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Joyce Anderson, a member of the Conch Stomp String Band and a resident of North Palm Beach, plays the fiddle, as her
husband, John, plays acoustic guitar during the NatureScaping event at MacArthur Beach State Park in North Palm
Beach last Saturday.


Teacher
From page Al


ning Teacher Award,
according to a press
release.
 He was named Outstand-
ing Motivator in 1997 by
the Westinghouse Talent
Search, the Dade County
Science Teacher of the Year
in 2001 and the Radio
Shack 2002 National Sci-
ence Teacher of the Year.
 In 2007, Mr. Horgan was
selected as Palm Beach
County's Science Teacher
of the Year.
 Mr. Horgan has been
married 21 years to wife
Jennifer, a local second-
grade teacher at Frontier
Elementary School in Loxa-
hatchee, and they have one
son, Stephen, 15, who
attends Suncoast Commu-
nity High School in Riviera
Beach.
 "Michael is an inspira-






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tion to both
his students
and also his
peers," said
Wayne
Gent ,
Dwyer prin-
cipal, in a
school dis-
trict press
release. "He
offers a Michael L.
world of Horgan
experience
to his stu-
dents and keeps them
motivated with meaningful
land enjoyable assign-
ments."
 A typical hands-on
assignment in his biology
class would be to ask his
students to identify an ani-
mal by looking at the skulls
of eight different animals.
 Students would have to
look at several variables,
including skull dents and
teeth patterns, in order to
identify the animal, he
said.
 It is a puzzle for the chil-
 dren, and one they enjoy,
 he said. When the "switch
 goes off," he added, it satis-
 fies his teaching experi-
 ence.
 "That happens a lot and
 everybody learns from the


"Michael is an inspiration to both his students
and also his peers."


Wayne Gent
principal, Dwyer High School


hands on," Mr. Horgan
said. "I try to do different
things."
 He said he and his wife's
careers are "a great lifestyle,
and you get a lot done,"
and added that he also
coaches swimming in his
spare time and loves fish-
ing.
 "I was born with cystic
fibrosis, so we couldn't
have many kids, and I wish
I had a bigger family," Mr.
Horgan said. "But when
you coach kids, they
become part of your
extended family, and they
are with you for three to
four years, from about age
7 or 8, to between 10 and 12
years."
 He tries to raise aware-
ness about cystic fibrosis
by being a role model for
transplant patients and
mentoring them.
 "I had a double lung
transplant at Miami Jack-
son in 2000," Mr. Horgan
said. "Everybody scratches
each other's backs."
 Cystic fibrosis is an
 inherited, progressive
 degenerative disease,
 which mainly affects
 organs, such as the lungs,
 he said.
 "Michael is always will-
 ing to go that extra mile to
 help a fellow educator," Mr.
 Gent said. "Mike Horgan is
 everything and more one
 would want in a teacher of
 the year."
 This year, Mr. Horgan
 was selected to represent
 Dwyer in both the school
and county Teacher of the
Year Program.
 As county Teacher of the
 Year, Mr. Horgan will be
 invited to participate in a
 state department of educa-


tion roundtable discussion,
as well as attend an awards
ceremony sponsored by
Macy's department store.
 The roundtable and
awards ceremonies will
take place in July, with the
date yet to be determined,
Mr. Horgan said.
 "As Palm Beach County's
Teacher of the Year,
Michael will be presented
$750 by Macy's, and his
school will receive $250,"
according to the release.
 "I enjoy teaching," Mr.
Horgan said. "It reaffirms in
what you believe: having
hands-on lessons and get-
ting good feedback from
parents and getting recog-
nition."
 He said he does not think
he will ever retire com-
pletely.
 "When I retire from
 teaching, I'll go into coach-
 ing some kind of swimming
 lessons," Mr. Horgan said.
 "I won't ever retire, and it's
 not in my family to retire.
 My mom is still coaching at
 82. I don't think it's some-
 thing I would enjoy."
 He said all his accom-
 plishments would not have
 been possible without the
 support of his family,
 school staff, students and
 the principal.
 "Any kind of work I do is
 only because of family," Mr.
 Horgan said. "They defi-
 nitely help me and support
 me, especially the coaching
 deal, with all the traveling
 involved.
 "I don't dread waking up
 in the morning," he said.
 "It's a fun job and you have
 summer vacations. You get
 to do all your traveling,
 fishing and everything else
 during that time."


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