Thanks For Being Here - Remembering Ms. Marber

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Some teachers don't just teach you things — they show you who you are. Listener Nicole McDermott wrote this the night she found out her high school English teacher, Wendy Marber, had died — a caring educator who never went easy on her students, never stopped believing in them, and somehow shifted the way a teenager saw herself in a single hallway conversation. This one is for every teacher whose belief in a student has outlasted the classroom. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Thanks for being here, a short weekly pod to remind us of the many
0:05.7	essential and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday, I'll read a submission from a
0:12.3	listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Could be wedding vows or a bat mitzvah toast, a eulogy, or
0:17.6	retirement speech. We believe this is probably the loveliest way
0:22.0	to tap into our better selves
0:23.5	and remember our highest values.
0:26.2	We encourage you to share this podcast
0:28.2	each week with one person you love.
0:30.7	Maybe someone you miss and need to bring closer,
0:33.5	someone you want to feel your appreciation
0:35.8	or admiration or both.
0:38.4	This is thanks for being here.
0:47.1	This week's thanks for being here comes from a listener named Nicole McDermott.
0:52.0	Hi, Kelly, longtime listener, admirer of your work.
0:55.2	It's touched me consistently since your transcending video showed up in my email inbox.
1:00.7	I'm on a walk, ironically multitasking, and just listen to the go-to where you asked for the
1:06.0	thanks for being here contributions for teachers.
1:08.6	I went immediately to my Facebook to find this post from
1:11.3	2020. I was 40 when I wrote it for my high school English teacher. Thanks for considering it
1:16.7	and for all the light you bring to me. Onward, Nicole McDermott. So here is Nicole McDermott's
1:23.3	thanks for being here to a great teacher she had back in high school.
1:33.4	Tonight, I'm thinking about my high school English teacher, Miss Wendy D. Marber.
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