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tween a macabre humor production, a drunken circus, and
a long mathematics seminar, Ivanoski’s classes are always

entertaining and relieving in such a stressful area of study.
It is unfortunate that so few students lack senses of hu­
mor, and have half of Ivo’s jokes fly over their heads. From

every student who has ever had the privilege of having
him as a teacher, I have heard one unanimous cry: “Mr. I
rules.”
In 1991 a man arrived on campus that truly embod­

ied the epitome of the well traveled, experienced, modern
teacher of the 1990’s. Mr. Rob Crawford, whose life has
already been enough to fill four or five existences, has

truly done it all. After his graduation from Fort Lauder­
dale High School in 1979 (where he constantly beat up that churns out Presidential Scholar after
Pine Crest students that showed up at his parties) Mr. Presidential Scholar and annually sends hun­
Crawford earned a swimming scholarship at the Univer­ dreds of students off to great universities.

sity of Southern California. After missing his opportunity Schools are about the teachers and the stu­
to swim in the Olympics as a result of the American boy­ dents. I know when I recall memories of high
cott of 1980, Crawford transferred to Washington and Lee school ten years down the road, I will think

University in Virginia to study Asian languages. He spent of Dr. Perez sending me to the back of the
a year at the Rikkyo University of Tokyo on a Fellowship, lunch line on my first day. There’s no doubt
during which he traveled all over Southeast Asia, and then that I will recall Mr. I’s geometry class: we
enrolled in the University of Washington at Seattle where had a special bond because the last three let­

he received a Master’s Degree in international economics ters of our surnames were “ski” and our fa­
in 1986 and a Law Degree in 1987. While in Washington vorite band was Blondie. It’s all about the
D.C. presenting a project to the Pentagon, Crawford was teachers, so let’s start giving apples.
approached by an impressed CIA superior, who offered

him a position as a Naval Intelligence Liaison to the Na­
tion Security Council for the Long-range Strategic Stud­
ies Project. “A big name for a boring job,” says Crawford.
After four years with the CIA, Mr. Crawford mysteriously

started teaching at Pine Crest. Humbly settled in his place
as a social studies teacher, Crawford is in the process of
giving back to the community that he has been a part of

since his days of swim camp under Jack Nelson. After all,
it was on a PC grad night in 1991 that Mr. Crawford met
his future wife and fellow teacher Mrs. Crawford, whom
he married in 1993. He names Mr. Sessman, another fa­

vorite teacher of PC students and a seasoned veteran, as
his idol: “if I could be half the teacher that Mr. Sessman
is, I would consider myself a success,” says Crawford, co­

sponsor of the Pine Crest Fight Club 2000.
It’s not buildings that make schools. It’s not money