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BOSTON HERALD WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 2005 A life filled and fulfilled in a Dorchester classroom STAFF PHOTO BY TED FITZGERALD LIFE LESSONS: Widow Susan Noonan recalls fondly the years her husband spent teach- ing — and tirelessly advocating for children — at Dorchester High. Susan Noonan tried .her host to make her husband understand the riches they shared were more than suffi- cient. “He often expressed con- cern over things he couldn’t give me, she recalled. “And 1 would tell him, ' There ' s nothing I want that we don’t have; we have it all! ' We were rich in the things that money can ' t buy, the good things, the things that really matter. A Chi- cago na- tive, the former Susan Tolf met Ed . Noonan when she came here to work in Boston’s medical com- munity. He was a Mission Hill guy whose heart’s de- sire was to be a teacher. “I think he could have done just about anything,” she said. He was very tal- ented and had wonderful people skills. But teaching was all he ever wanted to do. He was meant to teach. The day before their wed- ding in 1975 he bought the Marshfield home where Su- san still lives and where, for 30 years, she would come to know scores of kids she ' d never meet, kids whose cares and hopes he would share with her when he re- turned from classrooms in the city. “It was our main topic of conversation,” she recalled. I knew them by their names. I knew how they were doing with their marks and what they were doing with their lives. Every Satur- day when we went shopping Ed would load up on snacks, then take them to school where he’d open his class- room early, letting the kids nibble while using com- puters. He loved doing that because it got them to school on time.” Noonan taught business skills to kids at Dorchester High. A lot of his students weren’t bom in this coun- try,” Susan noted. “So he de- signed programs for them. He taught them how to man- age a checking account, how to properly use credit cards, how to pay bills, how to es- tablish a budget. One of his students helped her mother buy a house through what she learned in Ed’s class. As the years rolled by they raised two sons of their own. “Ed made sure that we went out every Saturday night,” she remembers. “A really big time was a ham- burger and a beer, then play- ing whist with friends. And that’s the point I was always trying to make — the really good stuff isn’t fancy or ex- pensive. We always had fun, right to the very end.” Noonan was 54 when leu- kemia claimed his life 10 months ago. Though she thought she knew all of the classroom stories, Susan learned even more during the days sur- rounding his wake and fu- neral through whispered thanks and notes affixed to contributions for a scholar- ship in his name. One man told me his son is now a policeman and re- called how Ed brought him to a rifle range where he learned to shoot a gun,” she marveled. Someone else said, ‘I’ll never forget the kindness he showed when my mother died.’ I met kids whose lunches he bought every day. One of his stu- dents had a chance for a summer job but didn’t have the bus fare to go; Ed paid that bus fare all summer. “Another father sent a check following his son’s graduation, telling me, ‘If it wasn ' t for Mr. Noonan, my boy wouldn’t have made it. ' “It was really overwhelm- ing. Ed loved those kids.” Susan is now getting ready for another overwhelming” moment. It ' ll take place to- morrow at 5 p.m. at the edu- cational complex that used to be known as Dorchester High. That’s when The Ed- ! ward G. Noonan Jr. Business j Academy will be formally dedicated. “When he looked back on his own education, Ed rea- lized just how much a teacher can mean to a kid, and that was the kind of teacher my husband wanted to be,” she said. “Short changed? Never. I was a teacher’s wife and nothing could have made me prouder.” Joe FITZGERALD Bush defends nominee to GOP’s doubters By TOM BAUM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Presi- dent Bush pushed back against suggestions by some skeptical Republicans that Harriett Miers was not con- servative enough, insisting yesterday that his nominee to the Supreme Court shares his strict-constructionist views. I know her heart,” Bush told a Rose Garden news conference. “Her philosophy v on ' t change. Some commentators and activists — including Rush I imbaugh — have expressed disappointment with Bush’s selection of Miers, citing her lack of a judicial track record and complaining that Bush had passed over more promi- nent, proven conservatives. Bush suggested he would not release documents relat- ing to her work at the White House, saying it was “impor- tant that we maintain execu- live privilege, even as Dem- ocrats demanded more information on her role in ad- ministration decisions. He urged Democrats to give her a chance to explain her views of the law and Constitution at her confirmation hearing. The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, said information was needed on Miers’ role in forming poli- cies and decisions, including U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq. She’s a Bush loyalist, with little public record,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, (D- Mass.) “The president should STRICTLY SPEAKING: Bush says Miers shares his strict- constructionist views. refrain from invoking execu- tive privilege and give the American people a full and fair look at (her) record.” In welcome news to the White House, Miers won the unqualified support of one of the Senate’s top conserva- tives, Orrin Hatch, (R-Utah). “A lot of my fellow conser- vatives are concerned, but they don ' t know her as I do,” said Hatch, a former chair- man of the Judiciary Commit- tee. “She’s going to basically do what the president thinks she should and that is be a strict constructionist.” The term refers to justices who believe their role is to decide cases based on a close reading of the Constitution rather than ranging mo widely in interpretation. Bush asked the Senah act by Thanksgiving. Bay State activists scan IP r background on abortion. By LAURA CRIMALDI Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue held their fire — and their prais? — on Supreme Court nomi- nee Harriet Miers, saying they wanted to krgiw more, but gay rights supporters ex- pressed cautious optimism about her nomination. She’s been an integral member of the most anti- choice administration in modern history. The Ameri- can public deserves to know more about her judicial philo- sophy, said Melissa Kogut, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. As president of the Texas State Bar in the early 1990s, Miers urged the national American Bar Association to put the abortion issue to a referendum. At the time, ABA held a neutral stance on the issue; which Miers supported. I would want to lmow if she knows if a child in utero is a human being from the moment of conception.” said Marie Sturgis, executive di- rector of Massachusetts Citi- zens for Life. In a statement, U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Miers must eXj stitutjpnal interpn. ’’Without a mean change during the x tion hearings, there is i to know how Ms. views the Constitr whether she’s a strict . structionist in the mold Justices Scalia and Thoma or whether she will protect fundamental rights and liber- ties,” Kerry said. Miers also went on the rec- ord favoring equal civil rights for gays and lesbians during her successful 1989 bid for Dallas City Council. During the campaign, Miers filled out a Lesbian Gay Coali- tion questionnaire. She an- swered Yes to the survey question, “Do you believe that gay men and lesbians should have the same civil rights as non-gay men and women? “We are pleased that it ap- pears Ms. Miers, like most Americans, believe that gays and lesbians are entitled to the equal rights under the law, said Marty Rouse, cam- paign director for the gay- rights group MassEquality. The Associated Press contributed to this report. ■w
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