Joe Grinkewicz

went to peirce college and west chester state BSEd worked as a phila. school district sub. teacher for 3 years, taught 12 years in private schools, worked in Phila. school district administration for 22 years, currently teaching at Creative and Performing Arts HS in Philadelphia
Traveled throughout Europe, South America, Central America and parts of Africa. last summer we returned to europe for a few weeks and visited belgium, the netherlands and portugal. this summer, we went to ecuador and the galapagos islands. my wife took the bailout from the school district and retired while i still teach. just moved to old city. something we always wanted to do.
June 2019, finally retiring. Moved north to NoLibs last year. Going to travel some and then who knows?

earl howell and i were called the gold dust twins by mr. nojonas? our Junior Business Training teacher (how quaint) and we always assumed it was due to our blonde hair and irasciable behavior but now i'm not so sure. this year i was teaching about the Jim Crow era and i urged students to discover products that were still advertising throwbacks to that time (Uncle Ben's rice for example) a student brought in an ad from the 1930's or so about a cleaning product called the gold dust twins. i was a bit taken aback since it was probably the first time i heard that reference since olney. 2 little cherubs graced the ad and they would help you clean your house quickly and easily. strange reference.......strange teacher