Respected Colleague

From: HorneD@meridian.k12.il.us
Subject: Mr. Coate
Date: March 16, 2007 1:42:47 PM CDT

I do want to make some statements about my long-term friendship with Mr. Ralph Coate.

It has been my privilege to have taught across the hall from Mr. Coate for twenty-nine years. We are close friends and have mutual respect for each other as colleagues. Over the last three decades, I have learned so much from Mr. Coate. He is an excellent teacher who inspires his students to excel. His retirement after forty-four years of dedication to Macon and Meridian High Schools will leave a void in this faculty and in my heart.

Mrs. Debbie Horne