ANNE SPEYER
English Teacher 1972 – 2001
Anne Villalon Speyer had a passion for English curricula. In dynamic, interactive, and fast-paced classroom discussions, Anne used literary sources as vehicles for examining her students’ own values and ideas as well as for developing their reasoning skills. Offering a voice of reason and thoughtfulness, she infused her students with an appreciation for life as well as for syntax.

Not apt to take a perfunctory answer, Anne would probe for further detail and analysis until she was certain her students had reached their potential. She loved an elegant turn of phrase even as she valued students who struggled to put their thoughts in writing, thus inspiring some students to become writers while she bolstered others to exceed their personal expectations.

If Anne’s classroom work touched many lives in positive ways, her long term commitment to Mount Greylock’s drama program helped even more. Under her direction many students wired their first Klieg lights, painted their first sets, reveled in their first grease paint, declaimed their first dramatic lines, belted out their first Broadway tunes to a cheering audience. Those memories of Anne Villalon Speyer will last her students a lifetime.