Faculty/Staff Column: Why Watching TV Shows is Good for Your Health
Mr. Kevin Manero, NPHS English Teacher
April 9, 2013
When I was about six years old, (circa the mid 1980s), I would religiously tune in to watch The Dukes of Hazzard on Friday nights on CBS. Often my grandparents would come over on Fridays, and they would watch the show that came on next… a little drama series called Dallas. Of course I loved watching... Read more »
The Pop of the Catcher’s Mitt – My “Insular Tahiti”
Kevin Manero, NPHS English Teacher / Knight Crier Advisor
February 12, 2013
Warning – If you are not a baseball fan – you should still keep reading. This is really not just a baseball article. For those who read my columns (both of you) I apologize for having written nothing since November 16. But with my annual seasonal affective disorder kicking in, my motivation just... Read more »
Take the Earbuds Out and Say Hello to Me!
Kevin Manero, NPHS English Teacher / Knight Crier Advisor
November 16, 2012
As students cavort, gambol, or plod through the hallways, sometimes they do so with an effete stride, and sometimes derring-do burgeons on their countenances after a great fait accompli in the classroom. Of course there is always a little raillery and persiflage, and also the occasional lachrymose high... Read more »
Five Things Sandy Taught Me
Kevin Manero, English Teacher -North Penn High School
November 2, 2012
Through experience, we learn. Ishmael learns much about the universe through his journey aboard Ahab’s ill-fated ship, and similarly, through my own much less ill-fated ride along Superstorm Sandy, I, too, have learned. Here are a few lessons I gleaned in Sandy’s wake: 1. I kind of prefer a world... Read more »
An Epic Marathon Over in Just 9 Innings – What Major League Baseball can Learn from Moby-Dick
Kevin Manero, NPHS English Teacher and Baseball Coach
October 6, 2012
With the Atlanta Braves’ loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in Major League Baseball’s first ever second wild card, one game playoff round (or whatever it is the baseball think tank has titled it) leaving a “damp, drizzly November” in my baseball soul, I found it high time to get to baseball-... Read more »
Why High School Football Matters
Kevin Manero, North Penn HS English Teacher
December 13, 2011
In the Norman Rockwell depicted small town America, communities gather in town around the Christmas tree for holiday festivities in December, and the town flocks to the local baseball diamond for the summer Founder’s Day picnic. In 1950s television sitcoms the townspeople sit around the barbershop... Read more »
Be the “Player,” Not the “Prospect” – Why Attitude Matters
Mr. Kevin Manero, NPHS English Teacher
November 13, 2011
Augie Garrido is a prominent college baseball coach who has led his baseball teams to more wins than any other coach in any sport in Division 1 athletics, including five College World Series Championships. In his book Life is Yours To Win, Coach Garrido writes about attitude: The attitudes and self perceptions... Read more »
From the Classroom to the Weightroom – The Importance of “Feeling the Burn”
Kevin Manero, English Teacher - NPHS
October 16, 2011
In Chapter 9 of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the increasingly devious Roger Chillingworth, as he exacts revenge on the man with whom his wife conceived a child. Hawthorne writes: “ So Roger Chillingworth—the man of skill, the kind and friendly physician—strove to go deep into... Read more »
At the Mercy of America’s Pastime
Kevin Manero, Faculty and Staff Contributor
October 9, 2011
One run… that’s what most people seem to want to talk about. One run. Why can’t a team that wins 102 games score one run in a game that determines their fate more than any of the 166 games played before it? Then, after a brief discussion of one run, most people turn the conversation to one player.... Read more »
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