Letter: Joan Wallace showed kindness as DOE teacher

I was sorry to read about the passing of Joan Wallace, the wife of Riley Wallace (“Wife of coach Riley Wallace treated all like family members,” Star-Advertiser, Stephen Tsai, Nov. 29).

I worked with her at Washington Intermediate School in the 1980s, when she was a special education teacher who worked with emotionally impaired teenagers. Her kindness and patience with this difficult group of students were exemplary. She truly was the best of the best in the state Department of Education.

Jim Wolfe

Nuuanu

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