Remembering Polly Fields
Former USN teacher Polly Stevens Fields passed away recently.
Our thoughts are with the family of Polly Stevens Fields, Ph.D., and the alumni whose lives she touched while teaching at 2000 Edgehill.
Some of you expressed your sympathy in comments on her Tennessean obit. You can read the view book comments here. Please feel free to leave a comment or share this article with your classmates. You can also make a donation in her honor or buy a paver in her name if you feel a special connection with Ms. Fields.
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Some of you expressed your sympathy in comments on her Tennessean obit. You can read the view book comments here. Please feel free to leave a comment or share this article with your classmates. You can also make a donation in her honor or buy a paver in her name if you feel a special connection with Ms. Fields.
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Virginia Goffaux8/23/2013 @ 7:37 AMI don't think any of us could forget our time in the classroom of the iconic Ms. Fields. She was a master at capturing the attention of even the least history-minded of us by giving us the most juicy romantic, dramatic and naughty details of the lives of the great heroes of Western Civilization. Our writing skills were also fine-tuned by her passions and unorthodox teaching style. I'll never forget the day Ms. Fields handed fresh green grapes out to the class and asked us to describe, in as much detail as possible, the sensation of squeezing the grape until it burst between our tongues and the roofs of our mouths - you can imagine how creative a bunch of uninhibited and somewhat horny (let's be perfectly honest here) teenagers were able to get with that one! To give us an idea of the type description she expected, she had given us a detailed account of one of her favorite tactile sensations - that of clean-shaven legs slipping between cool bedsheets at night. Definitely not your run-o-the-mill English composition teacher! Ms. Fields was as much a stickler for grammar as she was passionate about creative writing. I remember several ranting sessions she had about people who use nouns as adjectives. Her favorite example was that of the particularly loathsome term "Emergency Situation." We learned so much from Ms. Fields - about history, English, life, passion, humor. She loved her job. She loved her students. She was quirky, a little mad and tough as nails and we all loved her for it. Virginie Goffaux, Class of 1985
