Marjorie Winther: Lighting A Fire
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As a science teacher, Marjorie Winther has both entertaining and troubling times with her students, but when she brings them to the South she discovers a whole new side of them. Marjorie Winther has been performing stories and comedy for over ten years. She is the winner of the 2012 First Person Arts Grand Slam. Marjorie has been voted audience favorite at numerous First Person Arts story slams. She recently performed at the WHYY Connections Festival, The Women in Comedy Festival at Plays and Players and at the Risk! Show in the Free Library Author’s Event. She also performs stand-up comedy in clubs and at fund-raisers and corporate and community events. She was a finalist in Laff-A-Lot productions Philly’s Funniest contest. Veteran comic Paul Lyons calls here “warm, real and disarmingly astute.” When not performing, Marjorie designs and delivers corporate training programs and leads professional workshops. Before moving into the corporate world she taught middle and high school science in the Chicago Public Schools. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Beloit College and a Master’s Degree in English from Southern Illinois University. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.4 | I felt. |
| 0:07.6 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:28.1 | Hi, everyone. Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.5 | This week's story is from Marjorie Winther. |
| 0:32.5 | The story was produced with first-person arts and was recorded in May 2014 at the Fells |
| 0:37.3 | Planetarium in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as part of the Philadelphia Science Festival. |
| 0:47.3 | So, yeah, I used to be a teacher, a science teacher. My first year teaching, I accidentally set a little boy on fire. |
| 0:59.9 | And you're clapping for that. |
| 1:03.1 | We could be friends. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, like, what happened was I was teaching at the Anime Bullock Middle School |
| 1:09.1 | on the south side of Chicago. |
| 1:11.8 | And I wanted to be like Ellen. |
| 1:14.2 | I wanted to inspire people. |
| 1:17.5 | I wanted to be that kind of teacher. |
| 1:19.2 | I wanted the kids to be inspired, and I was fresh out of college, |
| 1:23.9 | so I had all the best theories about teaching teaching and I knew that the kids had to be |
| 1:30.3 | hands-on and they had to be engaged so like we made a clock out of a potato and a tornado |
| 1:38.3 | in a jar and you know the problem was like by third week, I had run out of ideas, and the kids |
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