Gary Ranalli

This is flamboyant French teacher Gary Ranalli arriving at school. He was green long before being environmentally conscious was cool. He would take his classes outside. He thought outside the box. He covered the curriculum with discipline, but still made class interesting and cool.

The above photo appeared in a yearbook, but not in that incarnation. I took the negative to my darkroom, and I projected the image onto photographic paper with the easel tilted. The net result was as below:

Graham See was the staff coordinator for the yearbook that year, and he labelled this pic "French is an uphill drag".

Gary thought nothing of inviting us to his house. His family was as egalitarian as his classroom. He had a child in the high chair, (a toddler) and the toddler said "Gary, I want a drink". I was mortified to hear a toddler call his father by his first name. It didn't faze Gary at all.