your own story about a great teacher, we'd like to hear it.