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Dear colleagues,

I am very pleased to announce that Toshiko and I decided to “tie the knot” on June 13th, right after the commencement. The official ceremony will take place in the MU quad and will be witnessed by Dr. Sharon Rosenkoetter and Dr. Carmen Steggell. There will be no party following the ceremony since we are in the midst of preparations to move out of the country. As some of you might already know, I got a research position at University of Bern, Switzerland, and we will be leaving the USA on June 19th.
We want to thank all of you for the encouragement and support to complete our degrees.

Cris Dogaru
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Cristian Dogaru, MD, PhD
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College of Health and Human Sciences
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331
322 Milam Hall /105 Bates Hall

how do you know you’re a preschool educator

[well, technically I am not (only) a preschool teacher, I am instructing college students to become good – and developmentally appropriate – early childhood educators]

– when you walk down the street you hum to yourself “The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah” all the way up to ten (“the ants go marching ten by ten, hurrah, hurrah/…/the ants go marching ten by ten/the little one stops and says ‘the end!’/and they all go marching down/to the ground/to get out/of the rain, boom, boom, boom…”

– when people are asking you “where are you going” you almost tell them “I’m going on A bear hunt

– you cross the streets only on the cross-marks and sing to yourself “Stop, look and listen/before you cross the street/Use your eyes, use your ears/Then you use your feet

– everybody you meet on the street is smiling at you, that because you’re herding a bunch of 4-year olds

– you habitually look in 15 directions at once, and can sustain a fluent conversation with an adult while settling down conflicts over a glue stick, getting kids to climb down the shelf, and yelling “get on the carpet square”

– you have glitter in your eyebrows, paint on your fingers, glue on your pants and various mismatched toys in your pockets

matematică

J. – 5 years old – is playing with his Pokemon cards (they are back in fashion, it seems). As we try to incorporate literacy and numeracy whenever possible, we start a discussion: “listen, you have four cards. If you gave two of them to a friend, what would happen? How many will you have left?”
After a thoughtful moment, the answer: “my sister would be very mad”