# This is what became of my favorite teacher.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 9, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444 "2016-05-09T22:12:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444/1 "2016-05-09T22:12:47Z")
I was in 8th grade in the late '50s, and my math teacher was Ralph David Delaney. In addition to being an unusually devoted teacher, I developed a special bond with him. I guess you could say I was the “teacher’s pet,” because math came so easily to me. I was the kid he always turned to, when nobody else could provide the correct answer . . . and I always could. He even appreciated it when I corrected him.
So he was my all-time favorite teacher, for other reasons as well. He taught us about so much more than math; he taught us about life. But I knew absolutely nothing else about him; to me he was just a wonderful teacher, nothing more. Until recently, I knew nothing about his extraordinary life . . . or years later, its tragic, senseless end.
[Here](http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Ralph-Delaney/231336419) is his story, which I only recently learned about. This story is cut off before its end. I’m working on finding the remainder.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444/2 "2016-05-09T23:08:33Z")
**panache** - I clicked on the link and ended up at a page asking me to click on something or do something - not gon’ do it! Is there a way to see your teacher’s story?
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444/3 "2016-05-09T23:19:15Z")
I was able to read it, but you really need to contact the newspaper and get the whole thing.
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444/4 "2016-05-09T23:19:53Z")
Social activist dedicated to helping the poor/crack addicted/malnourished/underserved, beaten to death at age 57 by a 22 and 26 year old. Both pled guilty and were sentenced to 15 years to life (pleading guilty took the death penalty off the table).
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444/5 "2016-05-09T23:23:50Z")
Edit - ninjaed.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444/6 "2016-05-10T00:01:59Z")
Well, crap. Sorry to hear it.
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-became-of-my-favorite-teacher/754444/7 "2016-05-10T00:52:14Z")
[Here’s summary about him](http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=DRD). I too am from Cleveland and I know he is remembered there to this day.