Bonjour, Welcome to My Home Page. Hi, I'm Diane (then and now) or as my students call me, Miss C or just plain Mademoiselle since I am their French teacher. Most people call me Di, sometimes Lady Di, and only a few special people know me as Deedee.

I have been teaching high school French & Spanish for 26 years! Teaching has come a long way since I graduated from AHS 1972 and now my students' assignments can be found via the internet. Visit my assignment page and see what high school French is doing now. I have learned to make web pages from many of my students and in doing so I have taught them how to make French Digital Portfolios.
I have to give credit to my teachers at Arlington High School for all the things that they taught me. My French teachers were terrific and that is the reason why I became a French teacher because of Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Stockman, and Mrs. Judy Williams.
I also learned how to sew in high school. I have made many costumes for our high school plays, mended football and hockey uniforms, fixed cheerleader uniforms, and many more. I make clothes for my mother, but most of all I make my Goddaughter's halloween costume every year.

Here is Danielle at 4 yrs. old dressed as Snow White. This was one of my favorite costumes that I have made. So far, she has been Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, A Princess, and Sleeping Beauty. Danielle is presently 11 yrs. old and she calls me Deedee.

I have an identical twin sister, Linda. Can you tell us apart? Sometimes we look very much alike; I have to look twice to decide who is who in these pictures.

Linda has lived all over the world with her husband and her daughter Danielle: Texas, Australia, NJ, England and presently Texas, again. With e-mail we can keep in touch daily! Here is a poem that I wrote in 1993 when she was in Australia.

Walls
Oh Walls of my mother's flesh
You protected us inside of her
One egg split in two, you still surrounded us
Close, together, behind you for seven months

Oh Walls of the incubators which separated us
Two months of pounding and kicking you
Yearning to get out
Not wanting to be apart

Oh Walls of grammar school
How you frightened us
Our tears stopped them from drawing us apart
By your singular thick opaqueness

Oh Walls of high school
You were our maze
Our challenge to find each other
You gave us courage to be divided

Oh Walls of the earth
Your strong equatorial barrier
How dare you try to separate us
You are intangible but crossable

Oh Walls you are not important anymore
We are not afraid
You have taught us that you were never an obstacle
We will always be close in heart