This cache is placed to honor Jim Ulrich who has taught and touched many lives in his 37 years as an Earth science teacher at Cortland HS. Jim has served the Cortland community not only as a teacher, but also as a baseball coach, mentor, and friend. He is always there with an easy smile, good advice, and a "great" pun or dad joke. He has never "metamorphic" rock he didn't like. His students grow to love him and appreciate how he helps them build self reliance and share their knowledge with letters to Uncle Cy Ence. They leave his classroom, but do not leave him behind. They share their jokes, handshales and smiles with him not just in their years at CHS, but beyond graduation - many have returned as fellow teachers or parents as their own children have gotten to have him as their teacher. They certainly never take him for "granite."
As he retires, he leaves an empty space in the hallway, but not in our hearts. He is the type of teacher that we all strive to become and the type of person we feel privileged to call a friend. We look forward to many more opportunities to raise a glass, play a hand of wizard, and to share good times with Jim. We "lava" this guy a lot and before we get too "sedimental," we just wish him a "gneiss" retirement. We "shale" not keep you any longer, rock on, my friend!
The Science Dept's of the year hike passed by the cache - I gave Jim the coords so he could find it and we could all be there to read the description to him... he has the unofficial FTF
Congrats to Bear13820, TundraWolf, and Star on the official FTF