The 'Doctor' Is In

摘要

His students call him "Doc Welsh," in deference to his degree in veterinary medicine. He plays with a bluegrass band on a homemade violin. To illustrate Bernoulli's principle, he has his students build and fly boomerangs. He likes amateur radio, woodworking, military history, and, of course, teaching. Patrick A. Welsh, a physics teacher at D.W. Daniel High School in South Carolina, is the Aerospace Education Foundation's 2005 national teacher of the year. Welsh has taught physics in Central, S.C., for the past 23 years and in 2005 received the Christa McAuliffe Memorial Award as teacher of the year from AEF, an affiliate of the Air Force Association. Welsh was presented with the award during the AFA National Convention in Washington, D.C., last September.